Immigration

Amid concern over immigration enforcement raids in the area, the Bishop of San Bernardino, California, on July 8 issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the faithful if they fear for their well-being.

Despite 74 per cent of Canadians supporting refugees’ right to seek safety, a lack of understanding about immigration nuances looks to be fuelling skepticism and threatening Canada’s humanitarian spirit, according to a new Ipsos survey released on World Refugee Day.

The first major bill tabled by the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney is raising concern among both civil rights and refugee advocacy groups.

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) is nearly six months into a three-year pilot project designed to improve the quality of life and social integration of migrant seniors.

President Donald Trump on March 15 invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself broad authority under a wartime law to deport people allegedly associated with a Venezuelan gang, sparking a legal battle and prompting concern from Catholic immigration advocates.

Pope Francis’ letter rebuking US President Donald Trump for failing to respect the dignity of migrants who move to the United States seeking to escape oppression comes in the wake of questionable theologizing by Vice-President JD Vance.

The Trump administration has been very busy and has, not unexpectedly, generated much discussion and to be sure controversy.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance.

Pope Francis is urging U.S. Catholics and people of goodwill to not give in to “narratives” that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to migrants and refugees.

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago reassured migrants in his archdiocese that reports of a possible mass deportation by a new administration in Washington that would target the Chicago area “wound us deeply.”