Refugees are looking north for asylum
Canada can expect to see more asylum seekers crossing its 9,000 km, mostly unguarded, border with the United States as enforcement toughens at the U.S.-Mexican border and President Donald Trump continues to issue executive orders to restrain refugee arrivals, Catholic refugee advocates have told The Catholic Register.
OTTAWA – Church groups calling for the scrapping of the Safe Third Country agreement in response to U.S. President Trump’s refugee policies are likely to remain disappointed.
WASHINGTON– Local Catholic Charities agencies are scrambling to save staff jobs as they respond to President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily suspending the country's refugee resettlement program.
Trump drops Obama administration's transgender bathroom fight
Washington D.C. – President Donald Trump’s administration will stop fighting in court to implement the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom policy, leading to applause from a religious freedom legal group.
Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian
A Catholic priest who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth has written to President Trump offering to surrender his American citizenship so that Trump could confer it on a Syrian refugee who would be barred under the president’s controversial order banning travellers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries.
Immigrant teacher fears Trump undermining what she has fought to lift up
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An immigrant teacher and White House honoree fears President Donald Trump is undermining the community she has fought to lift up.
Trump interview throws spotlight on Christian broadcaster
WASHINGTON – When they got the get — the third one-on-one interview with President Trump — staffers at CBN News took a moment for high-fives to celebrate.
Outspoken Texas bishop welcomes appeals court ruling against refugee ban
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country's refugee resettlement program.
Arizona mother deported from U.S. taken in by shelter just across border
PHOENIX – The mother who made headlines as possibly the first unauthorized immigrant to be deported from the United States under President Donald Trump's immigration orders was being sheltered overnight by the Kino Border Institute in Nogales, Mexico, Feb. 9.
WASHINGTON – Receiving a prestigious human rights prize, an Iraqi lawmaker who gained international attention for her oppressed Yazidi religious minority decried the Trump administration's “unfair” executive order on immigration.
Canadian, U.S. Catholic scholars unite to condemn Trump actions
Catholic colleges and universities in Canada and the United States have condemned the Trump administration’s policy of closing America to refugees, banning all travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and building a wall along the Mexican border.
OTTAWA – Canadian organizations concerned about climate justice are preparing to resist any “Trump effect” on the environment.
U.S. bishops urge Trump to protect religious freedom
WASHINGTON – Saying “religious freedom in America has suffered years of unprecedented erosion,” U.S. Catholic bishops have posted an online letter for Catholics to send to President Donald Trump urging him to sign an executive order promoting religious freedom.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis could be meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at as early as the end of May.