The International Catholic Migration Commission
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
North America   Libya Hundreds return to Libya in desperate bid to reach Europe by boatGENEVA, 17 May 2011 (UNHCR<)⎯Hundreds of people who had fled Libya for Tunisia and Egypt in recent weeks, have crossed back into Libya with the intention of boarding boats to reach Europe. Among them are refugees, including members of the Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean communities in the camps at Shousha near Tunisia’s border with Libya.Read more< Vatican aide recalls shipwrecked African migrants: Highlights Pope's words at Yad Vashem MemorialVATICAN CITY, 11 APRIL 2011 (Zenit<)—A Vatican spokesman is remembering in prayer the hundreds of people who died in recent weeks in the Mediterranean Sea while fleeing conflicts in North Africa. Since the unrest and conflict began in various countries of North Africa in February, close to 22,000 migrants, the majority Tunisians, have arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa, reported the Italian interior ministry.Read more< A Catholic's perspective on immigration and US/Mexico relationsWASHINGTON, 25 March 2011—Bishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, California, leads the USCCB conference on migration. He spoke at a conference at the Catholic University of America where bishops of Mexico were present, along with Mexico's ambassador to the US.Read more< Haiti Deportations to Haiti should be halted, say USCCB Migration Committee Chair and Chairman of Catholic Relief ServicesWASHINGTON, 7 February 2011 (USCCB<)—In a joint letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano February 7, Archbishop José H. Gomez, Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, and Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, chairman of the Board of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international humanitarian agency, expressed opposition to the recent resumption of deportations to the nation of Haiti.Read more< Home of happiness: Catholic Iraqi refugees get new startLITTLE ROCK, 8 January 2011 (Arkansas Catholic<)—"Do you know what I am going to do to you?" The cold steel of the pistol against his temple and the acrid smell of gunpowder in the air, Ayman Abbosh knew what the terrorist was going to do, but he dared not answer.Read more< Archbishop Gomez praises DREAM Act progress in HouseLOS ANGELES, 12 December 2010 (CNA<)—Archbishop Jose H. Gomez has praised the passage of the DREAM Act in the House of Representatives, and called on the U.S. Senate to also pass the immigration reform measure.Read more<  |
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