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   United States Archbishop calls for new thinking on migrationWASHINGTON, 2 June 2010 (Spero News<)—Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Travelers, opened the Regional Consultation of the American Bishops' Conference on Migration, which is focused on responding better to the needs of migrants and refugees in the Americas, confronting the deeper causes of migration through a more efficient coordination of services, pastoral care and advocacy policies.Read more< Migration chairs of Mexican and U.S. Bishops’ Conferences issue joint statement on President Calderon’s visit to the United StatesWASHINGTON, 19 May 2010 (USCCB<)—Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, and Archbishop Rafael Romo Muñoz of Tijuana, Mexico, head of the Mexican Episcopal Conference Migration Commission, issued May 19, a joint statement on the occasion of President Felipe Caderón of Mexico visit to the United States.Read more< United States Regional bishops' consultation on migration to meet June 2-4 in WashingtonWASHINGTON, 17 May 2010 (USCCB)—Representatives of bishops’ conferences of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and other Latin American and Caribbean countries will convene June 2-4 in Washington for the 2010 Regional Bishops’ Consultation on Migration. Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People at the Vatican, and Archbishop Pietro Sambi, papal nuncio to the United States, are also slated to attend.Read more< United States US bishops advocate mending broken system and improving economic development in poor countries16 May 2010 (OSV)—In light of the recent debate over Arizona's new immigration law and responses to Archbishop Jose H. Gomez's essay "Archbishop: Catholics' role in immigration reform solution" in our May 2 issue, Our Sunday Visitor asked Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the US bishops' Committee on Migration, to answer some of our readers' toughest questions about the Church's position on immigration.Read more< United States Hard times for Iraqi newcomersBOSTON, 19 April 2010 (Boston Globe<)—Awatif Albadri survived the Iraq War and the deaths of her husband in a car crash and her son by assassination. On an overcast morning last month, nearly a year and a half after arriving here with three children, she was in court trying to avert homelessness.Read more< United States From Vietnamese refugee to U.S. representative1 April 2010 (CNN<)—It was April 1975 when I was packed into a military transport plane with two of my siblings as the Vietnam War ended. We left Vietnam to escape communist rule and eventually, take on an additional identity.Read more<  |
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