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   Canada Immigration minister promotes refugee planTORONTO, 31 March 2010 (Toronto Sun)<—Immigration minister Jason Kenney is on the road pushing for a new refugee selection process that he says will lead to speedy decisions and protect those in need.Read more< United States Catholics must combat ‘shadow industry’ of human trafficking, Archbishop Vlazny saysPORTLAND, 15 January 2010 (CNA<)—Human trafficking is a “shadow industry” and an example of slavery’s persistence, Archbishop of Portland, Oregon John Vlazny has said. Discussing how Catholics can help combat the crime, he recommended former slave St. Josephine Bakhita as a patroness for its victims.Read more< United States Bishops urge special status for Haitians in USWASHINGTON, D.C., 15 January, 2010 (Zenit<)—The U.S. bishops are supporting President Barack Obama's move today to allow Haitians currently in the United States to remain in the country for the next 18 months.Read more< United States Obama proclaims January 2010 'National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month'WASHINGTON, 4 January 2010 (WHPS<)—The United States was founded on the principle that all people are born with an unalienable right to freedom -- an ideal that has driven the engine of American progress throughout our history. As a Nation, we have known moments of great darkness and greater light; and dim years of chattel slavery illuminated and brought to an end by President Lincoln's actions and a painful Civil War.Read more< Turkey ICMC joins US officials in promoting refugee resettlement to the USTURKEY, 5-13 November 2009—ICMC representatives join delegates from the US Department of State, the American embassy and the UN Refugee Agency in a field mission to promote and strengthen the US refugee resettlement process locally.Read more< United States of America US mulls DNA tests for some refugeesWASHINGTON, 5 November 2009 (AP<)—The Obama administration is considering using DNA tests for some foreign refugee applicants following a Bush-era pilot program that found massive fraud among those claiming family links to join relatives already in the United States.Read more<  |
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