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Many Catholic hospitals and schools interact with illegal immigrants daily. Catholic institutions offer English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classes, job training, soup kitchens, and poverty relief ...
American anti-Catholicism originally derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion (16th–18th century). Because the Reformation was based on an effort to correct what was perceived as the errors and excesses of the Catholic Church, its proponents formed strong positions against the Roman clerical hierarchy in general and the Papacy in ...
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., commonly referred to as CLINIC, is the US's largest network of non-profit immigration activist programs. [1] In its 1986 pastoral statement "Together a New People", the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) observed that the church's ministry to immigrants reflects the "biblical understanding of the justice of God reaching out to all ...
In 2021, federal immigration officials tried to pick up an illegal immigrant already flagged for deportation when he was arrested for domestic violence after beating the mother of his three-year ...
The incoming Trump administration offers promise and peril for American Catholic leaders' top policy concerns, which include abortion and immigration. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, congratulated Trump on his win in a statement, while stressing that the Catholic Church “is not aligned with ...
Elvira Arellano (born at San Miguel Curahuango, Michoacán, 1975) is an international activist who works to defend the human rights of immigrants living in the U.S. without legal authorization (often referred to as "illegal" immigrants).
Membership in the Catholic Church continues to grow in Britain, thanks to the immigration of Irish and more recently, the immigration of Polish workers. [ 27 ] Conflict and rivalry between Catholicism and Protestantism since the 1920s, especially since the 1960s, has centered on the Troubles in Northern Ireland .
Hope Border Institute is one of a number of organisations operating in El Paso which has been involved in recent events at the US-Mexican border concerning United States immigration policy. Its founding was a direct result of Pope Francis's direction that the Catholic Church should dedicate greater resources to supporting migrants in the ...