The United States’ family separation policy has ended. The policy has seen thousands of children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border. US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to end the policy after days of outrage from the public and politicians. “We’re going to have strong — very strong — borders, Read more
The outcome of the Korean summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un has been greeted with joy and calls for prayers of thanksgiving. The United States and North Korean leaders signed a joint-statement making commitments “to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.” After the summit, Trump said Read more
Pastor Robert Jeffress, who led the blessing of the new American embassy in Jerusalem is said to believe Satan is behind Catholicism. The Texan, who was invited to lead the blessing by President Donald Trump, has a history of strongly disliking a range of individuals and groups. According to recordings from his radio show “Pathway Read more
Pax Christi USA is condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. The Catholic peace movement says it is “short-sighted” and “an insane move. “This decision is short-sighted and opens the door to war or the resurgence of Iran’s nuclear programme.” Pax Christi says the Iran Deal has been successful in Read more
Recently some 2000 members of the National Guard of the United States have been sent to the Southern Border with Mexico. The National Guard exists for the protection of the nation. They assist in times of natural disasters or respond to an armed threat from a foreign military force. None of that is happening at Read more
Three generations of Kiwis ‘down the road’, it dawned on me that not only am I from a migrant family but I too am also a migrant. 27 years in Peru; 5 years in Venezuela; a stint in Australia: 5 years here in the Rio Grande Valley on the border the USA with Mexico. Now Read more
US Catholic bishops are calling for legislative action for Dreamers. Dreamers are undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children. Bishop Joe Vásquez says the US Catholic Bishops conference supports the bipartisan “Uniting and Securing America” (USA) Act of 2018 as it is currently written. Vásquez chairs the conference’s Committee on Migration. The Act Read more
Catholic leaders in the United States are disgusted President Donald Trump wants National Guard troops to go to the US-Mexico border. They say it is morally irresponsible, dangerously ineffective and unwise. Rather than keeping migrants out of the United States, they would like the administration to be more welcoming. In a statement from the Hope Read more
Dreamers in the United States may be in for a nasty wake-up. Right now, they are facing deportation. The Catholic church in the US has issued an urgent call to action to help Dreamers (young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children). While they are currently shielded from deportation under an Obama-era Deferred Action Read more
Pope Francis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met privately on Monday at the Vatican. This is the first visit by a Turkish head of state to the Vatican in 59 years. Erdoğan was returning a visit Francis made to Turkey in 2014. Vatican sources say that at the meeting Francis and Erdoğan discussed “bilateral Read more