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.
United States of America   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 Bishops commend House resolution seeking protection for religious minorities in IraqWASHINGTON, 29 November 2010 (USCCB)—The U.S. bishops commended a resolution in the House of Representatives that condemns recent attacks on religious minorities in Iraq and calls for the U.S. government to work with the Iraqi government to protect these vulnerable groups.Read more United States Minnesota Catholic bishops release statement on immigrationNew Ulm, Minnesota, 15 June 2010 (Sleey Eye Herald)—On June 15, 2010, the Catholic Bishops of Minnesota released their Immigration statement, calling attention to the urgent need of comprehensive immigration reform.Read more United States Solving illegal immigration requires fixing economic causes, stresses Bishop WesterWASHINGTON DC, 4 June 2010 (CNA)—Meeting with other bishops in a conference on immigration reform on Thursday, Bishop John C. Wester underlined the need “to address the economic root causes of migration and seek economic policies which would help create jobs” in other countries. This, he stressed, “is the lasting and humane solution to the challenge of illegal immigration.”Read more 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  |
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