Essay: The hidden interfaith networks key to the migrant justice movement
CHARLOTTE LONG, who led a research project to map out migrant shelters in the US and taught on the theology of global service in the Episcopal Church, looks – in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the tireless work of immigration networks in the US…
Migrants stuck in Mexico hopeful US will lift COVID-era expulsion policy at border
Reynosa, MexicoReuters News the United States is poised to end a pandemic-related border expulsion policy is buoying hopes of thousands of migrants who have waited months in Mexico for a chance to seek asylum in the United States. US health officials are set to announce plans this week to terminate the order, known as Title […]
Migrants clash with police in southern Mexico
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Dozens of migrants clashed with police in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Tuesday, as frustration boiled over due to authorities keeping them waiting for months to be granted approval for free passage across Mexico to the US border. Migrants, mostly from Haiti and Africa, have been demonstrating in Tapachula, near […]
Embracing the stranger: Milwaukee church gives refugees a welcome that has become a way of life
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that on how Eastbrook Church is engaging with refugees, immigrants and international students…
Stay of removal issued for three immigrants who resided in US ‘sanctuary’
RNS Three immigrants who have resided in houses of worship to avoid deportation were granted one-year stays of removal this week, a move faith-based immigrant rights advocates framed as a “Christmas gift” years in the making. Among the immigrants is Jeanette Vizguerra, who has resided at First Unitarian Society of Denver since spring 2019. According […]
Guatemala receives bodies of 15 migrants killed in Mexico trailer accident
Guatemala CityReuters The bodies of 15 people killed when a trailer carrying migrants overturned in Mexico were returned to Guatemala on Thursday and reunited with families who will lay them to rest as the year ends. In all, 56 people were killed when a truck packed with migrants flipped over in the state of Chiapas […]
Churches welcome Afghan refugees in Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil While Brazil may not be a preferred destination for Afghan citizens who have left their homeland after the Taliban assumed power in August, a number of them have found refuge in the South American country where Christian churches have been playing a central role in the process of integrating them to the […]
Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico were kidnapped, raped or assaulted – report
Washington DC, USReuters Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a US border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted, according to a report by a human rights group released on Tuesday. The report, by New York-based Human Rights First, documents cases of migrants and asylum seekers stuck in Mexico since […]
Essay: How the church can be a better evangelical witness to displaced people
In an article first published on Religion News Service, EUGENE CHO, editor of a recent anthology of pastoral, theological and refugee perspectives on the church’s evangelical mission, looks at how the church can become “a shining light of joy for the suffering and hope for the hopeless”…
Mexico’s vaccines plan raises fears migrants will miss out
Mexico CityThomson Reuters Foundation Migrants and Indigenous people in Mexico risk missing out on the coronavirus vaccine because the system currently requires an identification number not everyone in the country has, human rights groups have warned. Authorities in the country, which has been hard hit by the pandemic, last week invited over-60s to sign up […]