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February 4, 2015

Bishops in Mexico's South: Catholics must change views on migrants

This handout photo courtesy of the office of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, shows unaccompanied migrant children at a Department of Health and Human Services facility in south Texas. Many undocumented minors coming across the U.S. border claim they ar e escaping gang violence in their home countries.

MEXICO CITY - Bishops from Mexico's southernmost dioceses issued a statement calling for Catholics to stop acting indifferently toward the difficulties faced by undocumented migrants, who continue abandoning Central America and taking dangerous trips through Mexico in their attempts at reaching the United States.

Published in International
December 5, 2014

A Christmas gift for suffering South Sudan

A man fills a bag with cassava, also known as manioc, at the Ubangi River near the border between Congo and Central African Republic in this February photo. Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, visited the conflict-ridden neighbours South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

The world’s newest nation is in big trouble.

Following more than 20 years of civil war between north and south Sudan, the independent nation of the Republic of South Sudan was born in 2011.

But the birth of the new nation didn't come without pain. The many years of war brought not only much death, but also drained South Sudan of valuable resources, leaving it extremely poor.

Published in Tony Magliano