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News/International

Local Catholic Charities in the U.S. are scrambling to shift staffs and save jobs as uncertain over refugee resettlement remains even after recent court decisions.

U.S. Catholic Charities scramble to save staff jobs over uncertainty on refugees

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WASHINGTON– Local Catholic Charities agencies are scrambling to save staff jobs as they respond to President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily suspending the country's refugee resettlement program.

Kenya's Catholic bishops are appealing to the international community for relief food because of a recent drought.

Bishops seek food relief as Kenya declares drought area national disaster

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NAIROBI, Kenya – The Kenyan government declared the country's drought a national disaster, three days after Catholic bishops requested such an action.

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, left, coordinator of the Council of Cardinals, publicly expressed his support for Pope Francis who has met with a handful of challenges to his authority in recent months.

Amid challenges, Council of Cardinals publicly expresses support of Pope Francis

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VATICAN CITY – After a handful of public challenges to Pope Francis' teaching and authority, the members of the Pope's international Council of Cardinals began their February meeting expressing their "full support" for his work.
The Trump administration will stop legal actions in courts to fight to implement Obama administration's transgender bathroom policy.

Trump drops Obama administration's transgender bathroom fight

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Washington D.C. – President Donald Trump’s administration will stop fighting in court to implement the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom policy, leading to applause from a religious freedom legal group.

An internally displaced refugee girl from al-Bab town waits to receive food aid Jan. 21, 2017, in Ekhtreen town, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria.

Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian

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A Catholic priest who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth has written to President Trump offering to surrender his American citizenship so that Trump could confer it on a Syrian refugee who would be barred under the president’s controversial order banning travellers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries.

A clergyman stands inside the Church of Loaves and Fishes following a 2015 fire in Tabgha, Israel. Twenty months after having suffered serious damage from an arson attack, the atrium of the Benedictine church was reopened.

Historic Israeli church reopens in Galilee 20 months after arson attack

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JERUSALEM – Twenty months after having suffered serious damage from an arson attack, the atrium of the Benedictine Church of the Loaves and Fishes was reopened Feb. 12. German Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne, president of the German Association of the Holy Land, celebrating a Mass to mark the event.

Teacher Maria Dominguez works with students at Rodriguez Elementary School in Austin, Texas. Dominguez said there is fear and anxiety among her students and their parents, many of whom are in the country illegally, over the Trump administration's immigration proposals.

Immigrant teacher fears Trump undermining what she has fought to lift up

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An immigrant teacher and White House honoree fears President Donald Trump is undermining the community she has fought to lift up.

Christian Broadcasting Network chief political correspondent David Brody, right, interviews President Trump at the White House.

Trump interview throws spotlight on Christian broadcaster

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WASHINGTON – When they got the get — the third one-on-one interview with President Trump — staffers at CBN News took a moment for high-fives to celebrate.

'Waves of Hope' free surfing school base din northern Chile is a place for children and young adults with mental disabilities to find love.

This surfing school in Chile was created for kids with Down syndrome

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SANTIAGO, Chile – On Sundays, Felipe Pereira is full of enthusiasm. That’s because on Sundays, the 21-year-old goes to Paradise Beach to enjoy the sea along with his friends and to learn how to surf.

Edelmiro Cardona poses for a photo in Saltillo, Mexico. He has decided to stay in Mexico rather than cross into the United States.

Migrants staying put in Mexico, abandoning efforts to reach U.S.

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SALTILLO, Mexico – Edelmiro Cardona hardly had any time to flee his native Honduras with his brother when gang members came calling.

Nizar al-Qassab, an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, gets a kiss from his children as they prepare to depart from Beirut international airport Feb. 8 en route to the United States. A three-panel federal appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's refugee and travel ban.

Outspoken Texas bishop welcomes appeals court ruling against refugee ban

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WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country's refugee resettlement program.

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