Immigrant advocates recently walked away from an online meeting with Biden administration officials to protest a move that will revive a Trump-era policy blocking people seeking asylum from entering the U.S.
Under cloudy skies on a late afternoon in October, about 45 young adults gathered on steps outside the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul to sing their hearts out. Some were casually dressed in jeans, and others were dressed up. A group of young men wore light gray shirts identifying them as seminarians studying at St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul, and five young women wore habits of their religious community, Pro Ecclesia Sancta.
Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila Oct. 20 condemned a rash of anti-religious vandalism of churches and other buildings in northern Colorado, and prayed "for an end to these attacks and that God's love will be known by anyone who feels compelled to commit these acts."
As Christian missionaries and family members, some as young as 8 months old, were still being held for ransom in Haiti by a gang notorious for group kidnappings, other charities and religious groups examined how they can remain safe while delivering humanitarian aid.