Border surge straining shelters, says Mexican bishops’ migrant ministry

The Mexican bishops’ migrant ministry says people are arriving at the US-Mexico border with illusions of easily entering the United States, but they risk being returned to Mexico under rules for expelling people rapidly during the pandemic. In a four-page statement, the migrant ministry said the situation is creating bottlenecks along the northern border as migrants, encouraged by stories of... Read More

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October 31, 2020

Salvadoran diocese calls for dialogue in increased border militarisation

Catholic leaders in northern El Salvador are speaking against the effects of increased government military presence along the country’s northern border with Honduras because of how it is affecting the free movement and livelihood of rural communities. Soldiers along El Salvador’s region of Chalatenango, which borders Honduras, have been there since the time of a... Read More

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October 7, 2020

Giant puppet to walk to Manchester to highlight displaced refugee children

A giant puppet of a child refugee will walk from the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester, symbolising “millions of displaced children”. The puppet will travel almost 5,000 miles across Turkey and Europe “in search of her mother”. Organisers say Little Amal, a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl, is an “emblem of the millions of... Read More

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July 19, 2020

Garden: Be kinder with your flower beds and save our insects

Hannah Stephenson reveals how to create a bed for pollinators. Wild pollinating insects like bees, butterflies and hoverflies, have suffered drastic declines in recent decades, both in terms of numbers and biodiversity, according to Buglife, the Invertebrate Conservation Trust. Many species have suffered such declines, and the trust warns they’re being pushed to extinction by a... Read More

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July 13, 2020

Irish border poll far too divisive at this stage, says Taoiseach

The Irish premier has ruled out a border poll as “far too divisive at this stage”. Micheal Martin said he instead wants to focus on building relationships to share the island of Ireland “in peace and harmony”. He also urged an “injection of momentum” in the Brexit talks between the UK and EU to find... Read More

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June 29, 2020

Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over’, El Paso bishop says

After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words about the Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the US amounts to sending them to their... Read More

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June 25, 2020

Bishops praise Bolivians who seize drug-trafficking plane at airstrip

Bishops in Bolivia’s Amazon region praised residents of a small town who seized a light plane, apparently owned by drug traffickers, that had violated their ban on landing at the local airstrip. “Drug trafficking in Bolivia is widespread, and this situation has made that clear,” Bishop Eugenio Coter of Riberalta, who heads the Pan-Amazonian Church... Read More

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January 24, 2020

Images at southern border ‘wound the soul,’ says Mexican bishop

The secretary-general of the Mexican bishops’ conference has expressed dismay at the sight of Mexican security forces scuffling with a caravan of Central American migrants trying to enter the country via its southern border with Guatemala. ‘We make a strong call for the (National Immigration Institute) and the (National Guard) to carry out its work... Read More

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Irish border poll far too divisive at this stage, says Taoiseach

Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over’, El Paso bishop says

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