Every minute, 24 people across the globe leave their homes behind and become refugees—roughly 24 per minute, according to the United Nations Refugee...
Immigration
Las Posadas began the night I drove into downtown El Paso, Texas, my Subaru crammed with everything I thought I’d need for a year away from home. I’d been...
When a woman had to quickly flee the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the United States after her husband was murdered because of political strife...
Before I was ordained, I spent two years in Kenya with the Jesuit Refugee Service working with refugees from across East Africa. My assignment, at the Mikono...
A dozen people line the train tracks in La Patrona, Veracruz, Mexico, holding out bags of food and bottles of water tied together with string as a train...
Like Dorothy, the sisters first arrived here via tornado. And in another Oz parallel, their presence led the people of Pueblo de Palmas to discover that the...
April proved to be an incredibly cruel month for economic and political refugees attempting to escape conflict and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa...
Certain events in our lives get burned into our memories and become a part of us. Often these events happen at beginnings and endings: births and deaths...
We can borrow Vincent de Paul’s tough questions about how to best help those most in need. Turn away from the new iPhone and toward your neighbor. This is the...
The current wave of child migration really began on our side of the border. The border crisis, a pileup of humanity—including women with children and record...
