Fueled by unprecedented border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts
Immigration courts are buckling under an unprecedented 3 million pending cases, most of them newly arrived asylum-seekers
Immigration courts are buckling under an unprecedented 3 million pending cases, most of them newly arrived asylum-seekers
Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services
Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants
Cubans are often divided on many issues
As the national debate over Black history continues, one aspect of the legacy of race in America is undergoing something of a rebirth: Black cemeteries that were established in the era of segregation
While Muslim students remain a rarity in many U.S. school districts, they are a major presence in some communities
Each Holy Week, thousands of residents of the colonial, volcano-fringed city of Antigua participate in some of Guatemala’s oldest and most popular Easter traditions
In the small town of Comitancillo in Guatemala’s mostly Indigenous highlands, two murals memorialize the nearly two dozen local migrants who died in mass tragedies en route to the United States recently
Elevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has kept up his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant in Central America
The upcoming Paris Olympics are likely to draw new attention to France's ban on its athletes wearing hijabs
As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, one of the country’s fundamental principles is under the spotlight — laïcité, or secularism
More than 120 faith leaders are preparing for an Olympic challenge — how to spiritually support some 14,000 athletes and their staff who will take part in the Paris Games
It’s been 100 years since a Scottish runner famously refused to race on a Sunday at the Paris Olympics because of his Christian beliefs
When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest
The 2024 Paris Games got off to a rocky start with many religious groups around the world, including the Vatican over a tableau in the opening ceremony perceived by some as evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”
For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers from abroad
Midwest Lutheranism has entered the national political limelight since Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz became Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate
For decades, some political analysts have sought to depict Hispanic Americans as “socially conservative” — and indeed many of them are
Judaism’s High Holy Days annually provide an emotional mix of celebration, introspection and atonement for Jews worldwide
Many Jews worldwide will mark Yom Kippur in fasting and prayer at their synagogues this weekend
A group of Orthodox monks in upstate New York takes the Christian imperative to care for creation more literally than most religious communities
Immigration is a core issue for voters
Immigration is a core issue for voters
At noon on Sundays in Worthington, Minnesota, an overflow crowd is still swaying to the Guatemalan band at Spanish-language Catholic Mass, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are wrapping up their six-hour-long service, and at town’s edge among the cornfields, refugees from Southeast Asia gather to pray and sing in Karen at the Baptist church founded by Swedish farmers
Immigration from around the world has transformed the rural Minnesota town of Worthington
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