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Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, and appears to take direct aim at Vance

February 11, 2025, 9:01am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end badly.” Read story

FILE - Cardinal Michael Czerny meets with journalists at the Vatican press hall, in Rome, on March 30, 2023.

Vatican’s Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty

FILE - Cardinal Michael Czerny meets with journalists at the Vatican press hall, in Rome, on March 30, 2023.

February 10, 2025, 8:17am Churches & Religion

The Vatican’s charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’ point-man on development aid insisting that the Trump administration remember Christian principles about caring for others as it begins governing. Read story

Yakima Bishop Tyson criticizes Vance’s remarks

February 8, 2025, 5:56am Churches & Religion

Amid protests against mass deportations, Yakima Bishop Joseph Tyson condemned Vice President JD Vance’s recent remarks on immigration, calling them “deeply disturbing.” Read story

FILE - Maka Indigenous leader Mateo Martinez leads a protest for the recovery of ancestral lands in Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 28, 2024.

Maká people in Paraguay fight for their sacred land

FILE - Maka Indigenous leader Mateo Martinez leads a protest for the recovery of ancestral lands in Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 28, 2024.

February 8, 2025, 5:55am Churches & Religion

Many Maká traditions have slowly faded. Yet a few elders among these Paraguayan Indigenous people recall how their songs imitated birds. Read story

Church of the Open Door in Maple Grove, Minn., is planning a 12-unit tiny-house “sacred settlement” for homeless people, similar to what’s pictured here in 2021 with the co-founders of the nonprofit Settled.

Tiny house community planned

Church of the Open Door in Maple Grove, Minn., is planning a 12-unit tiny-house “sacred settlement” for homeless people, similar to what’s pictured here in 2021 with the co-founders of the nonprofit Settled.

February 8, 2025, 5:43am Churches & Religion

A Maple Grove, Minn., church is planning the Twin Cities’ largest “sacred settlement,” a tiny-house community for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. Read story

Rev. Esteban Rodriguez, who leads Centro Cristiano El Pan de Vida, prays for congregants during a church service  in Kissimmee, Fla. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.

Latino evangelical churches gear up to face possible immigration enforcement in churches

Rev. Esteban Rodriguez, who leads Centro Cristiano El Pan de Vida, prays for congregants during a church service  in Kissimmee, Fla. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.

February 7, 2025, 8:25am Churches & Religion

Bishop Ebli De La Rosa says his motto right now is “to prepare for the worst and pray for the best.” Read story

Vice President JD Vance speaks at the International Religious Freedom Summit at the Washington Hilton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington.

A short honeymoon for Catholics in D.C. as Vice President Vance clashes with bishops on migration

Vice President JD Vance speaks at the International Religious Freedom Summit at the Washington Hilton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington.

February 6, 2025, 8:29am Churches & Religion

The sense of Catholic unity didn’t last long. Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church. Read story

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington.

Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’ and urges ‘bring God back’

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington.

February 6, 2025, 8:28am Churches & Religion

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his relationship with religion had “changed” after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year, as he advocated at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol for Americans to “bring God back” into their lives. Read story

The Aga Khan, spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims, listens to a speech during the inauguration of the Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and philanthropist, has died at 88

The Aga Khan, spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims, listens to a speech during the inauguration of the Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.

February 4, 2025, 3:21pm Churches & Religion

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries, has died. He was 88. Read story

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer director Matt Elliston listens during a briefing on Monday in Silver Spring, Md. As federal immigration enforcement efforts ramp up, local agencies are trying to reassure Clark County residents they are safe to attend school, church and seek help at hospitals and from law enforcement.

Law enforcement, schools, churches, hospitals in Clark County emphasize that crackdowns are federal government’s purview – not theirs

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer director Matt Elliston listens during a briefing on Monday in Silver Spring, Md. As federal immigration enforcement efforts ramp up, local agencies are trying to reassure Clark County residents they are safe to attend school, church and seek help at hospitals and from law enforcement.

February 1, 2025, 6:14am Churches & Religion

s federal crackdowns on unauthorized immigration ramp up under edicts from President Donald Trump, Clark County agencies — from police departments to schools to hospitals to places of worship — seek to assure local residents that they are not involved in immigration enforcement. Read story