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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chair of the migration committee ofthe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Trump administration to"ensure permanent protection" for youth who were brought to the U.S.as minors without legal documentation.Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chair of the Committee on MigrationCommittee, reiterated the bishops' support for the Deferred Action forChildhood Arrivals, or DACA, a 2012 policy under then-President Barack Obama that,while not providing legal status, gives recipients a temporary reprieve fromdeportation and employment authorization in the United States as long as theymeet certain criteria.During his campaign for president, Donald Trump said hewould get rid of the program but later backtracked and it's unclear what will happento the estimated 750,000 youth who signed up for the program."DACA youth are contributors to our economy, veteransof our military, academic standouts in our universities, a...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Wildlife researchers in Cambodia have found a breeding location for the masked finfoot bird, one of the world's most endangered, raising hopes of its continuing survival, the researchers announced Thursday....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Second Bank of the United States might not be Philadelphia's top tourist draw, having to compete with neighbors like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, but its regal architecture is luring a whole different type of visitor: wedding photographers and soon-to-be brides and grooms....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police have received reports that two of the Burundi teenagers gone missing after an international robotics competition were seen crossing the border into Canada....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's persistent overtures toward Russia are placing him increasingly at odds with his national security and foreign policy advisers, who have long urged a more cautious approach to dealing with the foreign adversary....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spurred Republican senators Thursday to resolve internal disputes that have pushed their marquee health care bill to the brink of oblivion. Yet the GOP's reeling effort to dismantle much of President Barack Obama's health care law may face even longer odds because of Sen. John McCain's jarring diagnosis of brain cancer....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Battling brain cancer, Sen. John McCain on Thursday promised to return to work, making a good-natured dig at his Republican and Democratic colleagues who were jolted by news of the six-term lawmaker's diagnosis....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he has no immediate plans to resign after President Donald Trump excoriated the nation's top prosecutor for recusing himself from the probe of suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. political campaign....
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva, has addressed a UN panel on the vulnerability of migrants.In seeking to understand the vulnerable situation in which a migrant is placed, Archbishop Jurkovic called on the UN to recognize the “intimate relationship between a migrant and his or her family”.He called this a “double vulnerability: first, for the migrant, but at the same time for his or her family.”“[T]he family truly is the foundation upon which stable social, cultural, and economic situations can flourish and is central in achieving SDG 16 to establishing peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,” he said.Please find below the full address:Statement by H.E. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, at the IOM International Dialogue on MigrationPanel 1: “Understandi...
