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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident and Salvadoran national at the center of a high-profile immigration case, appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office Aug. 25, 2025.

Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after surrendering to immigration authorities

August 26, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident at the center of a high-profile immigration case, surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore on Aug. 25, and faces possible deportation to Uganda, a nation that recently agreed to accept ...
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Votive candles and flowers are seen at the base of a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli hospital Feb. 23, 2025, where Pope Francis is being treated for double pneumonia. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Pope’s condition still ‘critical’ with signs of renal insufficiency under control

February 24, 2025
Pope Francis’ condition remained “critical” the evening of Feb. 23, his doctors said, with blood tests showing “initial, mild renal insufficiency, at present under control.”
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The sculpture "Angels Unawares" seen at The Catholic University of America in Washington April 22, 2022, depicts a group of migrants and refugees crowded on a boat. On Feb. 18, 2025, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration over halting funding of refugee resettlement, saying the move will cause harm. (OSV News/CNS file, Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)

Bishops sue Trump administration over halting refugee resettlement funds

February 21, 2025
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance.
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Flowers and votive candles sit at the base of a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital Feb. 18, 2025, where Pope Francis is a patient. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Pope’s condition stable; tests show some improvement

February 20, 2025
Pope Francis’ doctors described his condition as “stable” late Feb. 19 even though “blood tests, evaluated by the medical staff, show a slight improvement.
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An inmate puts away the items used on the altar following Mass at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Kansas. (OSV News photo/Karen Bonar, The Register)

Coalition aims to have prison ministry in all US dioceses, get more laity involved

February 19, 2025
Those who accompany the incarcerated have said there is a lot to do in ministering to a population that has committed crimes and had to live with the consequences of those actions.
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Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, greets a Salvadoran migrant in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 27, 2019, who was deported after crossing the Paso del Norte international border from El Paso. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Bishops’ chair invites Vance to dialogue over church’s work with migrants

February 18, 2025
The U.S. bishops’ migration chair called recent comments by JD Vance about the church’s work with migrants “a mischaracterization” while speaking at an event in the nation’s capital Feb. 12.
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A church in Lukashivka, Ukraine, that was destroyed by Russian shelling is pictured April 27, 2022. (OSV News photo/Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)

Report: Russia weaponizes orthodoxy to persecute, kill Christians in Ukraine

February 17, 2025
A new report calls for the Russian Federation to be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
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