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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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Un bombero trabaja cerca de las casas durante una tormenta de viento en Altadena, California, el 8 de enero de 2025, que alimentó feroces incendios forestales. Los incendios arrasaron la zona de Los Ángeles con una fuerza devastadora el 8 de enero, tras desencadenar una huida desesperada de los residentes de las casas en llamas a través de el fuego, vientos feroces e imponentes nubes de humo. (Foto OSV News/David Swanson, Reuters)

LA wildfires: Survivors lean on faith through the flames

January 10, 2025
Survivors of the Los Angeles wildfires say their Catholic faith is bringing them through the flames.
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Demonstrators march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Sept. 20, 2024, to call for an end to the era of fossil fuels (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Catholic climate policy advocates express concern about Trump proposals

January 9, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump Jan. 7 reiterated his call for some companies that make investments in the U.S. economy to bypass some environmental regulations. 
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A guide for pilgrims in Portugal heading to the Shrine of Fatima and the country's Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route is seen Feb. 8, 2023, in Lisbon. (OSV News photo/Michael Althaus, KNA)

Spain’s famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims

January 8, 2025
The boom in the number of pilgrims on Spain's famous El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, hit a new record of almost half a million last year. Among them were 38,000 Americans.
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Members of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, N.Y., hold candles during a Mass marking the feast of St. Francis of Assisi at Franciscan-run St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2022. The friars renewed their vows to consecrated ministry during the liturgy. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Ahead of synod, US friars say ‘communal discernment’ a tradition for order

January 7, 2025
(OSV News) — While “synodality” might be a new concept to Catholics surprised by the Vatican’s request that dioceses worldwide engage in community discernment from 2021-2024, the U.S. friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe — humble as they are ...
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People pray together as a group of mostly Venezuelan migrants camp on the tennis courts of a community center after losing access to other shelter in Seattle April 3, 2024. The bishops of Washington state have affirmed their solidarity with immigrants and refugees, decrying "threats of mass deportations and forced separation of families" that have caused great fear for migrant families, regardless of their migration status. (OSV News photo/David Ryder, Reuters)

Washington state bishops declare church stands with immigrants, refugees

January 6, 2025
(OSV News) — On the same day dioceses around the world inaugurated the Jubilee Year, meant to be a time of hope amid a world of uncertainty, the bishops of Washington state affirmed their solidarity with immigrants and refugees. They ...
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The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network illustrates Pope Francis' prayer intention for January 2025: "For the right to an education," particularly the right of migrants, refugees and those affected by war.

Migrants, refugees, victims of war have a right to education, pope says

January 3, 2025
Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to pray with him in January that migrants, refugees and victims of war will have a chance for an education.
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