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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets Pope Francis after both leaders spoke at a conference on adult stem cell research at the Vatican April 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
As Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in U.S. history, continues to fill out his administration, a number of important executive and ambassadorial nominees will go before the Senate. One position of particular interest for American Catholics is the U.S. ambassadorship to the Holy See.
Since 1984, the United States and the Holy See have maintained formal diplomatic relations, building on a fraught history of relations going back to the Washington administration. Mr. Biden, who keeps a photo of himself and Pope Francis on a table behind his desk in the Oval Office, is likely to consider several factors in his decision, including what priorities Mr. Biden would seek to emphasize with the Holy See, the expertise and familiarity with the church of the candidates and what message Mr. Biden wants to send to
U.S. to resettle more child refugees fleeing violence around the world By Camilo Montoya-Galvez Climate refugees and havens from extreme weather
As part of its overhaul of U.S. refugee policy, the Biden administration is planning to offer humanitarian refuge to more children fleeing violence around the world, according to a government report obtained by CBS News.
The report, prepared by the State Department to notify the House and Senate Judiciary Committees of President Biden s proposal to increase admissions of refugees, committed the U.S. to resettling more unaccompanied refugee minors going forward. Arrivals of these refugee children, who don t have parents or legal guardians who can care for them, decreased sharply during the Trump administration and were effectively halted this fiscal year.
(RNS) The White House announced the task force Tuesday morning (Feb. 2) as part of a number of immigration-related executive actions President Joe Biden was expected to take that day.
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A U.S Customs and Border Protection agent looks at a migrant deported from the U.S. at the Paso del Norte international border bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Nov. 1, 2020. U.S. President Joe Biden Jan. 20, 2021, revoked Trump s 2017 executive order authorizing massive expansion of immigration enforcement in U.S. and has implemented a 100-day moratorium on certain deportations. (Credit: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters, via CNS).
Hope Border Institute executive director Dylan Corbett see’s firsthand the hardship thousands of people face in Ciudad Juárez – the city opposite the border to El Paso – while they wait in limbo to pursue their asylum cases and hopefully enter the United States.