by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
The United Methodist Church is urging justice for migrants worldwide and reform of U.S. immigration laws. Delegates to the denomination’s top legislative body, meeting from 23 April – 2 May 2, adopted resolutions covering both global migration and...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
A Catholic bishop has launched a strong attack on the government’s failure to regularise undocumented migrants living in Britain, branding its policies ‘irresponsible’, ‘shameful’ and ‘unjust’. Bishop Thomas McMahon of...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 29, 2008
Roman Catholic leaders in Britain and in Poland have publicly disagreed over how best to provide pastoral care for large numbers of Polish migrants currently living and working in the United Kingdom – writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “It remains our position that...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 19, 2008
In the UK, the government and opposition are competing to show how they will make life harder for jobless people and immigrants. Elsewhere in the world, too, politicians continue to unveil measures which target the poor and marginalised, including cuts in benefits and...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the senior figure in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has called for a more welcoming approach to migrants in British national life. During his Midnight Mass homily, delivered and broadcast on Christmas Eve...
