North America

The leader of a Haitian street gang, which has kidnapped seventeen missionaries and family members, is threatening to murder them unless their $17 million ransom demand is paid in full.

A group of women looking for sons and daughters who were never heard from again after migrating to the U.S. traveled in mid- to late October throughout the country to plead for better immigration laws.

As Haitians seek to rebuild their country, "it is imperative that the international community take a shared and concrete interest in their plight," the Vatican's U.N. nuncio said during an informal meeting of the Security Council on Haiti's dire situation.

As Christian missionaries and family members, some as young as 8 months old, were still being held for ransom in Haiti by a gang notorious for group kidnappings, other charities and religious groups examined how they can remain safe while delivering humanitarian aid.

Latin America's Indigenous people will play a central role at a regional assembly the Catholic Church will hold at the end of November in Mexico.

The world can no longer ignore the suffering of the people of Haiti, an island that has been exploited and pillaged by wealthier nations for centuries, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

The Catholic Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth, is looking into the idea of locating temporary shelters on church properties.

Barbara Dowding, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, says there's good reason for excitement about the 2023 Synod of Bishops on synodality.

As apologies go, the one issued by Canada's Catholic bishops to Indigenous peoples marks a significant step in this long, long reconciliation journey.

The bishops of Canada, as a tangible expression of their commitment to walk with Indigenous Peoples along the pathway of hope, are making a nation-wide collective financial commitment to support healing and reconciliation initiatives for residential school survivors, their families, and their communities.

Canada's Catholic bishops have "unequivocally" apologized for the Catholic Church's role in the residential school system and have raised the possibility of a visit by the pope to Canada as part of the "healing journey" between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the church.

Pope Francis has sent a letter to Mexico’s bishops on the occasion of the September 27 celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Latin American nation’s final independence from Spain.

More than 200 supporters gathered on both sides of the international the border in Nogales, Mexico, Sept. 25, the eve of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, to accompany 25 families seeking asylum in the United States. The Kino Border Initiative promotes border and immigration policies that affirm the dignity of the human person and supports the families who are fleeing violence in various parts throughout Latin America.

Canada's Catholic bishops have "unequivocally" apologized for the Catholic Church's role in the residential school system and have raised the possibility of a visit by the pope to Canada as part of the "healing journey" between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the church.

Two senior Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami planned to travel to Texas Sept. 24 to meet and pray with some of the thousands of migrants stuck in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador unveils a new initiative which seeks to root out the desperation of poverty, which leads to undocumented migration.

The Slovak faithful are encouraged to give generously in a charity collection to be taken up on 26 September for the brothers and sisters in need in Cuba, as part of the fruits of the recently-concluded Apostolic Visit of Pope Francis to Slovakia.

Since May 5, 2021, the phone has been ringing at least once a day at the home of Marie Christine Kirouack, the Montreal lawyer to whom Archbishop Christian Lépine has entrusted the responsibility of receiving all complaints of abuse and inappropriate behavior committed by priests, staff members and volunteers of the Archdiocese of Montreal.

Catholic Bishops in the Mexican state of Hidalgo have expressed their solidarity with flood victims in the city of Tula, where recent torrential rains killed 16 patients in a hospital.