(Vatican Radio) The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences is having its 4th meeting of bishops and delegates in charge of relations with Muslims in Europe. The meeting is being held at the Abbey of Saint Maurice in Switzerland this week and will last for three days. Two key areas which will be covered are dialogue…
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(Vatican Radio) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, delivered an address to the 9th review conference of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty earlier this month. In his prepared remarks, Archbishop Auza told his fellow delegates the very credibility of the Treaty is at stake. “If …
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(Vatican Radio) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, delivered an address to the 9th review conference of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty earlier this month. In his prepared remarks, Archbishop Auza told his fellow delegates the very credibility of the Treaty is at stake. “If …
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(Vatican Radio) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, delivered an address to the 9th review conference of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty earlier this month. In his prepared remarks, Archbishop Auza told his fellow delegates the very credibility of the Treaty is at stake. “If …
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Washington – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denounced through a recently published report that the system of detention centers for immigrants in the US has become an “inhuman industry”, and has called for urgent reforms. From 1994 to 2013, the average daily detained population rose from 6,785 to 34,260. The number of persons detained annually increased from roughly 85,000 persons in 1995 to 440,557 in 2013. “It is time for our nation to reform this inhuman system, which detains people unnecessarily, particularly vulnerable people who are not a threat”, said the Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, His Exc. Mgr. Eusebio Elizondo, who is president of the Episcopal Commission for Migration. The USCCB study shows that the growth of detention centers has provoked a system that creates “mismatches, broken families, human rights violations, abandoned legal petitions and less national prestige”. “In many respects, immigrant detainees are not treated in the same way as other criminal defendants”, concludes the report entitled “Unlocking Human Dignity: A Plan to Transform the US Immigrant Detention System”. According to the rules of the Department of Homeland Security , immigrant detainees are not released even when there is the opportunity to put them under close surveillance, the report said. Link correlati : The full report of the USCCB:…