Isolating Syria from the international community through sanctions “benefits no one” and complicates relief efforts to the millions left homeless after earthquakes devastated the country, said a top Vatican official who visited Turkey and Syria.

La administración Biden propuso el 21 de febrero su medida de control fronterizo más restrictiva hasta la fecha, anunciando que planea emitir una norma temporal que bloquee a los solicitantes de asilo que crucen la frontera ilegalmente o que no soliciten primero protección en otras naciones antes de venir a Estados Unidos. Defensores católicos de los inmigrantes condenaron la propuesta.

The Biden administration Feb. 21 proposed its most restrictive border control measure to date, announcing it plans to issue a temporary rule blocking asylum-seekers who cross the border without authorization or who do not first apply for protections in other nations before coming to the United States.

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marks its first anniversary, the U.S. bishops’ international policy chairman pleaded for peace amid a war that has left “no corner of the globe untouched.”

Violence against the unborn and violence against the chronically and terminally ill are indeed manifestations of the culture of death – the cheapening of human life.