For a full hour Monday morning, the bells of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception rang in memory of Pope ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expresses its profound sorrow at the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, ...

One set of words – perhaps the simplest, but also some of the most profound – came on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Aug. 15, 2017, when he reiterated the message of an address he ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, ...

In a chapter of the April 2025 World Economic Outlook, we examine how changes to the policies faced by migrants, or refugees, or both, can alter their journeys within and between economies by opening ...

In 2018, he took the opportunity of his annual message for the World Day of Migrants and refugees to elaborate on what he dearly wanted to see happening through promoting a response articulated by ...

As the number of displaced people worldwide surged and conservative views took root, Francis never stopped standing up for ...

Despite the unresolved issues that many Catholics know are long overdue, Francis achieved far more for marginalized people ...

Pope Francis never stopped seeing migrants. Not in the thousands displaced from their homes and not in the families stranded at borders. He spoke of migrants not as numbers to be solved, but as people ...

Like Jesus, the pope passionately defended migrants ... especially refugees and immigrants – and that we should be too. There is a deep irony to the pope’s death a day after granting a ...

Throughout the nearly 12 years that followed their initial encounter, Schmalz said he has sought to serve as an “artistic soldier” for the pontiff, who died April 21. He artistically spotlighted ...

“He always stood with those who need it most: the poor, refugees ... kind of world they hoped to create. Until the pope’s final day, the two leaders had been tangling over immigration ...