Part of the Scalabrinian religious community, which focuses on serving migrants, Sisters Leticia Gutiérrez Valderrama and Elisete Signor have built a comprehensive ministry and network of volunteers that has accompanied more than 1,000 people in immigration court since last June — and has continued to work with hundreds more in detention centers, as well as their families. “I go because he is a human being. He is a migrant who is, at this moment, possibly lonely, depressed, scared,” Signor told Hertzler-McCain in March as they waited to visit a detained Sudanese migrant. When Signor emerged from the visit, she came back with a task: “He likes crosswords, and I’m going to buy him one tomorrow.” Top Stories | EL PASO (RNS) — Though faith groups across the country are accompanying immigrants in court and detention centers, the integrated system built by the Scalabrinian sisters for the Diocese of El Paso is rare. |
 | VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Israeli authorities apologized after barring Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, an incident that drew sharp criticism from global leaders and church officials. |
 | VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Nearly a year into his pontificate, Leo is tightening his grip on the Vatican, elevating low-profile diplomats and sidelining a top official linked to past financial turmoil. |
 | JERUSALEM (RNS) — In much of the country, schools are closed, and no more than 50 people are permitted to gather in any one location — including houses of worship and even schools. |
 | (RNS) — The photo of his arrest during a protest against ICE has given the Chicago-area pastor a platform to share a theology that centers immigrants and that harkens back to the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980's. |
Opinion | (RNS) — Christian nationalists' preferred framing of American politics as 'secular left vs. Christian' is false. |
 | (RNS) — Even the Trump administration's ambassador called barring the Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday 'difficult to understand.' |
ICYMI | MONACO (RNS) — As 70 new catechumens are preparing for baptism in the tiny country, Pope Leo pointed to a growing — if uneven — interest in Catholicism among young people across Europe and beyond. |
 | NEW YORK (RNS) — Just ahead of Passover and Holy Week, clergy invoked the biblical stories of liberation and resistance to mobilize faithful ahead of the city's march. |
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