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Liam Conejo Ramos, right, and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and then taken to a detention center in Texas, sit on the stairs back at their home after a judge ordered their release, in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, in this picture obtained from social media Feb. 1, 2026. (OSV News/Joaquin Castro via BlueSky, via Reuters)

Judge Orders Release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and His Father

By OSV News | February 2, 2026

By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — A federal judge cited two Gospel verses in his order releasing 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who had been detained by immigration agents in a Minneapolis suburb and sent to a Texas family detention center. The sharply worded document also included a picture of the child taken at the time of ...

A young woman becomes emotional at a makeshift memorial in Minneapolis Jan. 25, 2026, at the site where a man was fatally shot by federal agents trying to detain him Jan. 24. Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis, along with other Church leaders, have called for peace amid growing tensions. (OSV News/Tim Evans, Reuters)

Overcoming Evil with Good in Minneapolis

By Jean Walsh | January 29, 2026

A returned Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on an interfaith mobilization in Minneapolis to stand with immigrant communities.

Desperate victims of scam center abuse wait for help outside the Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Terry Friel/Cambodia)

Maryknoll Lay Missioner in Cambodia Helps Migrant Victims of Scam Centers

By UCA News | January 29, 2026

As the government cracks down on illegal work sites, migrant workers whose documents were stolen are left both unemployed and stranded far from home.

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Louise Locke (in pink shirt) visits with Lourdes and her children in a poor community on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Lourdes, who has five young children including one with a developmental disability, was given a small cart for selling street food to support her family. (Courtesy of Louise Locke/Maryknoll Lay Missioners/Bolivia)

The Lord’s Most Loved: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | January 29, 2026

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Louise Locke, who serves in Bolivia, reflects on a recent encounter with an indigent man and the Sunday Mass readings.

A member of the National Guard stands at a soccer field in the municipality of Salamanca, Mexico, Jan. 26, 2026, at the site where a group of armed attackers killed several people during a soccer match. Gunmen descended from two vehicles and opened fire on players and spectators at the recreational soccer match Jan. 25 in the community of Loma de Flores, according to local officials. (OSV News/Juan Moreno, Reuters)

Mexico’s Bishops Call for Peace After Soccer Field Massacre Claims 11 Lives

By OSV News | January 28, 2026

The massacre in Guanajuato is the latest incident of violence related to drug cartels that has convulsed the country for nearly 20 years.

People take part in a demonstration in Minneapolis Jan. 25, 2026, a day after a man was fatally shot by federal agents trying to detain him. The Department of Homeland Security said Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse, had a handgun and approached Border Patrol officers during a targeted operation Jan. 24. (OSV News/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

After Minneapolis Shootings, Cardinal Says Stop Funding ‘Lawless Organization’

By OSV News | January 27, 2026

Cardinal Joseph Tobin calls on faith communities to urge lawmakers to reconsider funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and federal officers detain a migrant as he walks out from a hearing during targeted detainment at a U.S. immigration court in the Manhattan borough of New York City Oct. 27, 2025. (OSV News/David ‘Dee’ Delgado, Reuters)

New Partnership Will Help Church Defend Migrants, Refugees

By OSV News | January 22, 2026

Catholic organizations launch an alliance to coordinate local responses and defend people from pernicious deportation policies.

Maryknoll Sister Genie Natividad helping children with trauma healing excercises at Karibu (“Welcome”) Foundation for abused children, founded by a Canadian woman to help stop child abuse. (Nile Sprague/Tanzania)

Mission on the Margins: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | January 22, 2026

Maryknoll Sister Genie Natividad, who has served at the U.S.-Mexico border, invites us to reach out to marginalized people, as Jesus did.

Jose Luis Gonzalez, brother of Rosa Elena Gonzalez, who died from injuries sustained during U.S. strikes in Venezuela, gives a speech as he and members of her family attend her funeral, on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 5, 2026. (OSV News/Gaby Oraa, Reuters)

Top Vatican Official Warns That Global Uncertainty May Lead to War

By OSV News | January 21, 2026

Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that declining diplomacy, violations of sovereignty and a rise in conflicts are pushing the world to the brink.

U.S. Marines participate in a military exercise called “Cold Response 2022,” gathering around 30,000 troops from NATO member countries plus Finland and Sweden, near Bjerkvik in the Arctic Circle, Norway, March 24, 2022, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (OSV News/Bart Biesemans, Reuters)

US Cardinals Call for ‘Genuinely Moral Foreign Policy for Our Nation’

By OSV News | January 20, 2026

Three U.S. cardinals warn that polarization, partisanship and narrow national interests threaten global peace and human dignity.

A woman prays during a Vatican canonization ceremony for Blessed José Gregorio Hernández, known as the “Doctor of the Poor,” and Blessed María Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez as it is projected on a big screen in La Candelaria Square in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 19, 2025. At the Vatican Pope Leo XIV canonized the two Venezuelans along with five other blesseds. (OSV News/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, Reuters)

My Beloved Venezuela: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | January 15, 2026

Maryknoll Father Leo Shea reflects on Jesus as the Lamb of God and the suffering of the people in Venezuela, where he served in mission.

Rohingya refugees are reflected in rain water along an embankment next to paddy fields after fleeing from Myanmar into Palang Khali, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Nov. 2, 2017. President Donald Trump said in a series of social media posts Nov. 27, 2025, that he will “permanently pause” all immigration from what he called “Third World Countries.” (OSV News/Hannah McKay, Reuters)

International Court: Myanmar Military Targeted Rohingya in Hate Campaigns

By UCA News | January 14, 2026

The International Court of Justice examines the State of Myanmar for alleged genocide against the Rohingya fueled by social media offensives.

A woman holds a rosary during a vigil for a 37-year-old woman who was shot in her car by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis Jan. 7, 2026. (OSV News/Tim Evans, Reuters)

ICE Deported Minnesota Church Employee, Surveilled Parish During Mass

By OSV News | January 13, 2026

Pastor says ICE monitoring of a Catholic church during Mass is intimidating parishioners and “feels like we’re in a war zone.”

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