US & Canada

Palantir has not agreed to implement a shareholder proposal filed by the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace (CSJP), asking the Company to conduct and publish a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) - a report that describes actual and potential human rights impacts associated with the use of its products and services. The shareholder proposal, filed in December 2025, focuses on the... Read More

Yesterday, February 24, a few hours before President Trump's first State of the Union address of his second term, Pax Christi USA's bishop president Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv., of Lexington KY, and 17 other bishops issued a statement strongly condemning ongoing tactics by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to threaten and intimidate the immigrant community. They reiterate the ... Read More

On Ash Wednesday - after months of trying - a group of religious and clergy were finally given a temporary injunction to visit the Broadview ICE 'processing centre' for migrants on the outskirts of Chicago. They gave Communion and distributed ashes to those inside. That evening, more than 3,500 people attended a Mass outside Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Chicago, presided over by Cardinal Bla... Read More

Concluding a biennial gathering, the officers and members of the Episcopal Conferences of the Americas met from February 15-17 at a retreat centre to pray and discuss their shared ministry as pastors. The eleven bishops attending included bishops from the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM), the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), and the United States Conference of ... Read More

Priests Against Genocide USA-part of a global network of 2,200 priests from 58 countries, along with 22 bishops, archbishops, and two cardinals-issued an open letter to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) calling on Catholic leaders in the United States to speak with moral clarity regarding President Trump's convening of the 'Board of Peace"'on February 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. The gr... Read More

National and local Catholic organisations and activists are coming together to hold an event in Anaheim to urge Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the sentences of all individuals on California's death row before he leaves office. Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN) is joining with the Office of Restorative Justice in the Diocese of Orange, Loyola Marymount University, PaxChristi USA, Catholics Agains... Read More

A group of Buddhist monks, accompanied by a rescue dog named Aloka, completed a 109 day, 2,300 mile (3,700km) Walk For Peace from Hương Đạo Vipassana Bhavana Centre in Fort Worth Texas, to Washington DC yesterday. Inspired by their faith, the aim of the walk was to raise "awareness of peace, loving kindness, and compassion across America and the world." The Walk For Peace began on October 2... Read More

The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blaise Cupich, has asked President Donald Trump to apologise for a "viciously racist" video posted on his Truth Social account. The final frames of the video, which appeared on President Trump's account on Thursday evening, depicted former US President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. In his statement, (in English, Spanish and Polish) t... Read More

Bishop Louis Tylka, from the Diocese of Peoria said in a statement today: "The Holy See has informed me that the Cause for the Venerable Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen can proceed to Beatification. The next step in the process is the celebration of the Beatification, in which Fulton Sheen would be declared Blessed. In the Catholic Church, beatification is the first major step to sainth... Read More

Ahead of the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Paul S Coakley, has urged policymakers to "courageously pursue diplomatic negotiations to maintain New START's limits." "I call on people of faith and all men and women of good will to ardently pray that we, as an international community, may develop th... Read More

Dozens of faith leaders were arrested in Washington yesterday (Thursday) as they held peaceful protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the activities of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, (ICE). One of those arrested was Bishop Dwayne Royster, executive director of Faith in Action. Marie Dennis, director of Pax Christi International Catholic Institute for No... Read More

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has appealed for a Holy Hour for peace as a step toward national healing, as the country faces tremendous tensions. Nearly 69,000 people have been arrested by masked immigration enforcement men. Three protesters have been killed. "Your faith matters. Your prayers matter. Your acts of love and works of ju... Read More

Tensions are running high in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and US citizen, on Saturday. The federal government alleged that Mr Pretti was carrying a gun and intervened as ICE agents confronted a woman on the street. Local authorities said Mr Pretti had a permit to carry a handgun, addin... Read More

Calls for justice are on a crescendo-from more than 100 pastors who stood in solidarity with the community of Minneapolis, Minnesota; to more than 8,000 people who gathered online on 25 January for a prayer organized by the Faith in Action network; to peaceful protests in communities growing in cities and towns across the US. As violence escalated in areas to which US federal Immigration and Cu... Read More