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Church organizations launch campaign to aid immigrants.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Church organizations launch campaign to aid immigrants.(NATION)

Article Excerpt
Citing reasons as broad as Catholic teaching about the right to migrate to improve one's life and as narrow as one Guyana emigrant's need to support his family, more than a dozen church organizations and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops May 10 launched a campaign called Justice for Immigrants.

The program is intended to educate the public, and Catholics in particular, about how immigration and immigrants benefit the nation; to improve public opinion about the contributions of immigrants; to advocate for changes in immigration laws and policies; and to organize networks that assist immigrants with legal problems.

Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, a consultant to the bishops' Committee on Migration, said at a news conference announcing the campaign that the bishops "have grown increasingly disturbed by the current public...

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