Migrant Crisis: Exclusive Coverage on the Southern Border
April 22, 2021Currents News Staff Arizona’s governor is sending 200 National Guard troops to the southern border. Governor Doug Ducey is declaring a state […]
Topic: El Salvador
‘Toxic Cocktail’ Forcing Unaccompanied Children to Cross U.S. Border Says Catholic Organization
April 15, 2021Currents News Staff As migrants continue to enter the U.S. from Mexico, the number of unaccompanied children in the custody of the […]
Salvadoran Parishioners at St. Michael’s Church in Flushing Remember Slain Missionaries
December 3, 2020By Jessica Easthope and Paula Katinas In a moving tribute to four American women slain in El Salvador during the height of […]
Currents News for Thursday, January 30, 2020
January 30, 2020On the newscast: A Catholic Charities food van is stolen for a joyride that ends in a violent collision on a Queens […]
Queens Catholics to Attend Oscar Romero’s Canonization
October 10, 2018By Tim Harfmann Father Carlos Quijano has pictures of Oscar Romero around his office at Blessed Sacrament Church in Jackson Heights, Queens. […]
Sainthood Hopes Rise for Father Rutilio Grande
March 20, 2018Blessed Oscar Romero is the best-known martyr of El Salvador’s civil war. His upcoming canonization has advanced the sainthood cause of another […]
El Salvadorans Fear Deportation During National Migration Week
January 11, 2018The decision is “heartbreaking’ in the words of the U.S. bishops. The clerics are responding as the Trump administration kills protections for […]
Academy Students Learn About Martyred Nun & Alumna
December 13, 2017Sister Maura Clarke was a child of the Brooklyn diocese. She was also a missionary and a martyr. Currents News Tim Harfmann […]
Cardinal Chavez Visits New York
August 21, 2017The Pope’s devotion to the people of the peripheries is seen in his selection of Gregorio Rosa Chavez as the first Cardinal […]
Remembering Blessed Oscar Romero on 100th Birthday
August 15, 2017Today is the 100th anniversary of Blessed Oscar Romero’s birth. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is hoping the martyr will become a Saint within […]