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A statue of the risen Christ is pictured on the University of Detroit Mercy's McNichols campus in this undated photo. Starting in 2028, the Society of Jesus in the United States and Canada will combine its five novitiate programs in North America into two, with one to be located at the University of Detroit Mercy's Lansing-Reilly Hall. The other novitiate will be based in Culver City, California. (OSV News/Detroit Catholic/Valaurian Waller)

Jesuits will create 2 novitiates from 5 current US and Canada novitiates

3rd 'Witness to Hope' summit focuses on how church can better support, protect immigrants

Priests, bishops, parish leaders and immigration rights advocates from 10 dioceses gathered at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit to discuss the Church's prophetic witness regarding the debates surrounding immigration and the impact current federal policy has had on immigrant communities over the past two years.

Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger joins other clergy during a procession from Most Holy Trinity Church in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood to the ICE Regional Field Office on Michigan Avenue in downtown Detroit July 14. The procession was organized by Strangers No Longer, a Catholic immigrant rights advocacy group. (OSV News/Detroit Catholic/Valaurian Waller)

Detroit archbishop joins Catholic procession calling for just immigration policies

Immigration rights group tried to deliver a letter to the ICE field office, but were turned away. 

 

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