The Assisi Project

‘I don’t want to be here anymore’: A Mass. lawyer fights to help children held at ICE detention center in Texas - The Boston Globe Corey Martin has previously volunteered on immigration law projects involving residents here on Temporary Protected Status and on asylum cases.

"I do not hear children laughing and playing. The default is treating them like they’re inmates.” #PrayForAmerica www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/m...

AMEN. 🙏🏼

Pope's March prayer intention: 'for disarmament and peace' - Vatican News Pope Leo XIV releases his prayer intention for the month of March, inviting Catholics to pray with him for 'disarmament and peace,' and praying that ...

"We lift up our prayer for peace in the world, asking that nations renounce weapons and choose the path of dialogue and diplomacy." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"War is a sacrilege that wreaks havoc on what is most precious on our earth: human life, the innocence of the little ones, the beauty of creation. Yes, war is a sacrilege!" #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

'You need to care about what's happening to other people,' says Texas immigration lawyer "If you don't think it's going to affect you because it hasn't affected you right now, well, it's only a matter of time before it hits close to home," attorney Imelda Maynard said in a recent intervie...

"You need to care about what's happening to other people because eventually it's going to affect everyone...When you're arresting citizens, even though they're showing their passports, that's an issue. Because at that point, no one is safe." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/you-nee...

"We must not think that the use and value of coins is greater than that of stones. The devil wants to blind those who desire and treasure it more. So let those of us who have left all things behind beware lest for so little we lose the kingdom of heaven." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #RememberThePoor

A ROSARY FOR PEACE EPISODE 4 – THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES FEATURING PRAYERS BY POPE FRANCIS Presented by Brother Patrick In communion with Pope Francis and in solidarity with people of faith and goodwill everywhere…

We pray for peace. #AssisiProjectPodcast #PrayForPeace #RosaryForPeace assisiproject.com/2025/06/20/a...

"Isolation and withdrawal into one's own interests are never the way to restore hope and bring about renewal. Rather, it is closeness. It is the culture of encounter. Isolation, no. Closeness, yes. Culture clash, no. Culture of encounter, yes." #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

Drone strike on Iraqi Catholic church complex reopens old wounds The Catholic community in northern Iraq has been shaken by the attack of an explosive drone hitting the Chaldean Catholic complex in Ankawa, outside of Irbil.

"We pray for the solidarity and support from our brothers and sisters around the world, that these times of violence and war will come to an end, and that our suffering people may yet have a chance to return to lives of peace and dignity." #Iraq #PrayForPeace www.ncronline.org/news/drone-s...

"Love resides only in peace." #FrancisdeSales #PrayForPeace

"We cannot remain silent": UISG to hold global prayer for peace - Vatican News The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) calls for

"We entrust to our loving, compassionate God the victims of all conflicts and war, implore the gift of courage to become artisans of peace, and reaffirm our commitment to walk together beyond borders...so the world may truly become a home for all.” #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

A ROSARY FOR PEACE EPISODE 3 – THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES FEATURING PRAYERS BY POPE FRANCIS Presented by Brother Patrick In communion with Pope Francis and in solidarity with people of faith and goodwill everywhere…

We pray for peace. #AssisiProjectPodcast #PrayForPeace #RosaryForPeace assisiproject.com/2024/09/21/a...

Pope warns of 'tragedy of enormous proportions' after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran Pope Leo XIV issued a "forceful appeal" to end increasing violence in the Middle East as the United States, Israel and Iran continue to exchange missile strikes and threats of escalations, warning of ...

"Let diplomacy silence the weapons! Let nations chart their future with works of peace, not with violence and bloody conflicts!" #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace www.ncronline.org/pope-warns-t...

Cardinal Parolin: Preventive wars risk setting the world ablaze - Vatican News Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin speaks to Vatican News about events in the Middle East, warning of a dangerous rise of multipolarism marked ...

“This erosion of international law is truly worrying: justice has given way to force; the force of law has been replaced by the law of force.” #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

"Darkness covers the earth and thick darkness enshrouds the peoples (Isaiah 60:2)." #PrayForPeace

"Let us ask the Lord of life to deliver us from this death of war." #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

A ROSARY FOR PEACE EPISODE 2 – THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES FEATURING PRAYERS BY POPE FRANCIS Presented by Brother Patrick In communion with Pope Francis and in solidarity with people of faith and goodwill everywher…

We pray for peace. #AssisiProjectPodcast #PrayForPeace #RosaryForPeace assisiproject.com/2024/02/25/a...

"Peace is a breath of the eternal. While to evil we cry out 'Enough!', to peace we whisper 'Forever.'" #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

“These are the schoolbooks of the children who are under these ruins, under this rubble here. You can see the blood of these children on these books. These are civilians, who are not in the military. This was a school and they came to study.” #PrayForPeace www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Greed, intolerance, ambition for power, and violence are motives that push forward the decisions for war. These motives are often justified by a war ideology that forgets the immeasurable dignity of human life, every human life, and the care and respect owed to each one." #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

No matter who is president, our immigration system is unjust Ben Anderson writes that Catholics must confront a fundamental question: "While today's spectacle is undeniably worse in degree than the deportations of the last 20 years, is it really any different i...

"Our current immigration law is not just broken; it is fundamentally unjust...It feeds off and sustains our worst racist prejudices. This is a structure of sin. As people of faith, we cannot endorse or accept this state of affairs." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/no-m...

Cardinal Radcliffe: In times of war, Christians are called to be people of hope - Vatican News Dominican Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe speaks to Vatican News about his ongoing visit to Ukraine, and the importance of prayer and Christian hope in ...

"More than ever, we need a Christian witness that peace is possible, that war is not inevitable. In a time of war, we are called to be people of hope." #CardinalRadcliffe #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

"War is not the solution, war is madness, war is a monster, war is a cancer that feeds on itself, engulfing everything!" #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

A ROSARY FOR PEACE EPISODE 1 – THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES FEATURING PRAYERS BY POPE FRANCIS Presented by Brother Patrick In communion with Pope Francis and in solidarity with people of faith and goodwill everywhere, …

We pray for peace. #AssisiProjectPodcast #PrayForPeace #RosaryForPeace assisiproject.com/2024/01/19/a....

"All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part." #JulianOfNorwich #PrayForPeace

Refugees, advocates challenge new DHS policy that could expand detention - The Boston Globe The lawsuit targets what advocates say is a Trump administration reinterpretation of immigration law permitting warrantless arrests of certain refugees after one year in the United States.

“We came to the U.S. to live in peace and safety, not to relive the horrors of our past.” #PrayForAmerica www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/01/m...

NCR couldn't find a single voice to question this perspective?

Hegseth. 🙄

"Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace

"When you return good for evil, you prove not only your own virtue, but often you send out coals ablaze with charity that can melt hatred and bitterness from the heart and mind of the wrathful, even turning their hatred to benevolence." #CatherineOfSiena #PrayForPeace