2026-06-27T09:19:58.653Z / 路透社
亚利桑那州图森的詹姆斯·米斯科主教2026年6月26日在美国亚利桑那州诺加利斯的耶稣圣心天主教堂举行的2026年边境弥撒上主持弥撒。路透社/丽贝卡·诺布尔
- 内容摘要
- 游行活动在美国最高法院作出影响移民的裁决后举行
- 美国主教们表示，他们对移民被污名化感到痛心
- 利奥教皇将于7月4日在兰佩杜萨岛聚焦移民议题
亚利桑那州诺加利斯，6月27日（路透社）——上周五晚间，逾百名天主教主教、修女、牧师和教区居民举行跨美墨边境游行，敦促美国政府以尊严和尊重对待移民。
此次游行从亚利桑那州诺加利斯前往其位于墨西哥索诺拉州的姐妹城市，计划与美国建国250周年纪念活动同期举行。
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“我们希望携手共进。这就是教会的宗旨所在，”亚利桑那州图森的詹姆斯·米斯科主教在诺加利斯耶稣圣心教堂主持弥撒时说道，该教堂俯瞰美墨边境围栏。
天主教领袖批评移民政策
礼拜结束后，神职人员和教区居民排队开始一起念玫瑰经，随后穿越边境，墨西哥方面的神职人员也加入了他们的行列。
“天气酷热难耐，甚至会致命，”在安博斯诺加利斯为移民提供服务的方济各会修女艾琳·麦肯齐说道。
她认为，在气温达到华氏96度（摄氏36度）的高温下举行此次游行，是展现团结的独特时刻。
“我们意识到，此刻正有人穿越沙漠，他们没有任何喘息之机。这让我们更清楚地认识到现状。越来越多的人冒险前往更远的区域，他们愈发绝望，但仍在穿越边境。”
美国天主教领袖与利奥教皇一道批评特朗普时代的移民政策，指出大规模驱逐、拘留设施条件以及执法突袭等行为，他们认为这些做法加剧了移民的恐惧和苦难。
美国最高法院周四作出两项裁决，允许特朗普政府在边境驱逐寻求庇护者，并剥夺数十万海地和叙利亚移民的驱逐保护。
11月召开的美国天主教主教会议大会
对“移民被污名化”表示痛心，并对拘留中心的条件以及无法获得牧养关怀表示担忧。
主教表示牧师被拒绝接触部分被拘留者
负责监督得克萨斯州埃尔帕索教区的马克·赛茨主教一直在监测附近布利斯堡的东蒙大拿营拘留中心的情况，他表示，宗教牧师有时被拒绝接触被拘留者。
“目前被拘留的大多数人，既不是老年人，也不是病患。然而他们却在死亡。那里有大量紧急求助电话，反映出人们正遭受极大的痛苦，”赛茨说道。
他表示，天主教牧师每周仅被允许在周日举行一次弥撒，可供约100名信众参与，而被拘留者超过1000人，这仅占其中一小部分。
“这些人中，大约80%可能都是天主教徒，其中许多人由于自身处境，反而更需要在生活中寻求上帝的庇佑。我们无法为他们提供服务，这实在太令人遗憾了，”赛茨说道。
美国国土安全部发言人此前告诉路透社，“移民海关执法局一直在寻求改善其拘留设施的途径”，并指出东蒙大拿营在去年12月至今年1月发生三起死亡事件后，已更换了合同管理方。
联邦官员挥手示意主教和信众游行队伍穿越边境进入墨西哥，他们随后继续举着瓜达卢佩圣母像的横幅念玫瑰经。
当游行队伍前往圣母无原罪教堂时，路过的民众向他们微笑致意，诺加利斯主教在教堂迎接了他们。
迪伦·科贝特——埃尔帕索HOPE边境研究所执行董事，同时也是梵蒂冈促进人类整体发展部（一个倡导移民权利的梵蒂冈组织）成员，表示此次弥撒是全球天主教徒持续不懈努力的一部分。
“在中美洲，我们看到委内瑞拉移民外流，在海地亦是如此，教会始终在提供人道主义支持，建立相关机制以帮助被驱逐者重返社会，同时发声并倡导制定更人道的政策，从而实现对移民更具人性和同情心的对待，”他补充道。
7月4日美国独立250周年纪念日当天，利奥教皇将在兰佩杜萨岛主持弥撒。这座意大利岛屿多年来已接收数十万逃离非洲和中东部分地区战争与贫困的移民。
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Catholic bishops call for humane treatment of migrants during US-Mexico border Mass
2026-06-27T09:19:58.653Z / Reuters
Bishop James Misko, of Tucson, leads mass during Border Mass 250 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Nogales, Arizona, U.S. June 26, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble
- Summary
- Procession follows US Supreme Court ruling affecting migrants
- US bishops have said they are saddened by immigrant vilification
- Pope Leo will mark July 4 on migration frontline in Lampedusa
NOGALES, Arizona, June 27 (Reuters) – More than 100 Catholic bishops, nuns, priests and parishioners joined a procession across the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday evening, urging the U.S. government to treat migrants with dignity and respect.
The procession, from Nogales, Arizona, to its sister city in the Mexican state of Sonora, was planned to coincide with commemorations of America’s 250th anniversary.
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“We want to be well together. This is what the Church is all about,” Tucson, Arizona, Bishop James Misko said as he celebrated Mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Nogales, which overlooks the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
CATHOLIC LEADERS CRITICIZE IMMIGRATION POLICIES
After the service concluded, the clergy and parishioners lined up and started praying the rosary together as they walked across the border, where they were joined by their Mexican counterparts.
“The heat is terrible, the heat is actually deadly,” said Sister Eileen McKenzie, a Franciscan nun who works with migrants in Ambos Nogales.
She considered the procession a unique moment of solidarity as they endured temperatures peaking at 96 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius).
“We realized, there are people crossing the desert right now, and they don’t have any (respite). It puts perspective on it. There are more and more people who are going farther and farther out. They are more desperate and they are still crossing.”
Catholic leaders in the United States, along with Pope Leo, have criticized Trump-era immigration policies, singling out mass deportations, conditions in detention facilities and enforcement raids among actions they say contribute to fear and suffering among migrants.
The Supreme Court ruled in two decisions on Thursday that the Trump administration could turn away asylum seekers at the border and strip deportation protections from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
A gathering of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November
expressed sadness over “the vilification of immigrants” and concern about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care.
BISHOP SAYS CHAPLAINS DENIED ACCESS TO SOME DETAINEES
Bishop Mark Seitz, who oversees the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, has been monitoring the situation at the Camp East Montana detention center in nearby Fort Bliss, where he said religious chaplains have sometimes been denied access to detainees.
“Most of these people that are being detained right now, they’re not elderly people. They’re not generally sick people. And yet they’re dying. And, there are many emergency calls from there to people who are suffering mightily,” Seitz said.
He said Catholic priests have only been allowed to celebrate one Mass a week, on Sundays, with room for about 100 faithful, a fraction of the more than 1,000 detainees.
“These are people, 80% of which are probably Catholic and, and many of which, because of their circumstances, are even more needing God in their lives. It’s so unfortunate that we can’t serve them,” Seitz said.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security previously told Reuters that, “ICE is always looking at ways to improve (its) detention facilities,” pointing to a change in contract administration at Camp East Montana following three deaths there between December and January.
The bishops and procession of the faithful were waved across the border into Mexico by federal officials, where they continued praying the rosary, following a banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
People walking past smiled at the procession as it made its way to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, where it was welcomed by the Nogales bishop.
Dylan Corbett — executive director of the HOPE Border Institute in El Paso and a member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, a Vatican group that advocates for migrant rights — said the Mass was part of a wider, constant effort by Catholics around the world.
“In Central America, the exodus that we’ve seen from Venezuela, and (in) Haiti, the Church is there providing humanitarian support, standing up structures to be able to reintegrate those who have been deported, providing witness and also advocacy to advance policies that are more humane and will result in a more human and compassionate treatment of migrants,” he added.
On July 4, the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, Pope Leo will celebrate Mass in Lampedusa, an Italian island where hundreds of thousands of migrants have arrived over the years, fleeing war and poverty in parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Reporting by Julio-César Chavez; Editing by Jesse Mesner-Hage, Edmund Klamann and Andrew Heavens