Maria Benevento

Maria Benevento is a graduate student at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is a graduate of Creighton University, where she majored in theology and American studies and minored in justice and peace studies and Spanish. She spent two years as a full-time staff person at the Oakland Catholic Worker, a transitional shelter for Latin American immigrants and asylum seekers, before working at NCR as a Bertelsen editorial intern from 2017 to 2018.

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Justice Action Bulletin: Church cages a mirror for #EveryFamilyIsHoly

Activists risking arrest keep up their 'moral witness'

Somalis in US receive protected status extension, but not redesignation

Justice Action Bulletin: Catholic worker among protestors breaching nuclear weapons bunker

New credible fear guidelines cast uncertainty on asylum seekers coming to US

Justice Action Bulletin: Seattle buses carry ads against nuclear weapons

Justice Action Bulletin: Gun violence protest shuts down Chicago highway

Yemenis get temporary protected status extension, with limits

Justice Action Bulletin: Pipeline progresses, like 'a gun to our head'; Lutheran church offers sanctuary

10 percent of Americans overall express no opinion on refugee admission, survey shows

Justice Action Bulletin: Immigration raid in Ohio; defunding police in Minneapolis

Justice Action Bulletin: Scripture can't defend separations; Hunger strikes

Justice Action Bulletin: Supreme Court arrests; Jesuit summit; Pray for Peace

Pastoral Migratoria trains immigrant leaders to work with migrants

Justice Action Bulletin: Opposition to pipeline project, nuclear weapons

Immigration changes could lead to dropped children's health coverage

Justice Action Bulletin: Anti-nuke protests on Memorial Day; Plowshares update

Catholic advocates denounce US plan to prosecute all illegal border crossings

Justice Action Bulletin: Rally against drone warfare; JetBlue and harassment

Most immigrants with temporary protected status face its expiration

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