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: Mother's Day for Peace arrests; Catonsville 9 memorial

Catholic group pressures bank to divest from nuclear weapons

End of Hondurans' protected status endangers 57,000 immigrants, advocates say

Justice Action Bulletin: Protected status ending for Honduras; Immigrant mothers receive sanctuary

Justice Action Bulletin: Mock Border Wall; Domestic violence victims seeking asylum

Diversity of Catholic Worker labors springs from founders' vision

Trump administration will terminate temporary status of Nepali immigrants

Asylum seekers face increasing obstacles, which some see as deliberate

Justice Action Bulletin: Accompanying immigrants; amplifying Plowshares

Judge declares mistrial in case of Catholic Workers charged with trespassing

Justice Action Bulletin: Student-led scholarship for DACA recipients; California homeless

Midwest Catholic Workers hold retreat and pipeline protest

Francis' Chilean critics welcome apology, hope for action on abuse cover-up

El Paso diocesan commission condemns Trump's call for border troops

Justice Action Bulletin: Holy Week protests include desert walk, arrests

Catholic colleges and universities increasingly provide support to students with special needs

Trump administration orders end to Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians

Lenten hunger strike raises profile of Los Angeles homeless crisis

Justice Action Bulletin: 'Fly Kites Not Drones'; Sanctuary for Pakistani couple

Óscar Romero's legacy calls for action, understanding, says Salvadoran priest

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