Tennessee and Kentucky Faith and Business Leaders Stand with Immigrants
‘Families across the region in the south are living with fear, which has become a part of daily life… these aren’t strangers. They’re parishioners, coworkers and neighbors.’ - @DylanCorbett23 (@HopeBorder)
📢 Upcoming Webinar!
One Body, Many Hands: Mutual Aid & Diocesan Funds in the Face of Mass Deportations
📅 Thursday, October 29th
⏰ 12pm ET/10am MT
📍 Zoom: https://t.co/UMq1Z8lh2V
How dioceses are building emergency funds to help families and how to launch one where you are
Here at the border, we’ve seen the real human impacts of policies for decades. Learn about what’s happening on the ground and the test before us in the fight for reform in this week’s #FronteraDispatch.
"Sadly what we've seen is that Catholics are not unified when it comes to opinions on immigration enforcement, even though we have very clear teaching and we have very clear voices that are guiding us in this work."
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A toddler calling for his deported parents. A 13-year-old facing deportation alone. Children are speaking, and this crisis demands true solidarity. Read more in this week's #FronteraDispatch.
In Tennessee today, proud to stand with Catholic, Episcopalian bishops, faith and business leaders in the south speaking out against mass deportations and demanding real immigration reform now.
“Borders are the places where we have the opportunity to encounter the divine in those people who are migrating.”
Dylan Corbett, executive director of the @HopeBorder Institute, speaking at Deepening Our Moral Witness: A Regional Gathering on the Catholic Church’s Solidarity with Migrants hosted by @knoxdiocese.
In his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Leo reminds us that harm to just one migrant child is already too much. Read more about the collective response this demands from us in this week’s #FronteraDispatch.
#NationalMigrationWeek begins today.
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo invites Catholics across our region to gather Oct. 3 for the 10th Annual Catholic Immigration Summit at Seattle University.
A day of prayer, learning and conversation rooted in Catholic Social Teaching.
This week marked a turning point for immigration policy, and it reflects the uncertainty that's become the norm. Read more in this week’s #FronteraDispatch.
This past summer saw record-breaking detention numbers despite quieter than usual tactics. Read more about this new reality in this week’s #FronteraDispatch.