Thirty-nine U.S. Congressional Representatives sent a letter to Mr. Rand Beers, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to request a meeting to discuss dangerous deportation practices, short-term detention conditions, and migrant deaths along the U.S./Mexico border. For more information, please click the following link: http://www.jesuits.org/news-detail?TN=NEWS-20131219090514 …Read More
Archives for 2013
Christmas Hope
The Christmas story is a migration story. Not the story of Joseph and Mary having to return to Bethlehem for the census, which resulted in Jesus being born there. And not the story of Jesus, Mary and Joseph having to flee from Herod’s order to kill all newborns, which set them on the road again. Christmas is the celebration of the greatest migration story of all time, when God migrated to earth, in the person of Jesus. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.” (John 1:14) The …Read More
Kino Border Initiative in Story on Migrant Deaths in the Desert
The Kino Border Initiative appeared recently on a news story about migrant deaths near the Arizona-Sonora border. It was produced by Fusion, which provides English-language television programming with a focus on Latino viewers. To watch the video, please click the following link: http://fus.in/1j0qRmb …Read More
Save the Date! Kino Border Initiative Fifth Anniversary Celebrations!
In January 2014, the Kino Border Initiative will celebrate its fifth anniversary! There will be two Masses of Thanksgiving: one at Cristo Rey Parish in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico on Friday, January 24, 2014 at 6:00pm and another at San Felipe de Jesús Parish in Nogales, Arizona on Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 1:00pm. It will be an opportunity to give thanks to God and to so many people who have made our cross-border migrant ministry possible. For more details, please call the Kino Border …Read More
Pope Francis as Prophet
“Immigrants who died at sea, from that boat that, instead of being a way of hope was a way of death”. These words were part of the homily given by Pope Francis on July 8 of this year, when he celebrated Mass on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Not far from Sicily and the closest Italian island to Africa, Lampedusa has become a destination for tens of thousands of refugees seeking to enter European Union countries. On Wednesday, October 3, less than three months after the pope’s visit, a …Read More
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