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 December 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...]