Texas-Mexican border Archives

El Paso Diocese uses new fund to help migrants near border

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 12, 2019

During the summer of 2019, the bishop of El Paso, Texas, decided his diocese would open a fund to help a growing number of immigrants piling into shelters on the other side of the U.S. border in the sister city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.

Catholic priest stabbed to death in Mexico border city

Associated Press, Church in the Americas
Aug 24, 2019

A Catholic priest was stabbed to death in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, church officials said Friday.

LCWR award recipient embraces ‘holy chaos’ of her ministry to migrants

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 20, 2019

As the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley on the U.S.-Mexico border, Sister Norma Pimentel sees up to 800 migrants every day pouring into her center in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. The center is often their first stop after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Smithsonian inquiring about drawings made by children at Catholic center

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 10, 2019

The Smithsonian Museum of American History is looking at the possibility of acquiring for its collection drawings made by children ages 10 and 11 at a Catholic Charities center in Texas, which may depict their stay at federal detention centers for immigrants near the border.

Drowned father and daughter mourned at El Salvador cemetery

Associated Press, Church in the Americas
Jul 1, 2019

A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas were brought to their final rest Monday, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the Rio Grande circled the globe.

‘Migrants are persons like us’: Border bishops offer prayers after deaths

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 1, 2019

Catholic bishops from both sides of the border near McAllen, Texas, issued a joint statement expressing condolences to the families of migrant children and parents who recently drowned trying to cross the river into the United States.