Texas-Mexican border Archives

Bishops visit parish programs in Texas helped by Catholic Home Missions

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 27, 2019

With much national attention focused along the U.S.-Mexico border, members of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions visited three programs in the Diocese of El Paso that have been funded by the Catholic Home Mission Appeal.

Immigration advocates take part in teach-in event at U.S.-Mexico border

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 17, 2019

Catholic Latino organizers, labor leaders, scholars and activists took part in a social justice event that was a combination teach-in and demand for action Oct. 11-13 in El Paso.

As migrants face a closing door to the U.S., bishops accompany them

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 26, 2019

In anticipation of the 2019 World Day for Migrants and Refugees, a group of bishops, women religious, lay ministers and others interested in the plight of migrants spent the days prior to the Sept. 29 observance listening to tales of hope, dashed dreams, resilience and uncertainty that are in abundance among migrants in this border region.

A day of visiting the unwelcome, and a call to give them hope

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Sep 25, 2019

A group of U.S. bishops visited Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, to get a firsthand look at the immigration crisis.

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.