A religious sister best known for helping more than 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas was in Chicago April 15 to share her artwork nationally for the first time and reiterate a message of love.
Along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, humanitarian groups have been giving food, water, blankets, and warm clothes to asylum-seekers. I accompanied Sr. Judy Bourg and some volunteers on a recent trip in January.
Mercy Srs. JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy, along with Mercy Associate Carol Conway and dozens of volunteers and donors, have been hard at work delivering peace and mercy to asylum seekers in Chicago.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Holy Cross Sr. Sharlet Wagner learned about the enduring power of faith and hope from her clients when she worked for an immigration legal services program in Utah.
In many ways, Sr. Norma Pimentel, a Missionary of Jesus, has become the face of the Catholic response to migrants in the Rio Grande Valley, where she leads Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Brownsville.
The increase in migration has shelters along the route at capacity, but places such as CAFEMIN in Mexico City, run by the Josephine sisters, are among the few stops where migrants are still welcomed, despite overcrowding.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Not until she was working with unaccompanied minors in US Immigration Services did Sr. Trish Doan realize the truth: As a Vietnamese refugee, she herself had been an unaccompanied minor.
Catholics at the U.S.-Mexico border, including many sisters, are working to better assess how to help migrants and to talk about what they have learned and how to go forward post-Title 42.
With an increase of migrants arriving at La Frontera, a shelter run by Catholic Charities in Laredo, Texas, Notre Dame sisters find ways to accommodate this influx as they recruit more volunteers.