Sisters from various congregations journeyed from San Diego via the cold desert toward Mexico, to see what the landscape, migrants and the Holy Spirit had to say to them during a five-day border pilgrimage.
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.
Costa Rica has become a place where itinerant flows of people fleeing economic and political crises in Latin America mingle — some staying, some moving on — and women religious there have joined forces to respond.
Migrants and asylum-seekers endure deplorable conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholic sisters from three congregations have moved to the McAllen, Texas, area to minister permanently to those in great need.