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by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2021 | Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the US, Ciudad Juarez, diocese of Davenport, diocese of El Paso, immigrants and refugees, Iowa, Mexico, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
Thirteen-hundred miles from home, a group from the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, on a border immersion trip encountered a young woman with two kids and a car with a flat tire in Ciudad Juárez.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Church in the Americas, Church in the US, Ciudad Juarez, HOPE Border Institute, Immigration, lead, Mexico, News, President Joe Biden, Rio Grande Valley | 0 |
Last Thursday, about 25 families exited a bus near a U.S.-Mexico border bridge near downtown El Paso. They had been flown in from south Texas, where they were apprehended after attempting to enter the country. Now, they faced expulsion into Ciudad Juarez, 800 miles from where they initially crossed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Border program, Ciudad Juarez, Extortion, Jesuit Refugee Services, JRS, Kidnapping, News, Robbery, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Migrants arriving in Ciudad Juárez in recent years have remained stuck in the Mexican border city, unable to claim asylum in the United States and vulnerable to crimes such as kidnapping, robbery and extortion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2020 | Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, immersion trip, Local News, Mexico, New Mexico, News, Totino-Grace | 0 |
The Rio Grande River canal, near the Santa Fe Bridge, is where El Paso, Texas, meets Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. This is the site of an annual border Mass, bringing together those on both sides of the border to share in the Eucharist.
Grace Marchek, a senior at Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, was there at the river for the Mass this past November, along with 11 other students on a service immersion trip.
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