ISSUES & ADVOCACY
Sister Norma Pimentel shares border realities with local social justice advocates
As the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, Missionaries of Jesus Sister Norma Pimentel can see hundreds of faces a day during her work along the U.S.-Mexico border.
50 years since White House conference on food, hunger issues remain
Fifty years ago, the White House sponsored a Dec. 2-4 conference on food, nutrition and health...
Most Americans support life in prison over death penalty, says new poll
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} Most Americans support life imprisonment over the death penalty, according to a Gallup poll released Nov. 24, revealing a shift in the majority opinion on this issue for the first time in 34 years.
Victims of Christian persecution remembered at 'Night of Witness' service
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} A chalice from a Catholic parish in Qaraqosh, in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq, scarred by bullets from Islamic State militants was a mute witness at a vespers service for Christian martyrs.
Five Gulf South states rank at bottom of 'social justice' index
For the third year, states in the Gulf South of the U.S. ranked near the bottom of a 2018 "social justice" index.
Immigration counselor uses own experience as refugee to help newcomers
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} Even after 36 years at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay, So Thao isn't thinking about retirement. His job, as an accredited immigration counselor, is too fulfilling.
SVDP furniture ministry in need of charitable help
With funds running dangerously low, the Vincent’s Legacy furniture ministry has launched a handbag fundraising initiative.
Catholic Charities program strives to ease chronic homelessness
An experimental program to address chronic homelessness is guiding people into permanent housing ...
Faith community aiding homeless with craft fair
St. Dominic Parish's craft fair will feature whimsical mailboxes crafted by homeless workers...
Farmingdale parish gathers youth, community for discussion on addiction, mental health
When it comes to behavioral health issues and addiction, awareness is a step in the right direction.
Federal court grants Florida death-row inmate temporary stay
James Dailey, a prisoner who has been on Florida's death row for more than three decades and maintained his innocence, was granted a temporary stay of execution.
Big push made for Mexican premiere of 'Unplanned' movie
For the Oct. 25 premiere in Mexico of the Spanish-language version of "Unplanned," actor Eduardo Verastegui, the movie's executive director, has employed a 32-state strategy.
Report outlines dangers assisted suicide laws pose to those with disabilities
The National Council on Disability said in a new study that "the dangers and harms" physician-assisted suicide laws present to people with disabilities "appear to be as significant today" as they were in 1997 and 2005, when the council earlier analyzed the harms of such laws.
Immigration advocates take part in teach-in event at U.S.-Mexico border
Catholic Latino organizers, labor leaders, scholars and activists took part in a social justice event that was...
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