Pages tagged "California IAF"

CVIAF Immigrant Leaders Ally with Law Enforcement for Street Safety in Fresno, CA

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This may look like an ordinary stop sign.

However, for residents of Southeast Fresno, it represents a hard-fought victory in making their community safer.

Before this week, the intersection along South Avenue—a busy road cutting through city and rural farmland—was only a two-way stop. It was a...

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US Catholic: Community Organizing is Synodality in Action


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Ortencia Ramirez, a member of OneLA (a local IAF group) started organizing in her parish because “all my life, I saw the struggles in my community,” she says. One day at church, a man who was...

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One LA Partners with Office of Life, Justice and Peace and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on the Social Mission of the Church

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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez met with One LA-IAF on March 12 for a two-hour conversation about the Eucharist and the social mission of the Catholic Church. The event was held at St. Brigid Catholic Church in South...

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