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...
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 involved in organizing made an announcement that...
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 Los Angeles and approximately 200 One LA...