Pages tagged "Catholic"
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...
Catholic Sun - VIP Supports Parishioners on the Margins
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St. Francis Xavier hosted the first of several “Know Your Rights” sessions in January. These sessions, facilitated by VIP, empower immigrants by helping them understand their constitutional rights. VIP also ran a session to provide more information on...
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...
Pope Meets West/Southwest IAF Leaders Building 'Culture of Solidarity'
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When Pope Francis told a group of U.S. community organizers that their work was "atomic," Jorge Montiel said, "I thought, 'Oh, you mean we blow things up?'"
But instead, the pope spoke about how the groups associated with the West/Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation in...