FAMVIN News

According to the Huffinton Post ”In the state that signed into law the country’s most controversial and stringent immigration measure, SB-1070 in 2010, a new smartphone app is under way to help undocumented immigrants notify friends and family of their exact location, should they be pulled over and arrested.This app would send a pre-set message to all those [...]

Father Jack Kane, CM, Director of Hispanic Ministry for the Archdiocese of Mobile and Pastor, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Opelika, Alabama has been championing immigration reform in Alabama. And he is attracting attention to their plight. “It is a dark day for Alabama and for America when politicians praise a law that dehumanizes people and pushes [...]

Ten communities of religious sisters issued billboards Monday across Iowa with a Gospel message in addition to a statement calling on the president and Congress to make progress on comprehensive immigration reform in advance the Iowa caucuses. The billboards read, “I was an immigrant and you welcomed me” with a strikethrough the phrase “a stranger” [...]

DePaul University and St. Johns University are  co-hosting the Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic’s Immigration Law Reform Conference on Thursday, October 24, from 8:45am to 1:00pm This conference seeks to broaden the conversation about immigration reform, and highlight the consequences of failure to reform our current immigration system.  Topics covered will include consequences of inaction [...]

“Our Father in Heaven Does Not Make Some Nationalities or Racial Groups to Be ‘Inferior’” (Zenit.org).- Here is an adapted version of an address given by Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles on July 28 at the Napa Institute. L’Osservatore Romano published this version Aug. 11. * * * Our political debate about immigration in America [...]

Sister Eleanor Reunites Immigrant Families - She dreamed of entering the Foreign Service. But in the early 1960s, women weren’t admitted to Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Undeterred, she sought another path.  She became a novitiate at the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.  Embracing their mission of social justice on an international scale, she has spent decades [...]

The Mission Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, founded by Thomas Judge CM, write “We, as Missionary Servants of the Most Holy with the Bishop’s of the Catholic Church in the United States in urging the passage of a comprehensive and humane immigration reform.Comprehensive reform needs to include the following: global anti-poverty efforts, expanded opportunities to reunify families, a temporary worker [...]

“Eucharist Without Borders: God’s Welcoming Table and Comprehensive Immigration Reform” will explore the Catholic church’s calling to promote just immigration policy reform. The title of this conference highlights the truth that the Christian church cannot celebrate Eucharist and ignore the plight of undocumented immigrants. For Catholics, wherever Mass is celebrated, there can be no strangers, [...]

Sister Germaine Price, representing the Company of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations, shares the news of the serious concern for migrants and their families. The United Nations General Assembly’s thematic debate on international migration and development was held in New York on May 19, 2011 with a call for a cooperative, positive [...]

In Latino communities, re-enactments are held commemorating Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter in Bethlehem — a place for Jesus to be born. The tradition is called Las Posadas, which literally means “the inns” in Spanish. For people of faith who are concerned about the plight of immigrants, this ancient ritual has become a call [...]