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Video: Immigration- a New Perspective (Mission Exposure Trip)
From October 16-23, 2011, 9 students from the Creighton Center for Service and Justice visited the Columban Mission Center in El Paso, Texas. They learned about immigration, human rights, the environment in the context of the U.S.-Mexico Border. Upon their …
Categories: Video, border blog
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My Friends Call me Crazy
A few weeks ago I visited Rancho Anapra, the western part of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - known to be the most dangerous city in the entire world because of the competing drug cartels. As I entered the place I never stopped thinking of the …
Categories: Juarez / El Paso, border blog
As Mexican cartels respond to pressure, priests face death, extortion
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (CNS) — Ministering in a city where crime is pervasive and murders occur at an alarming rate, Columban Father Kevin Mullins knows he’s been very fortunate. While he has personally escaped the violence, …
Categories: Juarez / El Paso, border blog
Bishop Ochoa Blesses the Columban Mission Center in El Paso, Texas
Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis
The Columban Mission Center in El Paso began an 8-week Just Matters course entitled “Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis”. The course is being facilitated by Columban Father, Bill Morton and is offered through the Young Adult Ministry of the Diocese of …
Categories: Blogs, Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, Intern Blog, border blog
Like sister, like mother, like son!
Border Blog: 22 September 2011 Fr. Al Utzig and I went to the local premier of a documentary in downtown El Paso, Texas, that relates the history of the wave of violence that is sweeping over Juárez, México since 2006. …
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Reflection on the Mystery of God’s Presence
After the 3 months of language studies in Cuernavaca I returned to my place of assignment, Corpus Christi Parish, Rancho Anapra, Juarez City, Mexico. Juarez belongs to state of Chihuahua. I arrived in Anapra on the 28th of February 2011. …
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Who doesn’t have memories of being called to the table with the love and intimacy that comes with a life shared day-to- day? These also were Jesus’ words to His beloved ones
