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A Quiet Sunday Morning
We are deeply grateful to God for the privilege of being here and living with such outstanding people in Mexico’s most violent city. We see the evidence of this on a daily basis. When the victims turn out to be friends, …
Categories: 2012, E-Newsletter, Juarez / El Paso, border blog
Education Amidst Violence
The Columban Study Center in Anapra, Mexico I recently met the sparkling and energetic Cristina, who manages for the Columbans, a library and study center for 385 school-aged children in Rancho Anapra, the residential area covered by our Columban parish …
Categories: Magazine, Magazine Archive, border blog
Processing Lives in El Paso
In a recent visit to the detainees at a holding facility run by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), here in El Paso, Texas, I received my visitor’s badge from the armed security officers, and we greeted each other …
Categories: Juarez / El Paso, border blog
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. …
Categories: Blogs, border blog
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. …
Categories: border blog
