Immigration
ArticlePat Murphy and Joann Persch: Two Nuns Determined to Help Detained ImmigrantsThis radio documentary was produced by KALW’s The Spiritual Edge, with the support of CRCC’s global project on engaged spirituality. To hear this and other profiles, subscribe to The Spiritual Edge podcast in your …Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Engaged Spirituality, Immigration, Spiritual Exemplars- VideoGod’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants
ArticleFouzia Azizi: A Helping Hand for Afghan RefugeesFouzia Azizi vividly recalls the night her family fled Afghanistan nearly 30 years ago. Fearing for their lives, they crossed the border into Pakistan. They traveled lightly, expecting to return soon. “I …Topics: Diane Winston, Engaged Spirituality, Immigration, Racial Justice, Spiritual Exemplars- VideoSister Networks Building Hope at the US/Mexico Border
ArticleSonia Tinoco García: Responding to Muslim Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico BorderThis article was originally published on New Lines Magazine, with the support of CRCC’s global project on engaged spirituality. It’s late afternoon in Tijuana, and the air is hot and thick. Hamza — …Topics: Engaged Spirituality, Immigration, Islam, Southern California, Spiritual Exemplars- VideoLayli Miller Muro: Protecting the Rights of Migrants
CommentaryHolistic Resilience: Why Some Spiritual Exemplars Question Suffering as a Path to ResilienceWhen CRCC’s “Spiritual Exemplars Project” team was invited to present about “resilience,” it was easy to think of many examples within our sample of 100+ spiritually engaged humanitarians who had endured and …Topics: Catholicism, Economic Justice, Engaged Spirituality, Hebah Farrag, Immigration, Judaism, Racial Justice, Religious Leadership, Spiritual Exemplars- VideoSister Norma Pimentel: The Hands and Voice of God for Migrants at the US/Mexico Border
CommentaryWhy They Cross the Mediterranean: Italy’s ‘Guardian Angel of Refugees’ in Conversation with a Survivor of the 2013 Lampedusa ShipwreckFor nearly 20 years, Eritrean Catholic Priest Mussie Zerai has fielded thousands of distress calls from refugees and migrants on shipwrecked vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. “I’ve heard the voices. I’ve heard …Topics: Catholicism, Engaged Spirituality, Immigration, Spiritual Exemplars- VideoFather Mussie Zerai: The Migrant Priest