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Keep the Doors Open
For 38 years, the triangular red-brick building of Annunciation House has been both a symbol and a center for hospitality to the migrant and the refugee. Now over a hundred years old, the building is in desperate need of repairs: … Continue reading
Posted in House News and Announcements, Request, Uncategorized
Tagged border, capital campaign, El Paso, keep the doors open
The Mystery of Divine Mercy
Pope Francis gave this homily at the Mass celebrated on the Juarez-El Paso border this past week, February 17. Let us join him in his plea for those involved in the “human tragedy” of forced migration: “No more death! No more … Continue reading
Posted in Media and Commentary
Tagged border, catholic church, forced migration, immigration, mass, mercy, Pope Francis
Nazareth House: High Turnover Hospitality
Background: Since the summer of 2014, when the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began detaining large numbers of Central American migrants along our southern border and releasing them in El Paso, Annunciation House has been providing temporary hospitality and … Continue reading
Posted in House News and Announcements, Request
Tagged border, Central America, ICE, South Texas Immigrant Response, STIR, volunteer
Join Director Ruben Garcia in Conversation on Race, Violence, and Authority
Juan Patricio Peraza Quijada, a 19-year-old guest at Annunciation House, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent while taking out the trash in February 2003. Since then, there have been far too many tragedies like this, where young men … Continue reading
Posted in House News and Announcements
Tagged action, border patrol, Juan Patricio, race, UTEP, violence
The Crisis of Moral Integrity
Amid the cacophony of voices vying for ear space on the “immigrant crisis,” few have succeeded in identifying the real crisis–the crisis of moral integrity. Whenever and wherever human beings suffer, it is the moral integrity of those around them–they … Continue reading
Posted in Lives
Tagged border, crisis, immigrant, moral integrity, social justice
House Democrats call for end to the shame of family detention
In this video, El Paso Representative Beto O’Rourke and other House Democrats speak out to urge our government to end the detention of Central American women and children who have been detained at our southern border. Most of them are … Continue reading
Posted in Media and Commentary
Tagged artesia, asylum, Beto O'Rourke, border, detention, human rights, immigration
2015 Voice of the Voiceless Award Presented in Absentia
This past Saturday evening, April 18, Annunciation House held its twelfth annual Voice of the Voiceless Solidarity Dinner to bring attention to issues surrounding immigration and social justice. Padre Alejandro Solalinde, Mexican Catholic priest and founder of the migrant shelter … Continue reading
ALTO VIOLENCIA!
Today Annunciation House and companions are gathering at the Mexican consulate in El Paso to protest the violence and threats of violence that have been perpetrated on two colleagues of Padre Alejandro Solalinde, our 2015 Voice of the Voiceless Honoree. … Continue reading →