Juarez / El Paso
The House that God Builds
We didn’t build the new Columban Mission Center from the ground up. It was an old two-story house, probably built in the 1920s, not far from downtown El Paso, Texas. But Fr. Bill Morton and many local friends put a …
Categories: Juarez / El Paso, Reflections, eJourney
E-journey: Alternative Black Friday
Social justice organizations from the Borderlands area (El Paso, Las Cruces and Juarez) gathered in the Columban Mission Center on November 25th to offer an “Alternative Black Friday” market of goods from developing nations and communities for the vulnerable. Many …
Categories: Juarez / El Paso, eJourney
E-journey: Alternative Black Friday
Social justice organizations from the Borderlands area (El Paso, Las Cruces and Juarez) gathered in the Columban Mission Center on November 25th to offer an “Alternative Black Friday” market of goods from developing nations and communities for the vulnerable. Many …
Categories: Juarez / El Paso, Reflections, eJourney
Reason for Hope at the Border
Many of us have heard about the unsettling numbers of murders that have taken place in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the last five years, but most of us don’t know about the positive things happening there. Despite the violence, Columban …
Categories: E-Newsletter, Juarez / El Paso
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
Mission Exposure Team Leaves for China
Five local Catholics flew out of the El Paso, Texas, airport this evening, bound for China. “We ask for your prayers,” wrote one of the five, Eina L. Holder, shortly before boarding, “as we walk in the footsteps of the …
Categories: China, Juarez / El Paso
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
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
