Mexican border state: costs of ‘migrant crisis’ reach nearly $US1 billion
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The costs of spiking migration for a key Mexican border state due to a sharp downturn in US-bound cargo trucks total nearly $US1 billion over about two weeks, state officials said Tuesday, as authorities in both countries struggle with the latest surge. The state government of Chihuahua announced in a statement that […]
Conquistador statue reinstallation in US state of New Mexico stopped after protests
Espanola, New Mexico, USReuters A New Mexico county halted the reinstallation of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador statue on Wednesday after protests over the return of the bronze figure, removed three years ago during nationwide anti-racism demonstrations. The northern county of Rio Arriba postponed a Thursday reinstatement ceremony after activists occupied a concrete pedestal in the […]
Addressing an epidemic: How Native American police are fighting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women
ANDREW HAY, of Reuters, reports on efforts to address the US epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives…
New Mexican Spanish: A unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the role Catholic brotherhoods are playing in preserving a dialect which evolved from the mixing of Spanish and Indigenous languages…
Dust to dust?: New Mexicans fight to save old adobe churches
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports from the US state of New Mexico on efforts to preserve historic places of worship and the uniquely New Mexican way of life they represent…
Faith guides Catholic pilgrims to historic New Mexico sites
United StatesAP Thousands of Catholics are making the trek to a historic adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico as part of a Holy Week tradition that spans generations, carrying heavy wooden crosses and praying as they make their way through the high desert landscape. El Santuario de Chimayó just north of Santa […]
Head of US Catholic diocese urges nuclear disarmament talks
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USAP The head of one of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States says now is the time to rejuvenate and sustain a global conversation about the need for nuclear disarmament and how to develop ways to avoid a new nuclear arms race. Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester released a […]
US state of New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USAP/Report for America New Mexico has become the latest US state to provide a legal pathway for terminally ill patients to choose when and how they die. On Thursday, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named for a New Mexico judge who advocated for medically assisted […]
US: IN NEW MEXICO TOWN, SINGLE PARENTS GET FREE RENT, BENEFITS – IF THEY GO TO CHURCH
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, in an article first published by ‘The Christian Chronicle’, reports…
Iraqi refugee in New Mexico leaves church sanctuary after two years
RNS Kadhim Al-bumohammed, a 66-year-old Muslim refugee from Iraq who trained tens of thousands of US soldiers in Arabic and Arab culture, walked out of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, church basement last month a free man. Al-bumohammed had spent two years inside of First Congregational United Church of Christ seeking sanctuary from deportation. Kadhim Al-bumohammed, […]