National Migration Week seeks to put faces on immigration debate
Mark Zimmermann
January 9, 2017
NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
National Migration Week seeks to put faces on immigration debate
People hold signs in late May during a protest in Los Angeles against plans to deport Central American asylum seekers. (Credit: CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters.)
Jan. 8-14, 2017 is National Migration Week for the Catholic Church in the United States, and a director of policy for the U.S. bishops says one trick to changing the conversation on immigration is to put faces and names on statistics and overviews.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The theme for the Jan. 8-14, 2017 National Migration Week commemoration for the Catholic Church in the United States - “Creating a Culture of Encounter” - resonates with Ashley Feasley, because such an encounter changed her life and shaped her life’s work.
When she was a fifth grader attending a Catholic school in Florida, she gained a new classmate and a lifelong friend, when a boy whose family had escaped persecution in Lithuania became part of the school community.
“They were welcomed by the church and the school,” she said of his family.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/and-we-almost-missed-it-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-celebrates-its-national-migration-week/
