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March 25, 2021 8:24 AM

DAI 'Recognizing the Stranger' Trainees to Welcome Migrant Teens

[Excerpts] As federal officials announced that a downtown Dallas facility had been chosen to house up to 3,000 migrant teenagers starting the week of March 15, the Catholic faithful in...

March 18, 2021 6:32 AM

DAI Leaders to Welcome the Stranger (Unaccompanied Migrant Teens) to Dallas

[Excerpt] Dallas Area Interfaith, a non-partisan group, made up of multiple religious congregations in the metroplex, is on standby to provide translation services per Lead Organizer Josephine Lopez Paul. The...

March 10, 2021 5:56 PM

DAI Sounds Alarm on Lack of Water and Safe Housing After the Storm

[In photo above, Maria Magarin of San Juan Diego Catholic holds her six-month old son and evaluates the water damage sustained to her apartment in far northeast Dallas. Magarin lost hot water...

February 26, 2021 10:29 AM

Bishops Greg Kelly and Daniel E. Flores Call for Accountability to Prevent Future Failures in the Electrical Grid

[Excerpt below] While we desperately need immediate relief, we must also seek long-term systemic change. As faith leaders, we have a responsibility to cry out for the vulnerable and seek...

February 20, 2021 5:12 PM

DAI Confronts Texas' Energy, Politics and Culture

[Excerpts] Texans did what they could in the dark. They filled hotels to capacity. Others found refuge in warming stations, sleeping on buses. Some who stayed home lit small fires...

February 19, 2021 5:22 PM

DAI & Texas IAF Declare State Power Failure 'Act of Sheer Negligence,' Accountability by Elected Officials Demanded

While state officials announced later in the day that power had stabilized and forced shutoffs were no longer needed, more than 300,000 households remained without power....Texas was especially hard hit...

February 17, 2021 1:39 PM

As North Texas Freezes, DAI Pulls Community Together

“We don’t have control over the virus, the economy, our electricity. But a deep belief in other people can get you through a lot,” Lopez Paul said.... The series of...

January 12, 2021 4:25 PM

With Evictions Looming, DAI Fights to Keep People Housed

[Excerpts] While some communities have allocated a significant share of CARES Act funds for rental assistance, Dallas has not. Housing advocates have criticized the city for complicating the application process...

November 29, 2020 10:34 AM

Dallas Area Interfaith Sounds Alarm on Unspent Millions in Rental Aid

[Excerpts] Before the coronavirus pandemic thrashed the country, Maria Ramirez and her husband made plenty of money to afford their modest two-bedroom apartment in northeast Dallas. Now they owe more than $4,000...

November 06, 2020 11:40 AM

DAI Targets Latino Voters in North Texas House and Congressional Districts

[Excerpts] The San Juan Diego Catholic Parish in northwest Dallas was a flurry of activity Saturday afternoon. The nonpartisan political nonprofit is one of several groups in Dallas and across...

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