As COVID-19 cases in North Texas rise again, Dallas Area Interfaith leaders and Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Gregory Kelly fight for relief for undocumented immigrants. Says Bishop Kelly: "They don't have any...
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[Excerpts] Because of language barriers, Texas risks leaving some of the state’s marginalized communities even more vulnerable to contracting the virus while making it more difficult to access resources needed...
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[Excerpt] On a balmy day at the St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church in East Dallas, parishioners working with the nonprofit Dallas Area Interfaith talked among themselves about problems they...
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[Excerpts] ...workers who labor shoulder to shoulder at the plant and others fear the contagion has spread to more people in the Dallas area. Sick workers who do not get...
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[Excerpt] At St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Irving, Rev. Ernesto Esqueda said the church will support the workers with food and other needs during the pandemic. “We are all walking...
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[Translated excerpt below] "It's a good start", said Josephine López Paul, organizer with Dallas Area Interfaith, a nonprofit organization that helped create the County housing assistance program. "It's a down...
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After DAI organized judicatory leaders and clergy from every major religion in Dallas, and the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas, to testify in support of short-term supports for low-income renters...
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[Excerpt] On a recent Saturday, the priest passed out bags of eggs, beans, rice, tomatoes and chicken and sprinted like a grocery store clerk to families waiting in a long...
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[Excerpts] “It’s a special time with everything that’s happening because of the pandemic, but we have to think of our homes as having converted into our church where the word...
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[Excerpt] While health and government officials work to manage the outbreak, families are struggling to pay bills and buy groceries. Josephine Lopez Paul, the lead organizer for the Dallas Area...
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