TOPEKA (KSNT) – With growing safety concerns in the Capital City, some Topeka neighborhoods are hosting events to replace trick-or-treating this Halloween. ShaMecha King Simms, president of Historic Old Town Neighborhood Improvement Association (NIA), told 27 News child safety is at the top of people’s minds this year. She said schools and churches in her […]
Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, is pictured in an undated photo holding her her godchild at the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The baby s birth, like most births at the camp, posed a risk to the mother and baby, as medical attention is not a given. (CNS photo/courtesy Sister Norma Pimentel) Feb. 18. 2021 Catholic News Service At the Gateway International Bridge that links Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, a group of volunteers and Catholic sisters pull portable carts with diapers, tents, food and supplies. They cross the border into Mexico on foot, a small caravan of about 10-20 people. Their destination is the migrant camp on the other side, where asylum-seekers wait in tents for their chance to plead their cases before an immigration judge.