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3 slides Credit: Courtesy of Vanessa Delgado It s Complicated: why some Northwest Latinx residents and farmworkers hesitate on Covid Vaccine By Vanessa Delgadoâs dad didnât want to take a whole unpaid day off of work to get a vaccine appointment. Sheâs working on her doctorate in Irvine, Calif., but helped her father, Victor Delgado, get a vaccine close to his home in Benton County, Wash. âIn my own personal experience, itâs been very complicated,â she says. âWorking around schedules of essential workers but then also making sure that, OK, he canât travel too far, he canât go all the way to Yakima on a work day, that would be just too far.â ....
Dr. Mayank Amin administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Helen Pepe, 94, at a clinic in Collegeville, Pa., March 7, 2021. (CNS photo/Hannah Beier, Reuters) Bishop Joseph Tyson’s message is clear and concise: “It is not a sin to get a vaccine.” The Diocese of Yakima serves the Catholic community in central Washington State, home to a large population of farmworkers from Mexico and Latin America. The area was hit hard in the early days of the pandemic; a priest from the diocese was the first in the United States to contract Covid-19. Bishop Tyson recalled the early days of the pandemic, when masks and hand sanitizer were sparse and illness seemed to threaten everyone. A year later, with a mass vaccination program expected to kick into high gear in the coming months, Bishop Tyson said vaccine hesitancy caused by misinformation about Catholic moral teaching could further threaten already vulnerable communities. ....
Local religious leaders credit Black Lives Matter for progress while acknowledging much work remains. by Updated Dec. 22 1:18 p.m. Arrius Graves dances with a Black Lives Matter flag while marching in South Lake Union on Nov. 3, 2020. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) Black religious leaders in Seattle haven’t always agreed with the direction of this year’s Black Lives Matter movement, but the two branches of this activist spectrum are showing signs of coming together at the end of an unprecedented year of protests and human suffering. This past summer, some religious leaders stood in defense of former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, as others called for her resignation in response to her handling of protests against police brutality after the killing of George Floyd. ....
US priest exonerated in sex abuse case Lawsuit alleged sexual abuse by four priests in the late 1970s and early 1980s Catholic News Service Updated: December 19, 2020 05:55 AM GMT Trending The Yakima Catholic Diocese coat of arms. (Photo: Facebook) A senior priest of the Diocese of Yakima, Father Seamus Kerr, was exonerated as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed against the diocese in 2019 alleging a man from Ellensburg, Washington, was sexually abused by priests at St. Andrew Catholic Church there when he was a minor. On behalf of our client . we acknowledge that the allegations of sexual abuse and improper conduct made against you, including statements in court pleadings and the press, have proven to be false, said a letter to Father Kerr from the attorneys representing the man. ....