Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Court battle to keep Annunciation House open underscores how faith groups strive to welcome strangers in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment

  • Written by Laura E. Alexander, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
Court battle to keep Annunciation House open underscores how faith groups strive to welcome strangers in the face of anti-immigrant sentimentImmigrants from Honduras recount their separation from their children at the border during a news conference in 2018 at Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas.AP Photo/Matt York

Over the past few months, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been locked in a court battle with Annunciation House, a network of shelters in the El Paso area that assists...

Read more: Court battle to keep Annunciation House open underscores how faith groups strive to welcome...

More Articles ...

  1. Lincoln called for divided Americans to heed their ‘better angels,’ and politicians have invoked him ever since in crises − but for Abe, it was more than words
  2. Sure, 2024 has had lots of news – but compared with 1940, 1968 or 1973, it’s nothing exceptional
  3. Retaining flavor while removing caffeine − a chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
  4. Seafloor sediment reveals previously unknown volcanic eruption 520,000 years ago in south Aegean Sea
  5. Worried about the health effects of the sugar in your breakfast cereal? Little has changed since the days of ‘Unfrosted,’ the Pop-Tarts movie
  6. Counter-drug strategies in Central America are worsening deforestation, threatening many species of birds
  7. Athletes looking for a competitive edge may find it within their gut microbiome
  8. Unequal access to quantum information education may limit progress in this emerging field − now is the time to improve
  9. COVID-19 devastated teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered
  10. GOP attacks against Kamala Harris were already bad – they are about to get worse
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more