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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 8h

"At least the church cannot be silent." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForAmerica elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 12h

"The conversion to the Lord to which solidarity with the oppressed brings us calls for stubbornness and constancy on the road we have undertaken." #GustavoGutierrez #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor #PrayForAmerica

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 16h

“We’re a faith of immigrants — Jesus was an immigrant." #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"Merciful God and Father of all people, wake us from the slumber of indifference, open our eyes to their suffering, and free us from the insensitivity of worldly comfort and self-centeredness." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor #WelcomeTheStranger

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"Is the young adult who came here as a child and loves this nation as the only country he has ever known our neighbor?" #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #LoveThyNeighbor #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

“We are either with the victims or we are with the aggressors; and there is no neutrality." #BishopTapiwa #LiveTheGospel cruxnow.com/church-in-af...

African bishop demands a just society in which ‘there are no Lazaruses’

“Some of our leaders are blind to the destitution of our people, and to the plight of Lazaruses who lie skin and bones on the streets,” said Bishop Raymond Tapiwa Mupandasekwa.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"Nothing is more precious than the person next to us." #PopeFrancis

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"The scriptures point unswervingly to the need to keep the poor and the powerless at the forefront of our thoughts and actions." #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

“When the community opens its doors to those who suffer the most. It grows. It discovers Jesus in new ways and receives his blessing.” #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

Where despair meets mercy: Church’s mission in Colombian slum - Vatican News

In the south of Bogotá, in what was once a middle-class Colombian neighborhood, lies the “Barrio San Bernardo.” Today, this area bears the marks of ...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"I, Brother Francis, little one, want to follow the life and poverty of the Most High, our Lord Jesus Christ, and of his Most Holy Mother, and to persevere in this to the end." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"Christians are not those who go backward." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"Is the man being deported despite the fact that he has three sons who serve in the Marines because of the values he taught them our neighbor?" #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #LoveThyNeighbor #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"It is interesting to consider the phenomenon of traditionalism, this 'backwardism' that regularly returns each century, this reference to a supposed perfect age that each time is another age." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

“Someone who says I am against abortion, but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.” #PopeLeoXIV #RespectLife #PrayForAmerica

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"For my part, I possess a royal dignity and special nobility because I follow the Lord, who was rich but became poor for our sake." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"Let us begin again, for until now we have done nothing." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"What a diabolical reversal...Nobody worries about the blessing of an entrepreneur who exploits people, and this is a grave sin...while there's a public scandal if the pope blesses a divorced woman or a homosexual person." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"Be careful not to look sad like gloomy hypocrites, but show yourselves as happy in the Lord; be cheerful and gracious." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21). #PrayForAmerica

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 6d

"Greet each other lovingly and wholeheartedly; honor each other without ever complaining." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LoveEachOther

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 6d

"Our first obligation as a Church is to embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic and compassionate way the immigrants who are suffering so deeply because of the oppression they are facing." #CardinalMcElroy #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 6d

"Sexual sins tend to cause more of an outcry from some people. But they are not the most serious. They are human sins of the flesh. The most serious, on the contrary, are the sins...that dress themselves in another guise: pride, hatred, falsehood, fraud, and abuse of power." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 7d

"Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence." #Gandhi

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