El amor cruza fronteras / Love crosses borders
People stepping off deportation planes often do so in shoes without laces—another small indignity in a much larger unraveling. What happens when someone who has lived that reality returns to meet them with dignity, presence, and care?
At Casa Alterna, unexpected challenges foster unity and compassion. When eight asylum seekers arrived, long-term residents eagerly offered support, turning their own experiences into acts of healing. Together, they shared food, culture, and stories, creating moments of joy and hope. Such connections enhance our shared humanity and vision for a more beautiful world.
"This is my broken body, offered in sacrifice for Christ and compassionate solidarity with those enduring unjust suffering today."
Your gifts help curb literal and figurative hunger pangs as asylum seekers strive to fill a craving for justice.
Hospitality is a spiritual practice that reveals what our hearts believe.
Life is one long journey. Along the way we encounter unexpected turns and moments when we wish we could just turn around but can't.
Anton Flores-Maisonet (B.S.W. ’92) frequently commutes from Decatur, Ga., to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to provide hospitality, assistance and accompaniment to recently arrived immigrants and asylum seekers at no cost.
Jorge, with watery eyes proclaimed to YeldĂn, "Seguramente, Dios está con nosotros." ("Surely, God is with us.")
As travelers milled about Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on a recent Thursday afternoon, an unmarked white van came to a stop beside the airport’s domestic terminal, having completed its two-hour trip from a sprawling immigration detention facility in Southwest Georgia.
The unspeakable happened; B.'s beloved suffered a miscarriage.
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