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Prayers for Peacemakers, 15 April 2020 U.S./Mexico Borderlands

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As the U.S. government uses the excuse of the coronavirus outbreak to make the closure of the U.S./Mexican border even more inflexible, please pray for the people in Agua Prieta, Sonora, waiting to request asylum in the U.S. and for the staff and volunteers at CAME—Centro de Atencion al Migrante “Exodus”—the migrant shelter where the asylum seekers are staying. In the middle of March, U.S. Customs officials stopped accepting asylum requests.

U.S. /MEXICO BORDERLANDS: Prayers for Peacemakers 11 March 2020

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Pray with those in Douglas, Arizona who hold a vigil every Tuesday for migrants who have died in Cochise county trying to cross the U.S. Mexico Border.

Prayers for Peacemakers 29 January 2020 U.S/Mexico Borderlands

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Please pray for the individuals and families who are making the dangerous migration through Mexico to the U.S. Border. May they be safe from those who would exploit them along the way and may they remain together in God’s loving care as they seek entry into the United States.

U.S./MEXICO BORDERLANDS: Specifics and the Systems on the Border

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It's easy to get lost in the daily needs, or discouraged by the magnitude of the crushing oppression on the U.S.-Mexico border. CPT's mission to back partners as a part of transforming violence and oppression requires us to attend to the details of the immediate situation, and to the sources of the oppression that grows into violence. Between the specifics and the systems, our presence and action strategically strengthen the forces for good.

BORDERLANDS REFLECTION: Holy Family seeks asylum

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They dared to leave before they were killed. They dared to look for refuge in the belly of a beast that had a great part in creating the conditions of violence in their land.

Prayers for Peacemakers, 18 December 2019

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Please pray for the asylum seekers waiting in Agua Prieta, Sonora who are knocking on the doors of the U.S. asking to come in from the cold and the hunger and the sickness and the violence. Pray for the volunteers from both countries who are providing support for these people. Pray for the U.S. Customs workers who stand at the door, and pray for U.S. government officials that they might find a way to provide welcome.

U.S./MEXICO BORDERLANDS: A migrant shelter, a feast, and a Great Light

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The heart of Advent is laid bare in immigrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border. These communities expose the gritty side of Advent hope. The guests reside in a transitional space between a home they can no longer live in and a country that refuses to accept them. Between laughter and fear. Between tears and hope. In the rain. In the chill of night. In tents. In bunks or just under blankets. Their hope is palpable despite the facts. Their patience expectant. Their faith more durable than the nearby, new 30-foot wall and the fear that builds it. Theirs is not a cheap hope. They are the Light of which Isaiah wrote.

U.S./MEXICO BORDERLANDS: Border wall art simultaneously expresses hope and resistance

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Raised in both Douglas, Arizona and nearby Agua Prieta, which is just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, artist and community college instructor M. Jenea Sanchez has an interest in the kind of public art that is a simultaneous expression of hope and resistance—hence the colorful, eye-catching mural that she and about 20 workshop attendees designed and painted on the Mexico side of the border wall in Agua Prieta on 15 November as the opener to “Responding to an Exodus: Gospel Hospitality and Empire.”

Prayers for Peacemakers 30 October 2019 U.S./Mexico Borderlands

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This shelter, sitting on the Mexican side of the border wall at the U.S. port of entry, is the last stop for people who have come to Agua Prieta, Sonora, to seek asylum in the US. The campamento—or camp—is the end of a weeks’-long, or even months’-long journey. Now these people live at the shelter, waiting for their turn to request asylum. That wait took seven to ten days last summer but has now stretched to twice that long as the U.S. customs officials accept fewer and fewer people. In addition, because of pressure from the Mexican authorities, people will soon no longer be able to sleep in the camp.

Prayers for Peacemakers 2 October 2019 U.S./Mexico Borderlands

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Please pray for patience on the part of asylum seekers trying to enter the U.S. They bear great anxieties for themselves and their families as they think about what they fled, and what they will do if they are denied entry. Please pray for empathy and understanding on the part of customs officers at the border. Help them to consider carefully the violence and living conditions these asylum seekers have left behind.

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