By Moravia de la O International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace Amid rising tensions between their governments, yesterday Presidents...

October 4th, 2010 On September 4th, Witness for Peace’s Mexico-based International Team participated in the Catholic Church’s 96th World Day for Migrants and Refugees.  We were asked to pray for migrants on their journey and migrants who have arrived at their destinations, as well as for their families.  We were also asked to contemplate Mexico’s current migration situation, which has become increasingly complicated and tragic.  Just days before the mass 72 migrants from Cent

By Sarah Monroe In the United States, the controversy over immigration is heating up. In my own community in rural Washington state,...

By Arnie Alpert Don Gregorio was one of the first people our Witness for Peace group met in San Juan Sosola, a small village in the...

Pass this video on to your friends by sending them the quick link: witnessforpeace.org/migrating.  Or host a movie night to show the...

This month, polls are showing a decrease in President Obama’s popularity among Latinos in the United States. Some say that the numbers...

June 10th, 2010 Next Chapter Join a delegation to Mexico to learn more about the roots of migration. Download Forced from Home, a WFP...

May 25th, 2010 On March 13 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, gunmen killed a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband while driving in their car,...

By the Mexico International Team At last week’s state meeting between Presidents Felipe Calderón and Barack Obama, the Mexican leader...

by Craig Hennecke As legislation for health care reform was debated and passed in Washington, an equally pressing topic was waiting on...

by Tony Macias, Mexico International Team “We know that our life is here in the earth, in the water,” declared a speaker at a recent...

Long Island, regarded as one of the most segregated suburbs in the U.S., has consistently made national headlines in the last decade for...

by Jess Hunter-Bowman, WFP Associate Director Unless you live on the moon (or aren’t a political junkie like me), you probably heard that...

October 21st, 2009 When NAFTA was implemented in 1994, Mexicans were told that increases in trade, foreign direct investment, and exports...

May 12th, 2009 On August 5, 2008 a group of 120 residents of Santiago Lachivia, a Zapotec town in Oaxaca, Mexico, was preparing land for...

March 23rd, 2009 Watch Witness for Peace National Grassroots Organizer Ben Beachy break down the Merida Initiative in the context of...

March 17th, 2009 The historic campaign and election of President Barack Obama spurred much talk of hope and change in the U.S.  Our...

August 25th, 2008 Fidel Santiago Martinez stands on the southern side of the U.S./Mexican border, a man-made line that snakes 2,000 miles...

July 29th, 2008 photo: Andrew O’Brien By Alexis Ball Witness for Peace International Team – Mexico I fought back tears as we walked in...