by Marv Knox | Jun 17, 2020 | Opinion
On the U.S.-Mexico border, pain eclipses politics. Refugees’ tears paint portraits of pure pain. A pre-pandemic visit to immigrant shelters puts flesh and blood on agony and flickers of hope embodied in immigrants crowded across northern Mexico, seeking U.S. asylum....
by Marv Knox | Mar 27, 2020 | News
Compassion and concern, faith and fear, respect and resolve crackled across the country as pastors who comprise Fellowship Southwest’s ministry to asylum-seekers talked on the phone March 25. They spent almost two hours telling each other about their work with...
by Marv Knox | Mar 23, 2020 | News
Lorenzo Ortiz, a Texas pastor who operates three immigrant shelters in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, stayed behind when the U.S. and Mexican governments closed the border to all “nonessential” travel at midnight Saturday, March 21. Mutual concern about the transmission of the...
by Marv Knox | Aug 7, 2019 | Opinion
Gunshots that slaughtered at least 22 people in El Paso, Texas, last Saturday echoed around the world. They particularly reverberated in the hearts of residents of the American Southwest. The murderer (Let’s refuse to placate the perversion of mass murderers by...
by Marv Knox | Nov 5, 2018 | News
Pastors and ministry leaders on both sides of the Mexico-United States border are gearing up to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the immigrant caravan that began in Latin America and now is marching through Mexico toward the United States. A coalition of...