Episcopalian congregation rejoices as asylum-seeker is freed
AN EPISCOPALIAN congregation in San Diego, in the United States, celebrated the release of an asylum-seeker, Constantin Bakala, last week, who had been separated…
AN EPISCOPALIAN congregation in San Diego, in the United States, celebrated the release of an asylum-seeker, Constantin Bakala, last week, who had been separated…
A group of Board of Supervisors candidates and local organizations will call on state legislators Thursday to pass a bill…
Protesters and local political hopefuls are increasing pressure on state lawmakers to pass a bill that would mandate a form of…
A group of Board of Supervisors candidates and local organizations will call on state legislators today to pass a bill…
Un padre congoleño que fue separado de su familia por las autoridades luego de pedir asilo juntos en la frontera…
A Congolese asylum-seeker who had been separated on the U.S. border from his wife and seven children and held in…
An asylum-seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo was reunited with his family in San Diego on Sunday after almost…
The culmination of an emotional 20-month journey unfolded in San Diego Sunday as a father seeking asylum from political persecution…
After 20 months of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment, a Congolese father fighting for political asylum has reunited with…
San Diego may soon be home to a West Coast-version of the Statue of Liberty. Read the full story in…
The San Diego Organizing Project announced Wednesday the appointment of community organizer Dinora Reyna as the nonprofit’s executive director. Read the full…
Faith leaders at one San Diego church called upon Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sunday to parole an asylum-seeking father who…
… en los momentos de dolor, es cuando los creyentes recurren a sus iglesias. “Es el lugar en donde la…
The San Diego Organizing Project, a coalition of 29 local religious congregations, praised the council for its vote. “I have…
The San Diego Organizing Project, a coalition of 29 local religious congregations, praised the council for its vote. “I have…
“Today’s good news on the California Act to Save Lives means we are one step closer to a solution to…
The Assembly Public Safety Committee Tuesday approved a bill co-authored by a San Diego lawmaker that would redefine when law…
A Southeast San Diego church is set to host a presentation by law enforcement on the state’s new anti-profiling law.…
Por su parte, agrupaciones comunitarias como San Diego Organizing Project (Proyecto de Organización de San Diego), reaccionó con beneplácito ante…
“Today, Gov. Newsom showed courage by choosing not what is politically expedient, but rather what advances a culture rooted in…
Por ello, al mediodía del jueves 28 de febrero, los miembros de la familia respaldados por SDOP se manifestaron en…
I received this text in the early evening Oct. 30, 2018, a year after I joined the San Diego Rapid…
Last fall, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement alerted the San Diego Rapid Response Network it would begin releasing asylum-seekers…
She went on to embark on a career as an art therapist, earning degrees in human services, education and counseling,…
Gov. Gavin Newsom and local officials in San Diego on Thursday touted a proposed $25 million in state funding to…
In December, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency released several hundred immigrants at Greyhound bus stations in El Paso,…
Bureaucracy and politics can tie up more significant investments at the local level. Mr. Malone, the executive director of the…
Kevin Malone, one of the founders of San Diego Rapid Response Network, a consortium of faith-based nonprofits in the area,…
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget unveiled Thursday includes emergency funding to assist asylum seekers who have recently entered the United States as well…
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to help a coalition of local nonprofit groups assist asylum seekers…
“They were just being dropped off with nothing — no money, nothing,” said Kevin Malone, one of the founders of…
“The only thing the city and county have done is tell us what we can’t do, how many people we’re…
The San Diego Rapid Response Network is asking state and local leaders for help to house migrants who have been…
The panicked relay of telephone calls began when volunteers found out late Saturday that immigration officials would be releasing two…
One night in late October, volunteers with the San Diego Rapid Response Network received the first of many reports of…
Two parallel fences line either side of the Tijuana river. The southernmost barrier roughly marks the international boundary between the…
What are the remedies to the cruel spectacle of a trumped up military presence on our southern border and the…
A cross-denominational faith group on Friday (October 5) announced their plans to construct what they’re describing as a West Coast…
This past Friday, the first of a series of grassroots events began to crowdfund an ambitious project: a reimagining of…
For millions of immigrants attempting to build a new life in the United States, Lady Liberty became a symbol of…
A San Ysidro church near the border is planning to erect a hilltop welcome statue to send a message of…
A Southern California church is seeking contributions to build a pro-immigrant 40-foot statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking the U.S.-Mexico…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California church near the U.S.-Mexico border is planning to erect a hilltop welcome statue to…
She will stand tall, with a torch held high, on a hilltop in San Ysidro, overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border region.…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California church near the U.S.-Mexico border is planning to erect a hilltop welcome statue to…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California church near the U.S.-Mexico border is planning to erect a hilltop welcome statue to…
San Diego residents and the San Diego Organizing Project announced a fundraising campaign Friday to build a 40-foot statue of…
SAN YSIDRO, Calif. (KGTV) — An effort to construct a 40-foot statue of the Virgin Mary near the US-Mexico border…
San Diego residents and the San Diego Organizing Project announced a fundraising campaign Friday to build a 40-foot statue of…
An activist group is working to build a sculpture on a hilltop close to the border fence in San Ysidro…
Anyone who caught our annual Fall Arts issue probably wasn’t all that surprised to see Trolley Dances featured. Read Full…
Forty years after the passage of the landmark Proposition 13 ballot initiative in California, a coalition of social justice organizations,…
Local Indivisible chapters have joined forces with democracy-loving cultural celebrities at this year’s Comic-Con as it stages its 48th annual…
George Almanon was one of the last residents to remain in PQ Village. “I’m kind of sad and my wife…
On June 26, San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved its largest budget ever: a $6.27 billion budget that…
Defending President Trump’s immigration policy last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called on a higher authority: the Bible. Read Full…
Abby Porth stood in the southern Texas heat outside an imposing rust-red structure that once housed a Walmart superstore. There…
Most Catholics would be opposed to passing a law to keep refugees from coming to the U.S., while an even…
As county supervisors moved forward Tuesday with their $6.27 billion budget for fiscal 2019, more than a dozen San Diegans…
With so many events taking place around the immigration travesty, it seems one may have gone under-noticed. Read Full Article…
STOCKTON — Pastor Curtis Smith began to cry when he heard the voices coming from within the walls of an…
San Diego County expects nearly $500 million in fresh revenue over the fiscal year that begins Sunday, and almost every…
OTAY MESA (California) • From behind the detention centre wall, several women shouted together: “Where are the children?” Protesters from…
Two women with Davis connections participated in a late June trip to the California/Mexico border, which sponsored by a faith-based…
Otay Mesa (United States) (AFP) – “Where are the children?” several women shout together from behind the detention center wall.…
People from all parts of California converged on San Diego Friday to demonstrate against the government’s immigration policy and the…
The US Homeland Security Department said late Saturday the government has reunited 522 children separated from adults as part of…
With so many events taking place around the immigration travesty, it seems one may have gone under-noticed. Read Full Article…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Critics of the Trump Administration’s border policy are set to gather in downtown San Diego to…
CONCORD, CA — President Donald Trump’s plan to crack down on illegal immigration could mean the creation of two California…
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Hundreds of statewide faith leaders marched Saturday afternoon to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, where they…
SAN DIEGO, CA — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of San Diego Saturday in two rallies to protest…
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Hundreds of statewide faith leaders marched Saturday afternoon to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, where they…
MCALLEN, Texas — Protests and rallies around the country Saturday focused on the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border,…
Thousands of people rallied and marched in downtown San Diego and at the border Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s…
SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of demonstrators — many led by statewide faith leaders — marched to the Otay Mesa Detention…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Critics of the Trump Administration’s border policy are set to gather in downtown San Diego to…
Protests took place across the country Saturday amid growing confusion about what an end to separating families caught crossing the…
San Diego religious leaders Saturday marched to the Otay Mesa detention center and called out to immigrants inside “No estas…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officials told KQED they will detain every adult they believe enters the U.S. illegally,…
Despite President Donald Trump’s executive order to end family separation at the border, several thousand protesters rally in San Diego,…
OTAY MESA (KGTV) – Several demonstrations against the separation of migrant families at the border were held in San Diego…
Thousands of people rallied and marched in downtown San Diego and at the border Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s…
Congressional Democrats joined protests of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy Saturday, fanning out from detention centers to protests…
The Trump administration’s policies on immigration have fired up local activists, with protests set for Escondido, San Ysidro, and downtown…
San Diego Organizing Group, an affiliate of Faith In Action, kicks off a weekend of action with prayers for migrant…
The Trump administration is calling for the expanded use of family detention for immigrant parents and children who are stopped…
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris joined hundreds of protesters along the San Diego border with Mexico on Friday to denounce President…
Demonstrators have planned a series of events in San Diego this weekend, to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Read…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – A powerful show of support for migrants being held in detention facilities has hundreds of…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Nearly 300 people began assembling at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in San Ysidro Friday…
I laughed when late-night host Steven Colbert said the President folded like an origami Trump Casino on the child separation…
If there’s one theme about the border that still holds true, it’s that national policies are focused on division –…
Alejandro Baez was born in Jalisco, Mexico, immigrated to the United States as a teen and worked in states as…
Advocates for traditional political parties all-too-often have a vested interest in convincing the public the next election is going to…
District Attorney candidates, Interim DA Summer Stephan and Genevieve Jones-Wright, are expected to speak on the topic of criminal justice…
On the same day the preliminary hearing opened in the sexual misconduct case against San Diego sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fischer,…
Last December, interfaith leaders and a diverse cross section of organizations launched the San Diego Rapid Response Network, an interconnected…
On Monday, May 14, community members had the opportunity to listen from San Diego County District Attorney candidate Genevieve Jones-Wright…
In Lincoln Park, the issue of criminal justice was addressed at a public forum. Read Full Article by KUSI
Debate dodging, a suggestion of pay-to-play among her supporters, and the hint of a visit to a Thai whorehouse add…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — In three weeks San Diego County will elect its next district attorney, and in a recent…
The Union-Tribune and Times of San Diego have both posted stories about a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit filed…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has voted to support the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California’s…
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to join the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the state of California…
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors will vote in a closed session today on whether to join the Federal…
NBC 7’s Melissa Adan reports on how both sides of the issue held public rallies in advance of Tuesday’s Board…
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Elected officials, including Escondido Mayor Sam Abed and San Marcos Mayor Jim Desmond, and a group…
Adela Santos and her four children have lived in fear since her husband was deported in December. Read Full Article…
Scroll down to: Opinion: Employers, Brace for Immigration Crackdown In a VOSD commentary, general contractor and architecture firm owner Francisco Garcia…
When an individual sees immigration officers in their neighborhood or they themselves are being arrested, they can turn to the…
As a general contractor and owner of an architecture firm, I know the importance of the relationship between a business…
A little over three months after launching a volunteer-driven campaign to shield undocumented San Diegans from immigration action and assist…
While much of the local media’s attention was focused on President Trump’s March 13 visit to the border wall prototypes…
While much of the local media’s attention was focused on President Trump’s March 13 visit to the border wall prototypes…
SAN DIEGO (CNS) — Religious leaders are recognizing they have a unique role in helping improve relations among law enforcement…
MEXICO CITY, March 14 (Xinhua) — Near the fence separates the Mexican city of Tijuana from the U.S. city of…
On Tuesday, Air Force One touched down at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station under an overcast sky. Read Full Article…
March 12, 2018 (San Diego) — President Donald Trump is coming to San Diego this Tuesday to view eight border…
This week the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, confirmed that President Donald Trump will make his first official…
The San Diego City Council approved on Monday construction of a 600-unit housing complex in Rancho Peñasquitos that could become…
On Monday, the San Diego City Council will consider a proposal to demolish hundreds of housing units at Peñasquitos Village,…
A Catholic church in Barrio Logan is mailing valentines to President Donald Trump to ask him to support a “clean…
SAN DIEGO, CA — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors did not heed the calls of residents who sounded…
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors did not heed the calls of residents who sounded off Wednesday against its…
Trust. With it, there is confidence, dependability and a positive sense of faith, hope and reliance to make a situation,…
In response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, San Diego immigration advocates came together in December to officially…
Norma Chavez-Peterson has spent a significant part of her career working on immigrant rights. Read Full Article by San Diego…
On December 19th, interfaith leaders and a diverse cross section of organizations launched the San Diego Rapid Response Network, an…
The city of San Diego recently embarked on a process of hiring a new police chief to replace retiring Chief…
Immigrants in San Diego now have a 24-hour hotline where they can get legal advice and report Border Patrol checkpoints,…
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Advocates, faith leaders, attorneys and immigrant families gathered Tuesday night for the launch of the San…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – Advocates, faith leaders, attorneys and immigrant families gathered Tuesday for the launch of the San…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – Advocates, faith leaders, attorneys and immigrant families gathered Tuesday for the launch of the San…
With a local rabbi calling their efforts “sacred and holy work,” local church and rights groups are vowing to monitor…
People who see immigration officers knocking at their doors — or their neighbors’ — in San Diego County can now…
SAN DIEGO – Advocates, faith leaders, attorneys and immigrant families will gather Tuesday evening for the launch of the San…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — San Diegans are giving in a big way, pledging to protect families by volunteering for a…
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Advocates, faith leaders, attorneys and immigrant families will gather Tuesday night for the launch of the…
RANCHO PENASQUITOS (KUSI) — Two hundred low-income families and seniors are on the verge of losing their homes in Rancho…
Discussions about the possibilities of fewer immigrants to the United States being granted work visas have local businesses concerned. Read…
A pop-up press conference opened Monday, uplifting Dreamers at Liberty Station on Truxtun Road in San Diego. Read Full Article…
Artists with a traveling art installation began pasting photos of San Diegans’ faces on a Liberty Station building on Monday…
A little more than a week after Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 54, a blockbuster bill that prohibits state and…
A little more than a week after Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 54, a blockbuster bill that prohibits state and…
October 18, 2017 (La Mesa) — You’re invited to join La Mesa Conversations and La Mesa First United Methodist Church’s…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Fear was present at Christ The King Church Monday night, as members of the community voiced…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego’s top law enforcement officers took a moment Monday night to quell fears regarding the new…
SAN DIEGO — Nearly 200 community members packed Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Monday to share their concerns over the…
Katia Ortiz is a Dreamer. Ortiz, who graduated from high school in 2010 with a 3.0 GPA, has been a…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – The future of more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants remains uncertain after President Trump announced that…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Catholic Charities San Diego is holding a workshop Saturday for young Dreamers affected by the DACA…
Hundreds of people from communities throughout San Diego converged Sunday to show support for Chicano Park, in response to an…
A coalition of community-based organizations gathered on Wednesday in front of City Hall to express their disappointment in Mayor Faulconer’s…
A coalition of community-based organizations gathered on Wednesday in front of City Hall to express their disappointment in Mayor Faulconer’s…
For the past few weeks, Felicidad Cayabyab has been packing away old photos and mementos into boxes, preparing to send…
Four community meetings will be held in San Diego to take public input on the selection of a new police…
San Diego is launching a national search for the city’s next police chief, who will replace Chief Shelley Zimmerman when…
Dozens of representatives from San Diego’s diverse interfaith community gathered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Friday to talk about…
San Diego’s faith community stood together Friday to denounce racism highlighted by the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past…
Clergy from across San Diego County stood together Friday and called for an end to racism and violence like that…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – San Diegans are standing together in wake of the deadly violence in Charlottesville. Read Full…
Like strands of thread binding together to weave a mighty and unbreakable safety net, faith leaders from across San Diego…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – San Diegans are standing together in wake of the deadly violence in Charlottesville. Read Full…
SAN DIEGO — Dozens of San Diego’s faith leaders came together Friday morning at a church in Bankers Hill to…
SAN DIEGO — Dozens of San Diego’s faith leaders came together Friday morning at a church in Bankers Hill to…
San Diegans were divided over President Donald Trump’s unveiling on Wednesday of a bill that proposed major changes to the…
Third story: Low-Income Out, Affordable In In the neighborhood of Rancho Peñasquitos, advocates for affordable housing suffered a defeat this…
RANCHO PENASQUITOS (NEWS 8) – Residents of an affordable housing complex on Wednesday packed a planning board meeting in Rancho…
A developer has big plans for an apartment complex in Rancho Penasquitos, but residents are vowing to fight those plans.…
The Rancho Penasquitos Planning Board has given the go-ahead to a housing development that will cut low-income housing in the…
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) — Protesters gathered in Rancho Peñasquitos Wednesday night upset over a plan to demolish an affordable…
Hundreds of senior citizens and people in need are at risk of losing their homes at a Rancho Penasquitos apartment…
An ad campaign denouncing California’s sanctuary cities launched this week on San Diego televisions. Read Full Article by San Diego…
Though details about President Donald Trump’s plans for a U.S.-Mexico border wall keep tricking out, the budget deal nearing approval…
More than 700 people, including religious and community leaders, gathered at the No Fear Faith Conference, held for the first…
Inside a Barrio Logan church, you could hear speakers urge action on behalf of immigrants, the homeless, the poor and…
SAN DIEGO – April 10, 2017 – On April 19, San Diego Organizing Project (SDOP) expects 1,000 leaders from congregations…
SAN DIEGO — At the first-ever Faith Not Fear Summit, 700 multi-faith leaders from congregations across San Diego County packed…
The Rev. John Dolan, a veteran parish priest, has been named auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San…
SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) – As concerns over racial profiling and healthcare rise across the nation, hundreds of San Diegans…
A multi-faith summit in San Diego on Wednesday evening will push for human rights reforms in areas ranging from immigration…
The San Diego Organizing Project has put together an ambitious agenda for a summit this week that the group is…