Carolina Gómez and Laura Poy
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, January 19, 2025, p. 4
The Catholic Church has around 120 shelters, dining rooms, reception centers and care modules in the country to care for migrants in transit, deportees and asylum seekers, said Eugenio Lira Rugarcía, head of the Episcopal Dimension of Pastoral Human Mobility of the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate.
The bishop of Matamoros specified that they are provided with lodging, food, clothing and personal hygiene items and they are supported in taking care of their physical, emotional and spiritual health.
Francisco Javier Acero, auxiliary bishop of the Primate Archdiocese of Mexico, affirmed that the Mexican Catholic Church is doing everything possible
for hosting the thousands of migrants who could be deported.
