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500 call Congress to understand the moral urgency of Immigration Reform

News of the Diocese

July 13, 2014

"Walk for Justice" on Saturday, July 12 made stops at Government Office buildings in Downtown Cleveland


Preceded by an inter-denomination prayer service at St. John Cathedral in downtown Cleveland, more than 500 people of various ethnic and racial backgrounds walked the streets of downtown calling for justice and immigration reform.

The more than 100,000 children who are separated from a deported parent and victims of a broken immigration system; unaccompanied, frightened, and alone were remembered as the participants also prayed for the more than 52,000 children who have been held in detention along the Mexican border since October.

The participants walked to the

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