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Valley Interfaith & Allies Block $160M Tax Break for Natural Gas Project

March 10, 2026

Once again, Valley Interfaith leaders and allies organized to stop a multi-million dollar tax break for Texas LNG, a billion-dollar company seeking to build a natural gas facility at the Port of Brownsville. After the company applied for a $160 million tax abatement from...

Putting Scripture Into Action, Valley Interfaith Transforms Border Colonias

April 09, 2025

[Excerpt] Eddie Anaya, a Catholic lawyer and lifelong resident of a colonia called Las Milpas, got involved as a young man with Valley Interfaith, an affiliate of the West/Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation, because his Mexican immigrant mother, Carmen Anaya, was one of its co-founders....

Valley Interfaith Shuts Down a Crusher Plant in Brownsville, Texas

October 30, 2024

10 months after Valley Interfaith leaders in Brownsville led a community outcry about the impact of clay dust emanating from a Milwhite industrial plant on the South Padre Highway, the company agreed to cease operations in that location. In December of 2023, Valley Interfaith...

Bishop Flores Exhorts 'Recognizing the Stranger' Gathering to Embrace Mission, Communion and Participation

April 22, 2024

Valley Interfaith's 'Recognizing the Stranger' training drew 82 ministry leaders from 15 local parishes in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Bishop Daniel Flores delivered stirring remarks noting Pope Francis' constant reminders of three aspects of the synodal process to develop in parish life: communion,...

Valley Interfaith Celebrates $3M Grant to VIDA Job Training

February 06, 2024

Urges More Cities and Counties to Invest in VIDA Valley Interfaith leaders Rosalie Tristan and Joe Hinojosa celebrated VIDA's recent fundraising success as the culmination of 28 years of dreams and hard political work. Almost three decades ago, Valley Interfaith established and, over the years,...

Valley Interfaith: We decry Gov. Abbott’s signing of new anti-immigrant state laws

December 20, 2023

[Photo Credit: Steve Taylor, Rio Grande Guardian][Excerpt]"Our immigration system is outdated, and Congress has been unable to update it in decades. As a result, Governor Abbott and his enablers in the Texas Legislature are coming up with ever more questionable ways to spend billions of...

As Skin Rashes Spread Near Milwhite Plant, Valley Interfaith Challenges Brownsville Mayor & Council to Take Action

December 06, 2023

Valley Interfaith leaders told graphic stories at an assembly they organized to challenge the Mayor of Brownsville to address the health impacts of plant operations by the Milwhite industrial clay plant on South Padre Island Highway. In addition to new skin conditions developing among...