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RGV Families Set the Agenda: Valley Interfaith to Hold Accountability Session with Candidates
September 30, 2026
[Excerpts] Valley Interfaith, a broad-based regional coalition of congregations, schools, and civic organizations across the Rio Grande Valley, will hold a major nonpartisan Accountability Session next month to seek public policy commitments from congressional, state, and county candidates ahead of the upcoming general election....
Read MoreValley Interfaith and Allies Advance Moratorium on Data Centers in Brownsville
August 28, 2026
At the urging of Valley Interfaith and allies, the City of Brownsville agreed to vote on a 90-day moratorium for all data center projects. Leaders are now pushing for more.
Read MoreValley 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...
Read MorePutting 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....
Read MoreValley 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...
Read MoreBishop 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,...
Read MoreValley 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,...
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