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On Monday, September 26, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. in Science Hall, Canisius hosts the September Peace Coffeehouse: Immigration Justice.

Msgr. David Gallivan, a Buffalo native and former executive director of the secretariat for Latin America of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C., and Rev. Bernard Survil, who worked for the Catholic church in Central America for 25 years, will discuss the forces shaping immigration from Latin America and the U.S. bishops pastoral letter on immigration reform.

There will also be a report on the VIVE-La Casa program of the Jericho Road Community Health Center by Sr. Beth Niederpruem.

The event is sponsored by Peace Action-Canisius, the Latin American Studies program, the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the Latin America Solidarity Committee, and the WNY Peace Center.

Submitted by: Terrence Bisson, PhD, professor, mathematics and statistics