Jean Parietti is the local news editor for NWCatholic.org and features editor for Northwest Catholic magazine. You can reach her at jean.parietti@seattlearch.org.
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Jean Parietti es editora local para el sitio web NWCatholic.org y destacada editora de la revista Noroeste Católico/Northwest Catholic. Pueden contactarle en: jean.parietti@seattlearch.org.
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BELLINGHAM – Last summer, Western Washington University students Kendra Baker and Juan Balmedina helped youth from around the archdiocese learn about Catholic social teaching as they served migrant farmworker families in Whatcom County.
Durante más de dos años, la parroquia San Pío X ha estado recaudando fondos para construir Mercy House, un centro de atención con un costo de inversión de $1.2 millones, previsto para ser construido en las instalaciones de la parroquia con el objetivo de atender a los necesitados en el sur del condado de Snohomish.
Y entonces llegó el COVID-19.
For more than two years, St. Pius X Parish has been raising money to build Mercy House, a $1.2 million outreach center envisioned on the parish campus to serve those in need in south Snohomish County.
Then COVID-19 happened.
SEATTLE – After being closed for three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a trio of thrift stores operated by St. Vincent de Paul Seattle-King County reopened June 16. Proceeds from the stores help support the nonprofit’s programs to assist the poor.