Former Yonkers priest helps immigrants in Poughkeepsie
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The Rev. Jose Mena, a Nicaraguan immigrant priest who formerly ministered a
t St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Yonkers, has helped the Hispanic immigrant community at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Poughkeepsie establish a separate non-profit organization.
The group’s charitable efforts include a food pantry, the San Pablo Mission Screen Printing company and an arts center. Mena helped the group start a screen printing company to give the parish income to fund its charitable works. Click here for a link to St. Mary and Rev. Mena.
(Photo: Ricky Flores/The Journal News)
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