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Police and paramilitaries maintained a heavy presence outside the Nicaraguan Managua cathedral on Palm Sunday, ensuring celebrations occurred entirely on church property — and sending a not-so-subtle message of intimidation.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a nightclub disaster in the Dominican Republic that claimed more than 200 lives and has provoked mourning across the Caribbean country.
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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
Masses were celebrated around the country March 23 as Catholics prayed for the victims of the attack, which claimed eight lives and left five injured, in the city of Salamanca in western Guanajuato state March 16.
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Argentines working in humble barrios, or neighborhoods, and the people they serve, prayed for the health of Pope Francis at one of the country’s most important Catholic shrines — a show of affection and support from a population that the Holy Father made a priority in his time as local archbishop.
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Mexico’s Catholic leaders prayed for the country’s missing and urged the population of the country and their political leaders to listen to victims of violence amid outrage over the discovery of mass graves and ovens for cremating bodies on a drug cartel compound.
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Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News
The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed outrage over the discovery of an extermination camp operated by a drug cartel, calling it “one of the cruelest expressions of evil and human misery that we’ve seen in the country,” and alleging such sites exist in other parts of Mexico.
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Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The Mexican bishops’ conference reiterated a call for unity as the country deals with threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, who promises to impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexican exports if migrants continue crossing the U.S. border and fentanyl is not stamped out. The bishops also called on Mexico to confront “the culture of death […]
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Nicaragua’s government issued a statement attacking the Vatican as “depraved” following interviews in which exiled Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa reaffirmed the pope’s desire for him to continue leading a pair of Nicaraguan dioceses from afar.
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Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Catholic leaders and migrant advocates have expressed alarm over Trump’s executive orders mandating mass deportations, too, along with the manner in which the deportations were carried out.
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Filed Under: En Español
El cardenal Blase J. Cupich de Chicago tranquilizó a los inmigrantes de su arquidiócesis ante los informes de una posible deportación masiva por parte de una nueva administración en Washington que tendría como objetivo el área de Chicago y dijo que estos informes “nos hieren profundamente”.
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Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago reassured migrants in his archdiocese that reports of a possible mass deportation by a new administration in Washington that would target the Chicago area “wound us deeply.”
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Venezuela’s bishops called for the country’s electoral decision to be respected on the eve of the Jan. 10 inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro, whose victory in the July 28 election is disputed by the opposition and not recognized by the United States.
