Catholic Review
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
The ruling Sandinista regime expelled the president of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, further decimating the country’s Catholic leadership as clergy are forced into exile.
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Filed Under: Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
A lay preacher and longtime parishioner at the St. Francis Assisi Church in Huixtla, Hernández, 76, cites his experience in parish life as an inspiration for helping migrants. Helping migrants, he says, is a form of practicing what he preaches.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News
Slain Father Marcelo Pérez was buried in his birthplace amid indignation and demands for justice.
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An Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, where the Catholic Church has denounced government inaction in the face of rising violence.
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Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Six migrants were killed after soldiers shot at a vehicle evading a military checkpoint in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state.
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Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Saints, World News
Father Moisés Lira Serafin has been beatified in a ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in his native Mexico, where he is beloved as a protector of life from conception and is credited with the miracle of saving an unborn child’s life.
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Filed Under: News, World News
Mexico’s outgoing president has compared himself to St. Francis of Assisi, highlighting his personal parsimony as a calling card in a country notorious for corrupt politics — while overlooking his own willingness to welcome politicians with checkered records into his political party.
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Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, has warned that drug cartels control the border between Mexico and Guatemala, provoking spasms of violence that have sent hundreds of Mexicans fleeing into his diocese.
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Filed Under: En Español
El hombre clave del Papa Francisco en materia de inmigración ha instado a los católicos a “acoger y proteger” a los migrantes, que recorren caminos cada vez más peligrosos mientras huyen de las penurias y el peligro, sólo para encontrarse con la indiferencia y la hostilidad en los lugares de destino.
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Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Pope Francis’ point man on immigration has urged Catholics to “welcome and protect” migrants, who ply increasingly perilous paths as they flee hardship and danger — only to meet indifference and hostility at the destinations.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians, another diocesan Caritas chapter, and lay Catholic groups, as part of an attack on civil society with the closure of 1,500 nongovernmental organizations.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News
The Vatican confirmed Aug. 9 that seven priests expelled from Nicaragua arrived in Rome Aug. 8. They had been detained in an assault on a diocese headed by an outspoken bishop as the Ortega regime continued debilitating the Catholic Church and forcing its critics into exile.
