Mexican bishops urge truce as country celebrates feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Hispanic Ministry, News, World News Mexico’s Catholic clergy have called for a truce on Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and on Christmas Day as criminal violence wracks swaths of the country and clergy working in conflictive regions come under threat.
Pope, Central American Catholics pray for Nicaragua December 9, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News Pope Francis and the country’s bishops in exile prayed for Nicaragua as the Central American country observed the Immaculate Conception of Mary amid persecution.
El Salvador archbishop blasts mining law change, says it will cause ‘irrevocable damage’ December 4, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Environment, News, Social Justice, World News Catholic leaders in Central America expressed alarm over the idea of repealing a national prohibition on extractive activities in El Salvador — putting the church in opposition to the country’s popular president.
La fe y la esperanza ‘realizan milagros’, dice el Papa al pueblo nicaragüense December 2, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: En Español En una conmovedora carta, el Papa Francisco expresó su cercanía con el pueblo de Nicaragua mientras los obispos centroamericanos convocaban a una jornada de oración por el país en la fiesta de la Inmaculada Concepción, en medio de cambios constitucionales que llevarían a una dictadura aún más marcada.
Faith, hope ‘work miracles,’ pope tells people of Nicaragua ahead of Immaculate Conception December 2, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for a day of prayer for the country on the feast of the Immaculate Conception amid constitutional changes that will lead into an even darker dictatorship.
‘Cura villero’ — shantytown priest — named archbishop in Argentina November 22, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has named a “cura villero” — one of the priests working in the shantytowns of Buenos Aires — to head the Argentine archdiocese previously led by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
El Salvador envía a juicio a un ex presidente y otros acusados por la masacre de jesuitas en 1989 November 22, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: En Español El Salvador ha ordenado que un ex presidente sea juzgado por los asesinatos en 1989 de seis jesuitas, su ama de llaves y su hija de 16 años — un crimen notorio de la guerra civil del país centroamericano, que ha languidecido en el reino de la impunidad.
El Salvador charges ex-president for ’89 Jesuit slayings November 22, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Uncategorized El Salvador has ordered a former president to stand trial for the 1989 murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter — a notorious crime from the Central American country’s civil war, which has languished in the realm of impunity.
Migrants hope, pray to enter U.S. ahead of presidential inauguration November 18, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Migrants in Mexico waiting for appointments via the CBP One smartphone app — operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection — face uncertain futures after the U.S. election.
Nicaragua expels bishops’ conference’s president November 14, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Mexican lay couple help migrants amid rising dangers, difficulties October 26, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Remembered as prophet for the poor, dispossessed, Mexico says goodbye to slain priest October 23, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Slain Father Marcelo Pérez was buried in his birthplace amid indignation and demands for justice.
