Indigenous priest shot dead in Mexico’s increasingly violent Chiapas state October 21, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News 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.
6 migrants killed by Mexican military shooting at vehicle evading checkpoint October 3, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Mexican priest considered protector of the unborn beatified September 19, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Mexico’s outgoing president compares himself to St. Francis September 3, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Guatemala cardinal: Drug cartels wield ‘total power’ on border with Mexico August 28, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Cardenal a los líderes eclesiásticos latinoamericanos: Acojan y protejan a los migrantes August 27, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Cardinal to Latin American church leaders: Welcome and protect migrants August 27, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Nicaragua extinguishes legal status for religious orders, evangelical congregations August 20, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
Seven exiled Nicaraguan priests arrive in Rome as Ortega regime continues to target church August 9, 2024By David Agren OSV News 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.
‘We cannot be neutral,’ Venezuelan cardinals say, calling for full release of election results August 6, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Pope Francis has called for both sides to “seek the truth” in Venezuela’s contested election as the opposition denounces electoral fraud — publishing tally sheets as proof — while the ruling Chavista regime refuses to release the full information on the vote and cracks down on demonstrations.
‘Parishes are on their own,’ says Nicaraguan priest as regime’s repression targets diocese August 5, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News At least 11 churchmen have been detained by police and paramilitaries over a weeklong assault in northern Nicaragua, depleting the already demoralized Diocese of Matagalpa — whose leader, Bishop Rolando Álvarez, lives in exile.
Buenos Aires no longer Argentina’s primatial see as pope switches see to Santiago del Estero July 29, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has designated the provincial city of Santiago del Estero as Argentina’s primatial see in a move described by Catholic leaders as a historic “reparation” and a reflection of his preference for putting the peripheries at the center of church attention. The Archdiocese of Buenos Aires — the national capital, with roughly one-third of […]
