Catholic Review
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More than two months after 5-year-old Loan Peña went missing in the northeastern Argentina town of Nueve de Julio, the church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him.
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A bill to equate abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy to homicide has been causing controversy in Brazil, with wide segments of society expressing their dissatisfaction with it, including Catholics who said it was more political PR than true help for pregnant women.
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Catholic groups in Peru have been planning their reaction to two cases involving judicial authorizations for euthanasia in the South American nation. They argue the country’s law doesn’t allow such procedures and hope to halt what they see as a surreptitious process to advance a pro-death agenda.
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The April 1 attack on a Spiritan seminary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the most recent one in a series of incidents involving Catholic Church targets, amid the worst violence crisis in Haiti in several years.
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Amid the worst security crisis in Haiti in several years — one that has been particularly hard for church members — Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned after weeks of mounting chaos in the Caribbean nation.
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Amid an unprecedented wave of violence in Ecuador, the South American country’s bishops’ conference issued a statement on Jan. 9 asking the people to unite against the disturbance caused by criminal gangs, whose operations were defined as acts of “treason against the nation.”
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Pro-life activists demonstrated in dozens of Brazilian cities Oct. 8 to celebrate the country’s Day of the Unborn Child and protest against the decriminalization of abortion, a possibility that was being analyzed by the Supreme Court in September.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
As Argentines prepare to elect their new president Oct. 22, a group of clergy close to Pope Francis launched an unprecedented intervention in the highly charged political atmosphere in the South American country.
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Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News
Church activists in the Amazon are worried about the Brazilian government’s plan to exploit oil in a marine area close to the mouth of the Amazon River.
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Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
The tragic June killing of two students in a school shooting in southern Brazil sparked outrage but also brought a young couple’s life to light, showing their devout Catholic faith.
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Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
While millions of Venezuelans left their homeland for Brazil over the past several years, hundreds of them now face a different journey — fighting several violations of their rights.
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