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… in late Friday. … Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, Maryknoll priest and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, has died at age 84. … We plan to have a more comprehensive look at D'Escoto's life and …

… Maryknoll priest who was suspended from the priesthood in 1984 because he was serving in the Nicaragua government, has died. He was 84. D’Escoto died June 8 in Nicaragua, according to an announcement from the headquarters of the Maryknoll Fathers and … foreign minister, a position he held until 1990, when the Sandinistas lost political power in Nicaragua. D’Escoto was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 1933. Son of a diplomat …

… refrained from signing the Paris Agreement: Syria, which has been wrought with civil war, and Nicaragua, which didn't think the deal went far enough. So far, 147 nations have ratified the …

… during the Reagan administration, which used Honduras as a base for its covert war against Nicaragua. The State Department approved the training of hundreds of Hondurans at SOA in the …

… back in the 1980s when I was on the Quixote Center staff and a group of us were visiting rural Nicaragua. At that time, we were running the Quest for Peace program, which supplied large … of John XXIII at the Jesuit university in Managua. Quixote Center staff often made trips to Nicaragua to check on the progress of the program and to learn about new needs — and the …

… Kari Pohl … I recently returned to live in the United States after six years in Nicaragua, where I had become accustomed to irregular water service — or rather, the regular …

… of Justice ruled that the U.S. had violated the Hague Convention by mining the harbors of Nicaragua and arming and training the Contras. It ordered the U.S. to pay reparations, but the … of the U.S. Capitol with three other veterans to protest the escalation of the war against Nicaragua. Liteky 2_700pxcrop.jpg Charles Liteky, left, and three fellow veterans fasting in … pay fines or restitution, saying he would do so when the U.S. government paid restitution to Nicaragua as ordered by the International Court of Justice. But on balance, Liteky saved the …

… to following the Gospel." Back in the '80s, when Witness for Peace was sending delegations to Nicaragua to support the Sandanista revolution, a delegation was kidnapped by the Contras, the U.S.-armed opposition. Two members of the St. Louis Catholic Worker Community lived in Nicaragua then and were accompanying the Witness for Peace delegation. About a hundred protesters …

… the late 1980s, most women who lived there were fleeing violence and poverty in El Salvador, Nicaragua or Guatemala. At Mary House, I Iearned a balanced approach to serving people who have …

… psychologist, trained in accompaniment. She received novitiate formation in Managua, Nicaragua, and ministered in Chile, the United States, Tunisia and Congo. She has shared her life …

… childhood in Queens, N.Y., to a life of missionary accompaniment with the people of Nicaragua and El Salvador. In many ways, Clarke’s childhood was the typical mixture of piety and … but was delighted to be assigned in 1959 to a Maryknoll mission in the remote town of Siuna on Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast. When the mission was founded in 1944, the sisters dined with …

… responsibility and justice and peace coordinator. She has participated in delegations to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Syria and Lebanon. Orzechowski is a friar of Holy Name Province …

… and didn’t believe her until he got a congratulatory phone call from a cardinal in neighboring Nicaragua.   … Doing it his way … So how does Francis go about finding candidates and deciding …

… areas in the Midwest, to native American reservations in Montana, to our "mission" in Nicaragua under the regime of Anastasio Somoza). Some of the friars who spent time in Washington, …

… basis. Longtime peace activist Terry Burke, who worked with the Pledge of Resistance and the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee during the U.S.-backed wars in Central America in the 1980s, has …

… Keefe, a parishioner involved in twinning with the Batahola Norte Cultural Center in Managua, Nicaragua, since 2000. The parish also partners with Our Lady of the Mountains Parish in Stanton, Ky. Each year, the staff of the parish visits Nicaragua, and there is a parish trip as well, involving up to 28 parishioners. Archbishop … Center in Cincinnati. There they talk with Latinos in the region about their lives in Ohio and Nicaragua, among other Latin American countries. "I have always said that we are building …

… and has served as director of Human Resources, regional director for South Asia, head of its Nicaragua program and executive vice president for overseas operations. Four years ago he was …

… a foundation whose mission is to aid women who want to become doctors in the eastern region of Nicaragua, an area in dire need of improved health care. The country's Caribbean coastal area is … Haiti. It has but one doctor for every 3,000 inhabitants. Only 4 percent of women in eastern Nicaragua can even afford to go to a university, McKean told NCR in a series of email exchanges. … in Fond du Lac, Wis., where McKean now lives in active retirement. She made several trips to Nicaragua in 2009, studying three universities before selecting the University of the Autonomous …

… Kari Pohl is a Sister of St. Joseph of Baden, Pennsylvania, who has been serving in Nicaragua since 2010 in the fields of community health education and pastoral ministry. …

… in Nueva Esperanza in northern Honduras and El Tránsito far to the south near the border of Nicaragua. But to many people in these two small towns the closings serve only as a pyrrhic …