Hna. María de Lourdes López Munguía, Misionera Franciscana de María. (Foto: GSR)
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Is anti-Zionism inherently anti-Semitic?
… and aggressiveness of perceived adversaries. One needs to look no further than East Timor, Nicaragua, Angola or other controversial U.S. policies to recognize that while right-wing Zionist …
Pastor at multicultural Long Island parish has always worked for justice
… archdiocese in El Salvador, living in one of the camps for several months. I also visited Nicaragua twice and helped in the founding of Witness for Peace, an accompaniment project that …
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and teacher of tolerance, is dead at 87
… war in former Yugoslavia, apartheid in South Africa, the Kurds, victims of famine in Africa, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Cambodian refugees and Argentina’s “disappeared.” “Sometimes we must …
Year-old Laudato Si' has stirred up action for Earth
… Rosenhauer took to the Philippines, where storms have worsened in the central islands, and Nicaragua, where warmer temperatures have disrupted growing seasons, showed how people are …
Take and Read: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
… of the day -- including Boff. Spring term of 1985, I was in war-torn, Sandinista-ruled Nicaragua with Maryknoll sisters; then with Penny Lernoux and Franciscans in Colombian “peace …
Seattle cathedral parish a model for 'field hospital' ministries
… and programs," recently sending a contingent of 16 teens and their chaperones on mission to Nicaragua; Youth are also tapped in the parish's embrace of the developmentally disabled, notably …
Hillary Clinton's double standards on human rights
… The Reagan administration also attempted to bring down the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua by mining the country’s harbors; sabotaging oil installations; and organizing, … and Protestant clergy and laity organized to challenge U.S. policy. Many activists traveled to Nicaragua in solidarity with the people of that besieged country. Among those was Bernie Sanders, …
'Argentina's 'Dirty War' survivors deserve access to Vatican archives
… Guatemala alone had some 200,000 fatalities. In El Salvador, there were 60,000 deaths, in Nicaragua 15,000 casualties. In Peru, first the violence of the "Sendero Luminoso," or Shining …
Seattle University School of Law clinic helps secure rights activist's release
… from Washington, D.C., where he is working on another IHRC case involving a proposed canal in Nicaragua that, he said, "endangers many indigenous communities." "So many people have been …
Cardenal's memoir presents a man of great faith, humility
… of the poor and teaches that Christians have an obligation toward the oppressed. The poor of Nicaragua had barely enough food, no jobs, no schools, no access to healthcare. Cardenal saw … and continual headaches. When in 1976, he asked U.S. Congress to cut off military aid to Nicaragua and listed the atrocities committed by the Somoza regime, his headaches intensified. …
Morning Briefing
… rights, suicide Kentucky Noah's Ark … park developer may alter religious worker rules … Nicaragua priest who defied Vatican to champion literacy dies aged 82 … How 'Spotlight' missed …
The Field Hospital: Covering parish life throughout America
… Churches in the archdiocese are connected with parishes in Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Grenada, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Palestine and Ghana, among other foreign …
Pope prays for Cuban migrants, peace in Mindanao
… added, "are victims of human trafficking." Thousands of Cubans are stuck in Costa Rica after Nicaragua began preventing them from crossing its border in mid-November. Costa Rica also …
1980-2015: Memory of El Salvador's church martyrs lives on
… Donovan, 27, a lay missionary who was engaged to be married, also from Cleveland. El Salvador, Nicaragua and Central America in general in 1980 were on the frontlines of American foreign …
Some Hondurans seek church help to fight government changes to land
… In the midst of this delicate ecosystem in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua have fought for centuries over pockets of land and tiny, barely inhabited islands set …
Rhonda Miska
… and ministers at Dominican University in Chicago. After two years as a Jesuit Volunteer in Nicaragua, she earned a graduate degree in pastoral ministry. Her ministries have included …
We have a moral obligation to take in Syrian refugees
… some of these dictatorships in Central America such as that of Anastasio Somoza García in Nicaragua. Of Somoza, Roosevelt said: “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” …
Another side to Chicago's Cardinal Francis George on LGBT issues
… Francis in his place after he waxed very-informed-Roman about the evil of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. During the same evening, Francis argued that seminaries should be purged of gay men. …
Blessed Romero 'another brilliant star' belonging to church of Americas
… Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Leopoldo Brenes of Managua, Nicaragua; Jaime Ortega of Havana; Jose Maestrojuan of David, Panama; Roger Mahony of Los …
Nicaraguan priest, Jesuit Fr. Fernando Cardenal, still served youth, the poor
… are posting this profile which first appeared in the April 24-May 7, 2015 issue. … MANAGUA, NICARAGUA -- … Jesuit Fr. Fernando Cardenal, 81, carries a cane. But the cane does not appear to … in Medellín, Colombia. Later, Ernesto served as minister of culture in the early days of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, and Fernando as minister of education. "I never spoke with one …