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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… Churches in the archdiocese are connected with parishes in Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Grenada, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Palestine and Ghana, among other foreign …