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María de Lourdes López Munguía is a Franciscan Missionary of Mary from Mexico who now lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is a professional 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 with: people recuperating from drug addiction;…
Overcome global indifference during Lent this year
… a 5-year-old Syrian refugee in Lebanon named Tanious, the struggling Ramirez family in rural Nicaragua. It also offers a number of meatless recipes from around the world. The website …
The Holy Spirit lends a hand to sister parish in Nicaragua
… Peter Daly … We are just back from a visit to our sister parish in Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Our parish has been going there … eight years now and we visit every six months. About 40 people from our parish have been to Nicaragua. In the last eight years, our two sister parishes have together built over 200 new … St. John Vianney, provides money, encouragement and advice. San Juan Bautista in Limay, Nicaragua, provides knowledge of the local community, workers, volunteers, supervision and …
Morning Briefing
… Francis in the Philippines here … . ICYMI: Read this feature from Tom Boswell on his return to Nicaragua … to find the flames of solidarity still alight … Fr. Peter Daly attempts to answer the …
Return to Nicaragua finds the flame of solidarity still alight
… the speaker's platform with the leaders, think about the ones who died. --Fr. Ernesto Cardenal Nicaragua. Land of green mountains, lakes and a necklace of volcanoes. Land of poets. Land of … tradition, but its volunteers come from various Christian faiths. On our first night in Nicaragua, a few of us toured the capital of Managua, a sprawling city of 1.5 million. We were … AK-47s on the streets was a ubiquitous sight. Now, I'd been here a week and not seen a gun. Nicaragua's homicide rate is the lowest in Latin America. Then there's the canal, with its …
Vatican honors murdered missionaries, kidnapped priests, Ebola victims
… in California and Fr. Kenneth Walker in Arizona; and one priest each in Canada, Colombia, Nicaragua and Peru. …
El Paso project helps farmworkers recover 'dignity of their lives'
… one year later, Marentes was called on to join a select group of 100 social justice workers in Nicaragua. Someone suggested the pope would be interested in meeting the group. "I personally …
SOA Watch marks 25th year of speaking out against 'School of Assassins'
… Five have ended their connection to the school: Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Pablo Ruiz Espinoza, SOA Watch's Latin America coordinator in Chile who spent years …
Kenya's Catholic bishops: Tetanus vaccine is birth control in disguise
… campaign, Kariuki said. WHO carried out similar vaccination campaigns in Mexico in 1993 and in Nicaragua and the Philippines in 1994. "What is immoral and evil is that the tetanus laced with …
Cutting through the noise: the power of personal relationship
… when they stem from encounters with real people. I spent the summer of 2013 in Managua, Nicaragua, with the Mev Puleo Scholarship , a theological immersion program through Saint Louis …
Maryland Catholic school finds its footing amid demographic shifts
… in all. Among them is a large representation from Central America -- Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador -- as well as from countries of West Africa, the Caribbean and South …
Oliver North to raise money for Franciscan Holy Land Foundation
… to Central American anti-communist rebels looking to overthrow the Sandinista Regime in Nicaragua — the so-called Iran-Contra affair. Over the past 10-plus years, North, who is a born …