Hna. María de Lourdes López Munguía, Misionera Franciscana de María. (Foto: GSR)
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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 …
Unthinkable violence drives Hondurans north to United States
… poor in these countries even poorer. But poverty can't explain the current crisis. Neighboring Nicaragua -- the poorest country in Central America -- has very few child migrants. A May 27 … 1980s, when the Reagan administration pressured its leaders into joining the U.S. war against Nicaragua -- a war condemned by the International Court of Justice for "unlawful use of force." …
Morning Briefing
… spiritually based” organization providing education and community development in Nicaragua. … Q & A with Sr. Debbie Blow … Global Sisters Report Global Sisters Report … , devoted …
D'Escoto's restoration gives hope for promising future
… Fr. Miguel D'Escoto in a private conversation arranged by Maryknoll friends during a visit to Nicaragua in 1983. Bolivia, where I was a missionary priest, had just emerged the year before … something of the Nicaraguan experience. D'Escoto had been serving as the foreign minister of Nicaragua since the 1979 victory of the Sandinista Revolution. D'Escoto was most friendly and … of Honduran children coming now as refugees to our borders. In 1985, Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua and enforced church law, ordering D'Escoto and two other priests serving in the …
Three cheers! Pope Francis reinstates Miguel D'Escoto as a priest
… of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, personally when Miguel was the foreign minister of Nicaragua during the days of the Sandinistas (1979-90). They were friends and allies, both … the Quixote Center, where Bill was a co-director, was shipping millions in humanitarian aid to Nicaragua under a program called Quest for Peace , a program that continues today. That aid was … However, those of us who worked alongside Bill were strongly suspicious that his work with Nicaragua was ultimately behind his suspension and l ouster. Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, …