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Hna. María de Lourdes López Munguía, Misionera Franciscana de María. (Foto: GSR)
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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…
Pope, Council of Cardinals discuss how bishops are chosen
… India; Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany; Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo; George Pell, head of the Secretariat of the Economy; and Giuseppe Bertello, president of …
Vatican releases Synod list: 279 participants, 8 Americans
… Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil; Cardinal John Dew, …
Pope’s quotes: Equip the young
… foundation and first road to peace.” — Message to the bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 12, 2014 … Editor’s note: … We can send you a biweekly email alert with content from …
Chaput: Gay families are welcome at World Meeting of Families, but 'lobbying' isn't
… and peripheral neighborhoods." The five cities chosen: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Havana, Cuba; Hanoi, Vietnam; Sydney; and Marseille, France. [Joshua J. McElwee is NCR …
Vatican newspaper to host conference on women's roles in society
… be discussed at the event, Friday's first session is to see presentations of violence in the Congo and South Sudan, alongside a co-presentation by Italian and French journalists titled: …
Franciscans elect U.S. Fr. Perry to six-year term as superior
… He spent 10 years as a pastor, teacher and development director for Franciscan programs in Congo. A native of Indianapolis, Perry holds a doctorate in religious anthropology, a master's of …
Religious group focuses on Francis' peripheries, including women
… parts of the world just for the event. Mboma, a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, said her group wanted to incorporate …
Forum outlines strategies to end extreme poverty worldwide
… resilient. Haiti did not." Another example he offered were the countries of South Korea and Congo, both of which were considered desperately poor in 1953. Today, South Korea's economy and people thrive, while Congo's "suffered such economic mismanagement they are demonstrably worse today than they were 55 …
The Salt of the Earth
… Wenders. Salgado’s natural optimism further disintegrated during the Rwandan genocide and Congo Civil War, as he documented millions upon millions of refugees starving and thirsting to …
Faith communities, World Bank find a common foe in extreme poverty
… 1990. Of that 1 billion, 77 percent live in 10 countries -- India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya. A third of those are in India. So while …
Congo genocide must end; church can help perpetrators, religious say
… Catholic News Service … The brutal kidnappings and killings in Congo must stop, and the church can help by reaching out to the "perpetrators and accomplices" of the violence, said members of several religious congregations working in Congo. Hundreds of innocent children and adults have been kidnapped and "butchered" in nighttime … and the upheaval or destruction of families, the statement said. "Clearly the people of the [Congo] have suffered for too long. They continue to live in insecurity, instability and poverty …
At Easter, Francis implores God for peace, success of US-Iran framework
… Iraq and Syria, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Ukraine. The pontiff also asked for "peace and freedom" for men and women …
Pope asks prisoners to pray that Christ make him a better servant
… alb. He kneeled before each of the 12 detainees: most were Italian, others came from Nigeria, Congo, Ecuador and Brazil. Two aides assisted the 78-year-old pope in kneeling and pulling him …
Every month, I put a poet in my pocket
… summer days. Langston Hughes will tell you, in "A Negro Speaks of Rivers," how the Euphrates, Congo, Nile and great Mississippi deepened his soul. Carmelite Sr. Jessica Powers assures us in …
"Congo Forgotten"
… to have kept track of the complex civil war that has convulsed the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the ’90s. In recent months, horrifying massacres in the Congolese province of North … of the Assumption, during his visit to the United States. When I proposed to blog about the Congo, he implored me to do so. “You can call it, ‘Congo Forgotten,’ in quotes, attributed to Fr. Protais,” he said. … Collura: Fr. Protais, your …
Congolese bishop: The Vatican under Francis is 'closer to the reality that we live'
… continued Ambongo, a Capuchin Franciscan who led his order's province encompassing the two Congos before being appointed bishop by Pope John Paul II in March 2005. "For me, this is a big, … Vatican." Ambongo, who leads the diocese of Bokungu-Ikela in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also said the changes to the Vatican seem "like a change not only in attitude here, but a … said he was able to arrange meetings between environmental ministers of Germany and the Congo that have temporarily stopped the logging project. But the work-stoppage, he said, has also …