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Hna. María de Lourdes López Munguía, Misionera Franciscana de María. (Foto: GSR)
Authors / María de Lourdes López Munguía
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;…
U.S. priest to attend Irish meeting
… by emailing info4@uscatholicpriests.us A veteran activist who also spent 25 years in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, Survil is also well-known in the central Pennsylvania area …
Programs for men help stem violence
… Catholic News Service … With his wife nearby, a man is handed their baby girl from a nurse in Nicaragua in early August. (CNS photo/Liz Quirin, The Messenger) (Sept. 26, 2011) With his wife nearby, a man is handed their baby girl from a nurse in Nicaragua in early August. (CNS photo/Liz Quirin, The Messenger) (Sept. 26, 2011) … MATIGUAS, Nicaragua … (CNS) -- Women in Nicaragua, often too timid to speak for themselves, have been …
Fund focuses on empowering women for social change
… spring that doesn’t run dry.” A few years earlier, several women who led various projects in Nicaragua -- including a ceramics project, a jewelry-making project and a residence for pregnant … of women who are managing ESPERA (Spanish for “she hopes”) Funds within Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Haiti. One of the first of these networks to be established, in El …
Labor secretary: Parents' faith shaped me
… helping immigrant workers at a battery recycling plant. Her mother, now 85, was born in Nicaragua. She raised her five oldest children as a homemaker, and later helped support the …
Morning Briefing
… on foster care … WYD … Pope laments 'amnesia' about God … Religion debate raised anew in Nicaragua campaign … Philadelphia … Archdiocese releases report on suspended priests … Catholic …
Vatican critics smell blood in the water, and remembering Sambi
… 1969 with a posting in Cameroon. Over the course of his career, Sambi served in Cuba, Algeria, Nicaragua, Belgium, India, Burundi and Indonesia. In 1998, Sambi became the nuncio to the Holy …
The Center of Concern
… in Australia. He was also controversial for his support of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, and for his initiating a ministry for gay Catholics. “It is not clear to this day,” … …
Top Ten Papal Trips
… Day is to convert the young, it's really to convert the bishops!) … 6. (Tie) John Paul II, Nicaragua, March 4, 1983; John Paul II, Cuba, Jan. 21-26, 1998 … Every trip into a difficult … is a roll of the dice, and sometimes they come up snake eyes. When John Paul II visited Nicaragua in 1983, many hoped the pontiff would act as a peacemaker, easing tensions among the …
On this day: The Lord's Supper
… . . . It has been our privilege to supply bread for churches in the US, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Canada, Ireland, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and on the high seas." Click …
What would Oscar Romero say to Barack Obama?
… efforts of the United States to isolate the peoples of Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua and to intervene in their affairs; And the continuing presence of U.S. military bases …
A poor handful of earthly toys in exchange for God
… spiritual blessings it holds can motivate us to start down the road less traveled. I visited Nicaragua in 1986, and was captivated by the people sporting broad smiles amidst what we call …