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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 drug addiction;…
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 …
Latin American church leaders look to 2011
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Morning Briefing
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'The women won't let us go'
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'It doesn't matter if they give us a hard time'
… This review travels to the Christians of the remote archipelago of Solentiname in Lake Nicaragua, the 38 islands, not all inhabited, whose voices are brought to us by a famous name in …
The bold acts of a priest in Congress
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30 years later, Salvadoran martyrs' struggle for justice lives on
… discerning whether or not to respond to Romero’s call and go to El Salvador. First, she tried Nicaragua. She arrived in Ocotal on the Honduran border in January, 1980, not long after the …
Denver Catholics fight to restore Guadalupe mural
… 1988, he chose the humble church of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Sunday stop. Two years earlier, Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, likewise had selected it as the place to meet with area …
Georgetown welcomes Colombia's Uribe
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John Swomley, long time pacifist, dead at 95
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Priest remembered as champion of justice, reform
… He was best known for his leadership for peace and justice in Central America, especially in Nicaragua, and for his advocacy of gender equality in the Catholic church, including women’s … In the late 1970s, he embraced the struggles of the poor in Central America, especially Nicaragua and El Salvador, and he became an outspoken opponent of the Reagan war policies in the … of $227 million in war funding with the same value in humanitarian aid. Callahan traveled to Nicaragua time and again, working with the Institute of John XXIII at the Jesuit university in …