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Obama, the Bishops, and the Politics of 'Usurpation'
… anti-communist proxy wars in Central America while the bishops opposed human rights abuses in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala; the bishops’ letter on economics was critical of US …
Reiki and the Holy Spirit
… survivor; and a former Sandinista, a woman who helped bring down the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. I’ve also worked with ovarian and breast cancer patients, and people suffering from …
The 'not so cordial' church-state relations in Nicaragua
… post-electoral upheaval. The statues were later removed. (Photos by Blake Schmidt) … MANAGUA, NICARAGUA … Facing allegations from top Sandinista officials that they’re trying to “destabilize” … pact between Ortega and liberal party boss Arnoldo Alemán, the two leaders have filled Nicaragua’s democratic institutions with party loyalists. Alemán is an ex-president who was …
Shareholder activism really does work
… shareholder activism. Fr. Crosby’s interest in the tobacco industry began after traveling to Nicaragua in 1980, and seeing the struggles that farmworkers were going through in the fields. He …
Slow economy brings rise in homeless youth
… youths in 15 U.S. cities plus five abroad (two in Canada, one each in Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua) -- is the largest faith-based shelter for homeless youth in the world. Ryan said the …
Motivated by 'what it means to be a priest'
… at U.N. headquarters in New York, where the Maryknoll priest and former foreign minister of Nicaragua serves as president of the U.N. General Assembly. Highlights of their conversation … never before been a precedent for Rome’s going over the heads of the local bishop [of Esteli, Nicaragua] and the provincial [of Maryknoll]. By definition suspension is said to be a “remedial …
'Padre Miguel' takes a world stage
… Caribbean States within the United Nations unanimously chose the former foreign minister of Nicaragua as president. D’Escoto will hold the post throughout the United Nations’ 63rd session, … Born in Los Angeles in 1933 to a Nicaraguan diplomat and his wife, d’Escoto spent his youth in Nicaragua. He returned to the United States at 14, attending a Maryknoll-run high school in … Castro. The priest continues to serve as a policy adviser to Ortega, who is back in power as Nicaragua’s president. At the United Nations, critics have called d’Escoto “blunt” and “preachy.” …
We Are All Immigrants: The Soul Demands Kinship
… … Did you see our brother? He is El Salavadorian, a Guatemalteco, un Mexicano, up from Nicaragua, all the way from Panama. He has traveled overland by foot from places where the ruling …
Progressive party wins in El Salvador
… product, come from the United States. Blake Schmidt is a freelance writer who lives in Nicaragua. …
Faithful Fools chip away at the boundaries
… people in Minneapolis, and then went on to help start a ministry of presence in Managua, Nicaragua, with two other members of her community. The three women lived for seven years in “a … of her life -- theater and ministry. Barsody had come to the Bay Area on a sabbatical from Nicaragua. A mutual friend, who figured Barsody and Jorgensen were kindred spirits, suggested …
Vatican diplomat, Pio Laghi, dead at 86
… Laghi was ordained a priest in 1946, entered the diplomatic corps in 1952, and was posted to Nicaragua. After a period in Rome, in 1969 Laghi was named the pope’s envoy to Jerusalem and …
UN suspends Gaza aid as tension with Israel rises
… Since becoming UN General Assembly President last fall, d’Escoto - a Maryknoll priest from Nicaragua - has criticized both the Israeli’s treatment of Palestinians and the United States’ …
Catholics celebrate, protest Human Rights Day
… Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. (D’Escoto is a Los Angeles-born Maryknoll priest. He served as Nicaragua’s foreign minister from 1979-1990, and was elected president of the U.N. General …
Where there is SOA, there is Witness for Peace
… where the US-backed Contra rebels were waging a guerrilla war that had deadly consequences for Nicaragua’s compasenos. Once in place, even in the areas of heaviest fighting, the presence of … aid, said WFP executive director Melinda St. Louis, but in the other four nations - Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Mexico - where Witness maintains a presence, the group’s emphasis over the …
Nicaragua elections stir calls for calm
… NCR Staff … MANAGUA, Nicaragua … Amid recent violent protests over the results of municipal elections in Nicaragua, the country's bishops have called for peace and a recount of votes. Archbishop …