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… Service … MANAGUA … 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 …

… the former dictator of Panama. Nearly 60,000 alumni have returned to Bolivia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to suppress human rights leaders, political dissidents and innocent civilians swept up …

… most notably its efforts on behalf of women’s equality and solidarity with the people of Nicaragua. About a dozen people currently share the work of the center. When the center began its … Contemplation – Deep Prayer for Busy People. . It has been a Catholic best-seller ever since. Nicaragua and the causes of the poor in that nation have been another hallmark of the Quixote … under Callahan and Pomerleau’s tenure. In 1983, during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua, they coauthored a letter denouncing the pope’s lack of sensitivity toward the poor of …

… at those services of the Word? They’re women. I know from my own experience of having been in Nicaragua for a short time that many women are the animators of those communities, and they are …

… my most important days were still to come -- days in Iraq, India, Haiti, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Northern Ireland and Palestine. Or my years of banishment to a …

… Juan Diego was born. The original idea was to serve refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua who were streaming into the Houston area because of civil wars in Central America. "The …

… the legacy of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero still "looms large," Father Brackley said. In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas also had strong ties to Catholic activists, but many supporters became disenchanted after the party came to power and became entangled in corruption scandals. Nicaragua has recently been campaigning behind the scenes to take over in June the rotating role …

… the country formed a critical corridor between the Contra revolt against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and El Salvador's efforts to put down the Marxist FMLN. John Negroponte, today deputy …

… were fellow leftists Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, along with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Taken in tandem with Chavez’s recent … prompting official protests and hard feelings. Ortega’s clashes with the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, especially during the early days of the Sandinista Revolution, are by now the stuff of … example, said in a press conference last week that recent election results in Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela amount to a repudiation of Latin America’s status as a “back porch” of …

… Ernesto Cardenal crossed that line by serving as Minister of Culture under the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and was publicly rebuked by Pope John Paul II during his 1983 trip to the country. …

… of Maryknoll had spent years in Chile; Sr. Maura Clarke also of Maryknoll had spent years in Nicaragua; and Sr. Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun from Cleveland worked in El Salvador. The … is evil. That's what we have to wrestle and fight against." Sr. Maura Clarke spent 17 years in Nicaragua working against the U.S.-backed Somozoa dictatorship, before moving to El Salvador only …

… protest. Such was the case when Sandinista provocateurs tried to shout down the pope in Nicaragua in 1983, for example, or when Orthodox hardliners performed public exorcisms to ward …