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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…
Opus Dei's first prelate praised as sainthood cause moves forward
… of many social and educational initiatives, including the Monkole Medical Center in Kinshasa, Congo; the Niger Foundation Hospital in Enugu, Nigeria; the Center for Industrial Technology and …
Pope fires another bishop
… cases are: Bishop Jean-Claude Makaya Loembe of Pointe-Noire in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in March 2011 Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba, Australia, in May 2011; Bishop Francesco …
Silence about the global treatment of women is disquieting
… us. "Let me tell you plainly," she said. "Seventy thousand women and girls were raped in the Congo during the war. They are homeless yet. Many have starved to death. Many became pregnant and …
Peace seekers gather on Kenyan plain
… ALARM has a ministry of 54 full-time staff training church and community leaders in Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In his own experience, Musekura told … what people with little money and no official power can do. Shomberwa Marina Ntamwenge of Congo, for instance, is president of the Federation of Protestant Women in the Ecumenical Church of Democratic Republic of Congo and conducts workshops on peace-building and seminars for couples on gender issues, and …
Death of innocents a call to renewal this Easter
… even (Leviticus 16:10) -- has been transformed: the children of Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Congo, Guatemala, Somalia; rural Illinois; Sanford, Fla.; the west side of Chicago; Pine Ridge. …
Morning Briefing
… the Irish church at a "breaking point … ," Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin tells 60 Minutes. Congo -- … Munitions dump blasts kill 146 in Congo capital … while flattening buildings, homes and a Catholic church. BOSTON —-Boston College …
Catholic sister stabbed in the heart in Congo
… Thomas C. Fox … ROME … – A Catholic sister in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become one of the latest victims to widespread violence in that nation following a … treasurer in a Catholic parish in Western Kasai Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was rushed to a hospital after staff heard a scream and found her bleeding from a knife … to the Mapalayi murder continues to be missing days after the assault. Catholics in the Congo have been targeted as the church is a key force in the country. Some 30,000 Catholics …
'Welcome to Uganda, welcome to COMSAM'
… North Sudan, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Gabon, Burundi, Rwanda, Nigeria, DRC, Chad, Cameroon, Congo Brazaville, Senegal, Republic of Central Africa, Madagascar, Ghana, Togo, friends from …
Morning Briefing
… Study from American University, Womenand Politics Institute in the School of Pubic Affairs. … Congo Catholic Leaders Seek Election Re-Evaluation … Evangelicals at the Crossroads in South …
Study compares Catholicism to Christianity across the globe
… ten are Brazil, Mexico, Russia, the Philippines, Nigeria, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, and Ethiopia. Note that only one nation from Western Europe, and just two from … 50 million Colombia: 38 million France: 37 million Poland: 35 million Spain: 34 million DR Congo: 31 million In my 2009 book The Future Church , I ran projections for the Catholic population in 2050. By mid-century, DR Congo will rise to fifth place on the “Top Ten” list of Catholic nations, just behind the United …
Morning Briefing
… mutes the effects of sexual abuse … by Jacky Jones. The words we use do matter. … Contested Congo Election Fuels Fears Of Violence … Nigeria -- … Bishops Laud Senate for Outlawing Gay …