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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…
Sex and money? It's about power
… Public Health reports 400,000 women were raped from 2006 to 2007 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where sexual violence is the worst in the world. According to published UN statistics, …
Vignettes from the beatification of John Paul II
… in Latin America. He went to Chile and sometime after that, Pinochet was out. He was in Congo for the change, et cetera. So, [he helped bring about] big changes from the historic point …
Congolese bishop: Extortion wearing down people
… Catholic News Service … INONGO, Congo … -- A Congolese bishop has called on Catholics to struggle for reconciliation among … the courts for the poor, and justice in the exploitation of natural resources, including the Congo's forests, the pastoral letter said. …
CRS rep wants to help Haitians help themselves
… March 10. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) … PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti … -- After serving in Iraq and Congo, Luke King was sent to Haiti as country director to manage Catholic Relief Services' …
Religious ask Congo to quit downplaying violence
… Catholic News Service … DUNGU, Congo … -- Religious from the Diocese of Doruma-Dungu have asked the government to quit downplaying the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army in the far reaches of northern Congo. They also asked the government to establish a special commission to investigate the murder … and atrocities -- including grotesque bodily mutilations -- carried out by the LRA in northern Congo. Violations include a massacre of some 200 civilians in the village of Faradje, close to …
A voice for southern Sudan, a gestating new nation
… now operational, has extended Bakhita’s coverage to the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Salcido says. Meanwhile, Salcido has already made plans to put the old mast, only 30 …
Finding Christ at Christmas
… can, and missionaries toil where things are worst: in India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia. Every so often a newspaper runs a feature …
New Wikileaks docs show U.S. pressing Vatican on Iraq, GMOs
… Uganda and Rwanda to pull troops out of the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to participate in the peace process. • A September 2007 report on a conversation with …
Morning Briefing
… … Hughestown, Pa.: … Closed church ships furniture, items to Haiti … Democratic Republic of Congo: … “A genocide is developing,” reports local clergy … Clergy series: Catholic priest has …
Wuerl and Burke among 24 new cardinals
… Chiriboga (Ecuador), Archbishop of Quito 14. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (Democratic Republic of Congo), Archbishop of Kinshasa 15. Paolo Romeo (Italy), Archbishop of Palermo 16. Donald Wuerl …
The economy of conflict
… in our cellphones have to do with the recently reported rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC)? Apparently,quite a bit. The perpetrators of the rapes get much of their funds from … The 29-page bill recommends a number of strategies including: producing and publicizing a “Congo Conflict Minerals Map” that identifies mineral-rich zones under control of armed groups, …