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Catholic leaders urge TPS for Central Americans, aid for storm-ravaged nations
… 4 hurricanes Eta and Iota "devastated communities" in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the three Catholic leaders said. "In addition to providing life-saving humanitarian … of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. "Undoubtedly, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are facing the aftermath of an environmental … are underway, long-term recovery efforts will be required." The damage and economic losses in Nicaragua alone are expected to exceed $700 million, they said. Throughout the region, thousands …
Editorial: Biden's executive orders on immigration are just a start
… ever-useful Cold War-era threat of impending communist domination to justify interference in Nicaragua and Honduras . The U.S. during that period militarized Honduras and destabilized its economy while training Contra rebels to overthrow the government in neighboring Nicaragua. We in the United States are deeply connected to the circumstances, including this …
Former fighter pilot, rights activist priest dies at 97
… 1966 until Hinde's death in 2020. Campbell would go on to work at clinics and refugee camps in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador, sometimes under combat conditions. In Peru, …
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
… 95, a renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and across Latin America. He was suspended from performing his priestly duties by St. …
Extreme heat, wildfires, storms marked advance of climate change in 2020
… In Central America, powerful hurricanes Eta and Iota — two weeks apart in November — inundated Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, forcing tens of thousands of people from their …
TPS beneficiaries from seven countries to receive extension
… and because of ongoing litigation, TPS extensions for beneficiaries from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, Nepal and Sudan until October 2021. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network …
Your thoughts on learning lessons from Trump
… to infect the world. We reap what we sow. … MICHAEL J. McDERMOTT Tyler, Texas … *** I moved to Nicaragua from the U.S. 35 years ago. Why? I could no longer bear that our "American way of life" … He is exceptional. Tragically, he's far from the exception. … PAUL PEULEVÉ BAKER Managua, Nicaragua … *** Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister, God love her, has again exposed President Donald …
EarthBeat Weekly: In Advent, simple living brings abundant life
… of the pandemic. Hurricane Iota devastated a tiny Colombian island province off the coast of Nicaragua, destroying 80% of the buildings and damaging all of them, writes Cody Weddle for …
Church aids tiny Colombian island's residents left homeless by hurricane
… marked the first recorded Category 5 storm ever to hit the island, which sits off the coast of Nicaragua. The Colombian government estimates that the hurricane damaged 100% of structures, destroying eight of 10 of them. Iota later hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 storm, then barreled through Honduras, both already reeling from …
'It has been completely disastrous': second hurricane hits Nicaragua
… were still incommunicado and people were looking for family members. Hurricane Iota struck Nicaragua 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta hit the Central American country just two weeks … and early reports were of disastrous situations. The Category 4 storm hit the coast of Nicaragua near the border of Honduras around 9:40 p.m. Nov. 16, causing storm surges and flooding … of rice, yucca and plantains. Hurricane Iota weakened to a Category 2 storm as it crossed Nicaragua. It caused flooding and cause damage in neighboring Honduras and was eventually …
Christians and Muslims again top list of faiths facing hostility worldwide
… made them divert charitable donations to gang members' families," it added. In neighboring Nicaragua, according to Amnesty International — one of a phalanx of sources used by Pew to …
Hurricane Eta deluges Central America, Mexico, leaving scores dead, thousands homeless
… Caritas, the church's humanitarian aid agency, was responding to Eta, which came ashore in Nicaragua Nov. 3 and provoked devastating flooding and destruction even as it weakened and moved …
The Vatican's McCarrick report: a roster of likely figures
… diplomatic service for five decades. Among his assignments: apostolic nuncio, Honduras and Nicaragua (1974-80); apostolic pro-nuncio, Algeria and Tunisia (1980-86); apostolic pro-nuncio, …
Church responds as Hurricane Eta pounds Central America
… Service … Caritas, the church's charitable agency, was responding to Hurricane Eta, which hit Nicaragua Nov. 3 and threatened to provoke devastating flooding and destruction as it moved … through Central America. Hurricane Eta made landfall on the Mosquito Coast of northeastern Nicaragua near the municipality of Puerto Cabezas, where strong winds ripped the roofs off of … of Managua, Nicaragua, tweeted Nov. 2: "I lift up my prayer to the Lord for our brothers of Nicaragua's north Caribbean in the face of the imminent arrival of Hurricane #Eta. May God …
As election nears, Black and Latinx Catholics work for political inclusion
… de Guadalupe as the most important date on the calendar. The daughter of immigrants from Nicaragua now straddles the cultures of academia and activism, a worldview shaped by a sometimes …