BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — Catholic leaders in Central America expressed alarm over the idea of repealing a national prohibition on extractive activities in El Salvador — putting the church …
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Faith, hope ‘work miracles,’ pope tells people of Nicaragua ahead of Immaculate Conception
by David Agrenby David AgrenBUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for a day of prayer for …
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(OSV News) — El Salvador has ordered a former president to stand trial for the 1989 murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter — a notorious crime …
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MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The ruling Sandinista regime expelled the president of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, further decimating the country’s Catholic leadership as clergy are forced into exile. Bishop …
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Indigenous priest shot dead in Mexico’s increasingly violent Chiapas state
by David Agrenby David AgrenMEXICO CITY (OSV News) — An Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, where the Catholic Church has denounced government …
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10 years after Mexican students’ abduction, parents still don’t know where their children are
by David Agrenby David AgrenMEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Cristina Bautista has never stopped searching for her son, who was among the 43 students who disappeared in a 2014 attack that has never been …
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MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Father Moisés Lira Serafin has been beatified in a ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in his native Mexico, where he is …
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Nicaragua extinguishes legal status for religious orders, evangelical congregations
by David Agrenby David Agren(OSV News) — The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians, another diocesan Caritas …
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7 exiled Nicaraguan priests arrive in Rome as Ortega regime continues to target church
by David Agrenby David Agren(OSV News) — The Vatican confirmed Aug. 9 that seven priests expelled from Nicaragua arrived in Rome Aug. 8. They had been detained in an assault on a diocese headed …
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‘Parishes are on their own,’ says Nicaraguan priest as regime’s repression targets diocese
by David Agrenby David Agren(OSV News) — At least 11 churchmen have been detained by police and paramilitaries over a weeklong assault in northern Nicaragua, depleting the already demoralized Diocese of Matagalpa — whose …
