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Caracas, Venezuela

High demand, low resources: Nursing home endures Venezuela's economic crisis

by Cody Weddle
Apr 10, 2018

The most dreaded part of Sr. Emilia Rivero's day comes each morning.

When she opens the door to the nursing home she runs in downtown Caracas, she almost always finds six to eight senior citizens, sometimes with their families, waiting outside, hoping she has space. Rivero usually has to turn them away.

"We can't take in anybody else because of the food situation. We have to give them three meals a day and we can't," she said.

Venezuelan bishops: Jail fire that killed 68 could have been prevented

by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Apr 2, 2018

A jail riot and fire that killed 68 people in Venezuela's deadliest tragedy in decades could have been prevented, according to the Venezuelan bishops' conference.

Cardinal says Venezuela must take blame for 10 election-related deaths

by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Jul 31, 2017

Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino said the nation's government must take the blame for at least 10 deaths related to a controversial election.

"This is the responsibility of the president of the republic, the high command, and the ministers," Urosa told the Caracas newspaper El Nacional July 31. "They will have to explain this to God" and the courts.

Some Venezuelans went to the polls July 30 to elect members of a Constituent Assembly, a 545-member body charged with drafting a new constitution for the country.

Bishops say Venezuela aims to install 'military dictatorship'

by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Jul 10, 2017

Venezuela's bishops said the country's government aims to install a "military dictatorship, socialist, Marxist and communist."

Venezuelan bishops call for civil disobedience in constitutional crisis

by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Apr 6, 2017
by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Apr 6, 2017

Attacks show Venezuelan government relations with Catholics deteriorating

by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Mar 13, 2017
by Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service
Mar 13, 2017

As Venezuela's economic crisis deepens, sisters struggle to bring food to the malnourished

by Cody Weddle
Feb 16, 2017
by Cody Weddle
Feb 16, 2017

Caracas cardinal asks Venezuelans to pray for ailing president

by Catholic News Service
Jan 3, 2013
by Catholic News Service
Jan 3, 2013

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