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… Guatemala alone had some 200,000 fatalities. In El Salvador, there were 60,000 deaths, in Nicaragua 15,000 casualties. In Peru, first the violence of the "Sendero Luminoso," or Shining …

… from Washington, D.C., where he is working on another IHRC case involving a proposed canal in Nicaragua that, he said, "endangers many indigenous communities." "So many people have been …

… congregations -- Muslim, Christian, and Jewish -- to share one space in Nebraska A profile of Nicaraguan Jesuit Fr. Fernando Cardenal, former minister of education of his country, who died …

… of the poor and teaches that Christians have an obligation toward the oppressed. The poor of Nicaragua had barely enough food, no jobs, no schools, no access to healthcare. Cardenal saw … president’s repressive policies. At about the same time, Cardenal joined protests against Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle’s imprisonment and torture of those who came out … and continual headaches. When in 1976, he asked U.S. Congress to cut off military aid to Nicaragua and listed the atrocities committed by the Somoza regime, his headaches intensified. …

… Nicaragua priest who defied Vatican to champion literacy dies aged 82 …

… Churches in the archdiocese are connected with parishes in Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Grenada, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Palestine and Ghana, among other foreign …

… added, "are victims of human trafficking." Thousands of Cubans are stuck in Costa Rica after Nicaragua began preventing them from crossing its border in mid-November. Costa Rica also …

… Donovan, 27, a lay missionary who was engaged to be married, also from Cleveland. El Salvador, Nicaragua and Central America in general in 1980 were on the frontlines of American foreign …

… In the midst of this delicate ecosystem in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua have fought for centuries over pockets of land and tiny, barely inhabited islands set …

… and ministers at Dominican University in Chicago. After two years as a Jesuit Volunteer in Nicaragua, she earned a graduate degree in pastoral ministry. Her ministries have included …

… some of these dictatorships in Central America such as that of Anastasio Somoza García in Nicaragua. Of Somoza, Roosevelt said: “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” …

… On Aug. 25, Nicaraguan Bernardo Tercero sat alone in a small booth on death row in Livingston, Texas, talking … trial for the 1997 murder of Robert Berger. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega claimed Tercero’s rights had been violated and pleaded for …

… Francis in his place after he waxed very-informed-Roman about the evil of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. During the same evening, Francis argued that seminaries should be purged of gay men. …

… Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Leopoldo Brenes of Managua, Nicaragua; Jaime Ortega of Havana; Jose Maestrojuan of David, Panama; Roger Mahony of Los …

… MANAGUA, NICARAGUA -- … Managua with representatives of the Volunteer Missionary Movement. The group had traveled to Nicaragua from all over the U.S. to learn how Volunteer Missionary Movement programs and lay … in Medellín, Colombia. Later, Ernesto served as minister of culture in the early days of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, and Fernando as minister of education. "I never spoke with one …

… she accused him of rape. Joseph ended up in prison. In 2002, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo of Nicaragua likened the victims of clergy sex abuse to Potiphar's wife: "The reasons that drove …

… such as Peter Bottomley, a member of the British Parliament, the foreign minister of Nicaragua, the cardinal of Mexico representing the pope and bishops from various parts of Europe, …

… U.S. Southern Command in Panama, and U.S. embassies in Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Rome. The next day, Romero was assassinated …

… the Reagan administration's misguided anti-communism efforts in the 1980s. The Contra war in Nicaragua resulted in the death of our friend Carney, known as "Padre Guadalupe." He had spent 20 …

… developing partners. This has previously been used by the same partners in Philippines, Nicaragua and Mexico to vaccinate women against future pregnancy." The representatives in Kenya … in a vial of TT." In their Feb. 13 statement, the Kenyan bishops again referred to Mexico, Nicaragua and the Philippines, where they said "tetanus vaccination campaigns sponsored and …