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… called Basmeh & Zeitooneh that is helping Syrian refugees learn work skills and to Caritas Nicaragua, which is helping women to learn farming skills to help sustain their families and earn …

… use them quickly fall under the control of the drug cartels. After all, there are reasons why Nicaraguan children, poor as they are, have not come knocking at our borders. One reason is that the Nicaraguan government has not let our military inside their borders. Biden is certainly right …

… a 5-year-old Syrian refugee in Lebanon named Tanious, the struggling Ramirez family in rural Nicaragua. It also offers a number of meatless recipes from around the world. The website …

… the idea of being elevated to cardinal "crazy," though a congratulatory phone call from Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano of Managua made him think the message was no joke. …

… CIA also developed the "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare" manual to help train Nicaraguan Contras, whom the Reagan administration armed and financed in an effort to overthrow … the Sandinista government in the 1980s . The manual advocated that Contras assassinate Nicaraguan officials, "provoke riots or shootings," and seize power through acts of torture and terrorism. The training manual, along with the CIA's mining of Nicaraguan harbors, played a part in a ruling by the International Court of Justice that the …

… We are just back from a visit to our sister parish in Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Our parish has been going there … top of the list. Sometimes the committee has to walk for hours just to visit one family. The Nicaraguan committee there hires workers to build the houses. Currently there are two crews with …

… . ICYMI: Read this feature from Tom Boswell on his return to Nicaragua …

… the speaker's platform with the leaders, think about the ones who died. --Fr. Ernesto Cardenal Nicaragua. Land of green mountains, lakes and a necklace of volcanoes. Land of poets. Land of … Managua, where Ortega has erected an immense steel figure of César Augusto Sandino, the Nicaraguan hero who waged war against the U.S. Marines before being murdered by Anastasio Somoza …

… in California and Fr. Kenneth Walker in Arizona; and one priest each in Canada, Colombia, Nicaragua and Peru. …

… one year later, Marentes was called on to join a select group of 100 social justice workers in Nicaragua. Someone suggested the pope would be interested in meeting the group. "I personally …

… Five have ended their connection to the school: Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Pablo Ruiz Espinoza, SOA Watch's Latin America coordinator in Chile who spent years …

… campaign, Kariuki said. WHO carried out similar vaccination campaigns in Mexico in 1993 and in Nicaragua and the Philippines in 1994. "What is immoral and evil is that the tetanus laced with …

… when they stem from encounters with real people. I spent the summer of 2013 in Managua, Nicaragua, with the Mev Puleo Scholarship , a theological immersion program through Saint Louis … we were. Roasting in the morning heat as we cleared undergrowth with machetes alongside our Nicaraguan friends, I had a blister about five minutes into the job. Where were my campesino …

… in all. Among them is a large representation from Central America -- Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador -- as well as from countries of West Africa, the Caribbean and South …

… to Central American anti-communist rebels looking to overthrow the Sandinista Regime in Nicaragua — the so-called Iran-Contra affair. Over the past 10-plus years, North, who is a born …

… poor in these countries even poorer. But poverty can't explain the current crisis. Neighboring Nicaragua -- the poorest country in Central America -- has very few child migrants. A May 27 … 1980s, when the Reagan administration pressured its leaders into joining the U.S. war against Nicaragua -- a war condemned by the International Court of Justice for "unlawful use of force." … tried to recruit Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega, a five-time graduate of SOA, to destroy a Nicaraguan airport and an oil refinery. What's more, secret manuals were produced during the …

… spiritually based” organization providing education and community development in Nicaragua. …

… Fr. Miguel D'Escoto in a private conversation arranged by Maryknoll friends during a visit to Nicaragua in 1983. Bolivia, where I was a missionary priest, had just emerged the year before … were trying to rebuild the bonds of social peace there and I wanted to learn something of the Nicaraguan experience. D'Escoto had been serving as the foreign minister of Nicaragua since the 1979 victory of the Sandinista Revolution. D'Escoto was most friendly and …

… of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, personally when Miguel was the foreign minister of Nicaragua during the days of the Sandinistas (1979-90). They were friends and allies, both … the Quixote Center, where Bill was a co-director, was shipping millions in humanitarian aid to Nicaragua under a program called Quest for Peace , a program that continues today. That aid was … However, those of us who worked alongside Bill were strongly suspicious that his work with Nicaragua was ultimately behind his suspension and l ouster. Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, …

… ago to stop his priestly ministry because he refused to give up his political position in Nicaragua's Sandinista government. …