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… similar to that of the Sandinistas, who had recently overthrown the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. However, government-sponsored violence increased, as I had seen that morning when a … dollars into propping up the Salvadoran military and government in order to prevent “another Nicaragua.” Neoconservatives and the Reagan administration portrayed Central America as a …

… Rome and Northern Ireland, in Syria and Lebanon, in South Africa and Angola, India and China, Nicaragua and El Salvador, in Washington and Jackson. Let us break bread together; let us relive …

… revolution like the one that had toppled the Somoza dictatorship in neighboring Nicaragua in 1979, poured an estimated $5 billion into the conflict from 1980 to 1992. Fought to …

… some of his writings and an interview with his daughter Elizabeth, today a Maryknoll sister in Nicaragua. (For the full issue, where I gleaned these details, and other information, see: …

… Africa and other places where change looked hopeless and then it happened. Remember Somoza in Nicaragua scurrying to his private plane, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos hurriedly assembling their …

… GRANADA, DEPT. OF GRANADA, NICARAGUA The Integral Development Project (IDP) is located in the rural community of Los Cocos, about ten miles from Granada, Nicaragua. It consists of a school, a bakery, job training, and agricultural projects. The work … component in sex education to transform the "machismo" that characterized the rural society in Nicaragua. The following programs were initiated to give impetus to this undertaking: Sex …

… classes. They participated in church programs and ministries, including hosting a woman from Nicaragua who needed medical attention in the United States. By the late 1990s, even after …

… Former head of the San Salvador seminary and of the Jesuit University in Managua, Nicaragua, he worked every weekend among the poor in Soyapango. I remember having lunch with him …

… was the U.S. Ambassador in Honduras, trying to find ways to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua next door. These movements have long said that their constitution was written – …

… in Late-Term Abortion In Canada, removal of gay altar servers causes flap Call to reverse Nicaragua's abortion ban Archbishop of Canterbury on homsexual unions Cistone to be installed as …

… a four-time graduate whose home was frequently used as a detention center; and Ricardo Lau, a Nicaraguan contra and former commander in Somoza’s National Guard, who was assigned to help the …

… attention to the need for self-determination for the people of that region. He applauded Nicaragua under the Sandinistas for moving in that direction, but noted that this was still … That is why the Central Intelligence Agency is financing an army of ‘contras’ attacking Nicaragua and Russians are fighting in Afghanistan. ttttt… “Too often our leaders have given aid …

… He will replace the current UN General Assembly president, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, when the next assembly session convenes on Sept. 15. Read more here: …

… non-communist. The Reagan administration used Kirkpatrick’s distinction to arm the contras in Nicaragua, which overlooked other agents of change, such as the church, at work in the country. …

… anti-communist proxy wars in Central America while the bishops opposed human rights abuses in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala; the bishops’ letter on economics was critical of US …

… survivor; and a former Sandinista, a woman who helped bring down the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. I’ve also worked with ovarian and breast cancer patients, and people suffering from …

… MANAGUA, NICARAGUA … officials that they’re trying to “destabilize” the Sandinista government, church leaders in Nicaragua have requested a meeting with President Daniel Ortega in an effort to salvage souring … pact between Ortega and liberal party boss Arnoldo Alemán, the two leaders have filled Nicaragua’s democratic institutions with party loyalists. Alemán is an ex-president who was …

… shareholder activism. Fr. Crosby’s interest in the tobacco industry began after traveling to Nicaragua in 1980, and seeing the struggles that farmworkers were going through in the fields. He …

… youths in 15 U.S. cities plus five abroad (two in Canada, one each in Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua) -- is the largest faith-based shelter for homeless youth in the world. Ryan said the …

… Samuel Santos LÛpez, right, Nicaraguan foreign minister, congratulates Fr. Miguel díEscoto Brockmann following the priestís … Assembly in New York June 4. (CNS/United Nations/Paulo Filgueiras) Samuel Santos LÛpez, right, Nicaraguan foreign minister, congratulates Fr. Miguel díEscoto Brockmann following the priestís … at U.N. headquarters in New York, where the Maryknoll priest and former foreign minister of Nicaragua serves as president of the U.N. General Assembly. Highlights of their conversation …