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… Caribbean States within the United Nations unanimously chose the former foreign minister of Nicaragua as president. D’Escoto will hold the post throughout the United Nations’ 63rd session, … padre. “The poor have been my lifelong concern,” he said. Born in Los Angeles in 1933 to a Nicaraguan diplomat and his wife, d’Escoto spent his youth in Nicaragua. He returned to the United States at 14, attending a Maryknoll-run high school in …

… Did you see our brother? He is El Salavadorian, a Guatemalteco, un Mexicano, up from Nicaragua, all the way from Panama. He has traveled overland by foot from places where the ruling …

… product, come from the United States. Blake Schmidt is a freelance writer who lives in Nicaragua. …

… people in Minneapolis, and then went on to help start a ministry of presence in Managua, Nicaragua, with two other members of her community. The three women lived for seven years in “a … of her life -- theater and ministry. Barsody had come to the Bay Area on a sabbatical from Nicaragua. A mutual friend, who figured Barsody and Jorgensen were kindred spirits, suggested …

… Laghi was ordained a priest in 1946, entered the diplomatic corps in 1952, and was posted to Nicaragua. After a period in Rome, in 1969 Laghi was named the pope’s envoy to Jerusalem and …

… Since becoming UN General Assembly President last fall, d’Escoto - a Maryknoll priest from Nicaragua - has criticized both the Israeli’s treatment of Palestinians and the United States’ …

… Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. (D’Escoto is a Los Angeles-born Maryknoll priest. He served as Nicaragua’s foreign minister from 1979-1990, and was elected president of the U.N. General …

… it was founded 25 years ago, Witness for Peace would send delegations of North Americans into Nicaraguan war zones where the US-backed Contra rebels were waging a guerrilla war that had deadly consequences for Nicaragua’s compasenos. Once in place, even in the areas of heaviest fighting, the presence of …

… MANAGUA, Nicaragua … Amid recent violent protests over the results of municipal elections in Nicaragua, the country's bishops have called for peace and a recount of votes. Archbishop … "people feel defrauded" over the Nov. 9 election results, which favored supporters of leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. In the elections, Ortega allies were declared winners in 94 …

… Amid recent violent protests over the results of municipal elections in Nicaragua, the country's bishops have called for peace and a recount of votes. Archbishop … "people feel defrauded" over the Nov. 9 election results, which favored supporters of leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. In the elections, Ortega allies were declared winners in 94 … of violence, wherever it comes from, since the church is the first one who wants peace," the Nicaraguan bishops' conference said in a letter. The bishops said the ongoing violence "renews …

… the former dictator of Panama. Nearly 60,000 alumni have returned to Bolivia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to suppress human rights leaders, political dissidents and innocent civilians swept up …

… most notably its efforts on behalf of women’s equality and solidarity with the people of Nicaragua. About a dozen people currently share the work of the center. When the center began its … ties with Nicaragua were further cemented in 1991 when it assumed responsibility for the Nicaraguan Cultural Alliance, an initiative of the Embassy of Nicaragua in Washington during the …

… at those services of the Word? They’re women. I know from my own experience of having been in Nicaragua for a short time that many women are the animators of those communities, and they are …

… my most important days were still to come -- days in Iraq, India, Haiti, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Northern Ireland and Palestine. Or my years of banishment to a …

… Juan Diego was born. The original idea was to serve refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua who were streaming into the Houston area because of civil wars in Central America. "The …

… the legacy of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero still "looms large," Father Brackley said. In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas also had strong ties to Catholic activists, but many supporters became disenchanted after the party came to power and became entangled in corruption scandals. Nicaragua has recently been campaigning behind the scenes to take over in June the rotating role … the government is suggesting for the task is Maryknoll Father Miguel D'Escoto, who served as Nicaraguan foreign minister, 1979-1990. The Sandinista president from that era, Daniel Ortega, …

… the country formed a critical corridor between the Contra revolt against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and El Salvador's efforts to put down the Marxist FMLN. John Negroponte, today deputy …

… were fellow leftists Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, along with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Taken in tandem with Chavez’s recent … prompting official protests and hard feelings. Ortega’s clashes with the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, especially during the early days of the Sandinista Revolution, are by now the stuff of … example, said in a press conference last week that recent election results in Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela amount to a repudiation of Latin America’s status as a “back porch” of …

… Ernesto Cardenal crossed that line by serving as Minister of Culture under the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and was publicly rebuked by Pope John Paul II during his 1983 trip to the country. …

… of Maryknoll had spent years in Chile; Sr. Maura Clarke also of Maryknoll had spent years in Nicaragua; and Sr. Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun from Cleveland worked in El Salvador. The … is evil. That's what we have to wrestle and fight against." Sr. Maura Clarke spent 17 years in Nicaragua working against the U.S.-backed Somozoa dictatorship, before moving to El Salvador only …