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Russia, China, Myanmar recommended for State Department list of religious freedom violators
… Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkey and Uzbekistan. The State Department included Cuba and Nicaragua on that second-tier list in December 2020. USCIRF cited violations such as raids on …
Remembering Fr. John Giuliani, iconographer priest who celebrated Native spirituality in his art
… New York and afar. Attendees added their talent and treasure to aid projects in Appalachia, Nicaragua and the Caribbean over the decades. Some men recalled helping to raise a pre-Civil …
Pax Christi panel highlights role of US intervention in creating Central American crises
… by Pax Christi for International Women's Day, speakers representing Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua discussed the role of U.S. intervention in creating political and economic crises in … of El Salvador; Carla Garcia of Honduras (who lives in New York); and Yolanda Areas Blas of Nicaragua, spoke about the impact of U.S. intervention in their countries. "We always are … Nicaragua but all of the peoples of all the world to the will of the United States," she said. "Nicaragua is committed to sticking with this government and not switching to a neoliberal …
Catholic leaders urge TPS for Central Americans, aid for storm-ravaged nations
… 4 hurricanes Eta and Iota "devastated communities" in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the three Catholic leaders said. "In addition to providing life-saving humanitarian … of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. "Undoubtedly, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are facing the aftermath of an environmental … are underway, long-term recovery efforts will be required." The damage and economic losses in Nicaragua alone are expected to exceed $700 million, they said. Throughout the region, thousands …
Editorial: Biden's executive orders on immigration are just a start
… ever-useful Cold War-era threat of impending communist domination to justify interference in Nicaragua and Honduras . The U.S. during that period militarized Honduras and destabilized its economy while training Contra rebels to overthrow the government in neighboring Nicaragua. We in the United States are deeply connected to the circumstances, including this …
Former fighter pilot, rights activist priest dies at 97
… 1966 until Hinde's death in 2020. Campbell would go on to work at clinics and refugee camps in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador, sometimes under combat conditions. In Peru, …
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
… 95, a renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and across Latin America. He was suspended from performing his priestly duties by St. …
Extreme heat, wildfires, storms marked advance of climate change in 2020
… In Central America, powerful hurricanes Eta and Iota — two weeks apart in November — inundated Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, forcing tens of thousands of people from their …
TPS beneficiaries from seven countries to receive extension
… and because of ongoing litigation, TPS extensions for beneficiaries from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, Nepal and Sudan until October 2021. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network …
Your thoughts on learning lessons from Trump
… *** I moved to Nicaragua from the U.S. 35 years ago. Why? I could no longer bear that our "American way of life" … "necessary" to support that unjust standard of living. And they're just the beginning. Nicaraguans face temperature rises of three to six degrees Celsius, though they contribute … PAUL PEULEVÉ BAKER Managua, Nicaragua …
EarthBeat Weekly: In Advent, simple living brings abundant life
… of the pandemic. Hurricane Iota devastated a tiny Colombian island province off the coast of Nicaragua, destroying 80% of the buildings and damaging all of them, writes Cody Weddle for …
Church aids tiny Colombian island's residents left homeless by hurricane
… marked the first recorded Category 5 storm ever to hit the island, which sits off the coast of Nicaragua. The Colombian government estimates that the hurricane damaged 100% of structures, destroying eight of 10 of them. Iota later hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 storm, then barreled through Honduras, both already reeling from …
'It has been completely disastrous': second hurricane hits Nicaragua
… A Nicaraguan priest said Hurricane Iota hit the northeastern corner of the country with "more … were still incommunicado and people were looking for family members. Hurricane Iota struck Nicaragua 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta hit the Central American country just two weeks … and early reports were of disastrous situations. The Category 4 storm hit the coast of Nicaragua near the border of Honduras around 9:40 p.m. Nov. 16, causing storm surges and flooding …
Christians and Muslims again top list of faiths facing hostility worldwide
… made them divert charitable donations to gang members' families," it added. In neighboring Nicaragua, according to Amnesty International — one of a phalanx of sources used by Pew to …
Hurricane Eta deluges Central America, Mexico, leaving scores dead, thousands homeless
… Caritas, the church's humanitarian aid agency, was responding to Eta, which came ashore in Nicaragua Nov. 3 and provoked devastating flooding and destruction even as it weakened and moved …
The Vatican's McCarrick report: a roster of likely figures
… diplomatic service for five decades. Among his assignments: apostolic nuncio, Honduras and Nicaragua (1974-80); apostolic pro-nuncio, Algeria and Tunisia (1980-86); apostolic pro-nuncio, …
Church responds as Hurricane Eta pounds Central America
… Caritas, the church's charitable agency, was responding to Hurricane Eta, which hit Nicaragua Nov. 3 and threatened to provoke devastating flooding and destruction as it moved … of Managua, Nicaragua, tweeted Nov. 2: "I lift up my prayer to the Lord for our brothers of Nicaragua's north Caribbean in the face of the imminent arrival of Hurricane #Eta. May God protect the region's population and the Nicaraguan people who have suffered so much." At least 19 chapels were being used as shelters, …
As election nears, Black and Latinx Catholics work for political inclusion
… de Guadalupe as the most important date on the calendar. The daughter of immigrants from Nicaragua now straddles the cultures of academia and activism, a worldview shaped by a sometimes …
Nicaraguan Catholic leaders decry government's repressive measures
… Catholic leaders in Nicaragua have expressed alarm at several proposed laws that could prohibit groups and … could impose life sentences on opponents. Bishop Juan Mata Guevara of Estelí, president of the Nicaraguan bishops' conference, called the proposals "disastrous" and used his homily during the … of Managua's peace and justice committee said in an Oct. 5 statement. "I join the people of #Nicaragua in rejecting all attempts by the regime to prevent freedom of expression in our …
Why aren't pollsters asking how religion affects Latinos' voting?
… word "Latino" suggests. In D.C. in the 1980s, most of the immigrants were from El Salvador and Nicaragua, but by the time the new century rolled in, other Central Americans and Mexicans had …