"For a religious sister, living in Cuba today means navigating and taking on a series of structural and economic challenges that require an enormous capacity for adaptation and resilience," Sr. Noemy Ayala said.
The American Farm Bureau Federation's April 14 report noted, "Rising input costs tied to the conflict in the Middle East are adding strain to an already challenging farm economy."
After years of allegations of land dispossession by now-dissolved Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a symbolic reparation ceremony for the Indigenous people whose land was taken away was held on Saturday.
"Convert, change your ways, because what you are doing is not only a crime, it is a sin that cries out to God for vengeance," said Bishop Antonio Di Donna.
The federal government's planned 1.3-mile wall across Mount Cristo Rey, seen as a holy site where "faith transcends borders," has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The land targeted by the federal government is at the base of Mount Cristo Rey, a mountain and pilgrimage site topped by a 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus Christ.
After conversations among nearly 60 nations on ways to wean the world from fossil fuels, Catholics who attended the first-of-its-kind summit in Colombia left encouraged by the promise the conversations represented.
