Sister Norma Pimentel says that migrants that come for help ask for safety as well as sustenance.
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Catholic community split over ‘amicable agreement’ for 1997 massacre of Indigenous peoples
The attack on a pacifist community during prayer and the sheer cruelty — with the assailants chasing victims through a cloud forest for hours and not even sparing four pregnant women — highlighted the struggles of Indigenous communities in Chiapas.
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Mexican parishes refocus aid responses as coronavirus pandemic drags on
Many parishes lack resources, having not received money in the collection basket because of suspended services.
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Catholic leaders call for action on decade-old massacre of migrants in Mexico
Catholic church authorities are demanding an investigation into one of Mexico’s most notorious crimes: the murder a decade ago of 72 migrants by drug cartel gunmen.
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Bolivian bishop, promoter of missions, dies of Covid-19
A tireless promoter of missionary work, Italian-born Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini of El Alto, Bolivia devoted his life to the people of his adopted country.
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Ex-Salvadoran officer: ‘High command’ gave order to kill Jesuits in ’89
The testimony was offered at the trial of Inocente Orlando Montano, a former colonel in the army of El Salvador, on trial in Spain for the murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter on the campus of a Catholic university in 1989.
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Argentine slum priests call government response to Covid-19 inadequate
“We see with increasing urgency the need for a state intelligently existing and dialoguing with the community to respond to the emergency produced by the pandemic,” they said.
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Ex-Salvadoran colonel goes on trial in Spain for 1989 Jesuit murders
A Salvadoran military commander is on trial in Spain for his involvement for the murder of the Salvadoran martyrs at the Jesuit-run Central American University over three decades ago.
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Jesuit rector to Salvadoran president: Show some accountability
Father Andreu Oliva, rector of the Jesuit Jose Simeon Canas Central American University in El Salvador, issued a blistering assessment of the first year in office for President Nayib Bukele.
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Mexican bishops announce ‘families without hunger’ plan amid coronavirus
Mexico has recorded 13,842 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,305 deaths, the Health Secretariat reported April 26.