How Jesuit Refugee Service is helping struggling farmers in the Catatumbo region stop producing coca and get back on their feet
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Colombian farmers seek to plant peace in former coca fields
In the rural community of Las Palmas, a group of former coca farmers are replacing coca production with legitimate crops in the hope of promoting peace.
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U.S. Catholic physician a reluctant hero in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
“We’re supposed to show the face of Christ to people, but how can you do that if you take off when the going gets tough?” asked Dr. Tom Catena, a 54-year old physician from Amsterdam, New York.
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Catholics collect aid for victims of deadly Indonesian earthquake
Catholic groups have collected and are distributing aid for thousands of people affected by a deadly earthquake that struck Lombok, Indonesia’s popular tourist island.
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Nicaraguans fill Virginia church praying for peace at home
The Catholic Church in Nicaragua has faced numerous violent attacks from pro-government groups.
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Rescue group: Libya left migrants to die in Mediterranean
A migrant aid group has accused Libya’s coast guard of abandoning three people in the Mediterranean Sea, including a woman and a toddler who died, after intercepting 160 Europe-bound migrants near the shores of the North African nation.
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‘Donor fatigue’ among the threats to Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan
Few of the refugees are interested in returning to Iraq. “Return to what?” asks one Chaldean-Assyrian refugee. He says that “Iraq is a Frankenstein, not a state” because of the persistent ethnic and sectarian divisions.
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Death toll from a volcano eruption in Guatemala may far exceed the official count
The Fuego volcano eruption destroyed properties recently sold to indigenous Guatemalans for subsistence farming.
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New York City leaders and clergy rally in defense of immigrants at the border
Together they prayed for God to change anti-human rights policies, and the hearts of those who enforce them.
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Fifty years after MLK, Poor People’s Campaign continues fight
For almost 40 days, and some nights, a group of religiously affiliated people have prayed, marched, rallied, faced arrest or been arrested — all of it to call attention to what they believe is one of the fiercest battles waged by the powerful against the poor.