James Carney pledged his life to the cause of destitute campesinos in Honduras, living and working among them as a parish priest and organizing campesino cooperatives to fight for land reform and human rights.
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Renewed fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia raising fears of ethnic cleansing
Many fear the endgame in the region will mean widespread loss of life and ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh unless global attention can be redirected to the crisis.
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Is a law that will stop most prosecutions of killings during ‘The Troubles’ really about protecting British soldiers?
With so many political and cultural forces arrayed against the Legacy and Reconciliation proposal, why has Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government pressed on?
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The evangelization of welcome: What the church can learn from a youth center in a poor Dominican neighborhood
The children and teens of Quitasueños can also take recreational classes, like hip-hop, dance and drama; and the center organizes summer camps in the mountains. Oh, and one more thing. The young people learn about God.
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Can a reform-minded president-elect change Guatemala’s political culture of corruption?
Bernardo Arévalo campaigned on an anti-graft agenda in a contest that many in Guatemala had assumed was rigged from the start against insurgent candidacies.
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South African Catholic bishops on building fire that killed 77: Blame the government, not immigrants
Following the tragedy, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued a statement that decried those who “unscrupulously exploit the homeless and the poor.”
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Helping pilgrims find Christ on Spain’s 500-mile Camino de Santiago
Pilgrims take the 500-mile Camino de Santiago pondering deeply personal questions, seeking insight through the journey or simply wanting time to reflect and encounter God. With Sister Katherine, they are able to talk through their experience and its unique lessons.
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Despite threats and government harassment, 11 Jesuits remain in Nicaragua
Those Jesuits who remain, he said, now face the “fundamental concern” of expulsion or detention if relations between the Society of Jesus and the government of former Sandinista comandante President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, grow any worse.
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Ecuador bishops: A ‘yes’ vote for the environment answers ‘the call of Pope Francis’
The church, while not taking sides in the political contests, went all in on the referendums to stop drilling on oil Block 43 inside the Yasuní and to end mining in the Chocó Andino, a highland biosphere near the capital.
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Jesuit residence in Nicaragua seized by Ortega regime
Nicaraguan officials ratcheted up a harassment campaign targeting Jesuits in Managua over the weekend.