“My dream was that trans people could have a decent home. Because we don’t give them that opportunity,” said Sister Mónica Astorga Cremona.
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Another priest has been murdered in El Salvador. But there is still reason for hope.
An ambitious computer training program for at-risk youth seeks to be an engine for building a middle class for El Salvador.
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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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How Covid-19 made sex trafficking in Latin America much worse
The trafficking of women in Latin America has increased with the Covid-19 pandemic, according to church activists.
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After another priest is killed in El Salvador, local clergy ask ‘who will be next?’
A Catholic priest was found dead in El Salvador on Aug. 7, the most recent in a pattern of Salvadoran clergy killings over the past half century.
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Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, ‘bishop of the poor,’ dies in Brazil at 92
Due to his unrelenting defense of the indigenous population and peasants struggling for land ownership, Bishop Casaldaliga was seen as an enemy by land barons, miners and loggers.
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Franciscan, volunteers help homeless in Bogota survive pandemic
Members of the Franciscan order in Columbia are assembling people and resources to help the homeless of Bogota during the pandemic.
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Indigenous men in Honduras are being abducted. Are the police to blame?
Garifuna villages along the north coast of Honduras have set up roadblocks to demand answers about the enforced disappearances. “You took them alive, we want them alive!” protesters shouted.
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Nicaraguan bishops denounce Managua cathedral arson attack as ‘terrorism’
A still-unidentified assailant entered the cathedral’s Blood of Christ chapel and threw an explosive device. Flames engulfed the chapel, severely charring a 382-year old image of the crucified Christ.
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Nearly one-third of Brazilian bishops sign letter critical of government
In a draft of a letter to be presented to the executive committee of the bishops’ conference, more than 150 bishops accuse the federal government of “inaction and omission” in combating the coronavirus pandemic and of “inability and incapacity” to face the crisis.