The diocese said the respirator, delivered to the Campanha de Maraba Hospital July 12 by the apostolic nunciature in Brazil, was one of four sent by the pope to Brazil, which has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.
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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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Focolare member in Colombia pays it forward by helping fellow migrants
Pandemic or not, the work of providing care and assistance for others continues with members of the Focolare movement helping Venezuelan migrants in Columbia.
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Judge strikes down Trump administration’s ‘third-country asylum rule’
A federal judge has ruled that a Trump administration policy regarding asylum seekers was unlawfully implemented.
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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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Amazon churches create transnational body to implement synod proposals
Vatican officials said the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon aims to be “an effective channel for taking up, from within the territory, many of the proposals that emerged” at the Pan-Amazonian synod.
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Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas has said that the Trump Administration’s restrictive immigration measures are literally sending migrants to their death.
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U.S. deporting Guatemalans has led to spread of COVID-19, report says
In a report, Refugees International claims that U. S. immigration policy of denying asylum to Guatemalans–in addition to poor living conditions–has led to the spread of coronavirus throughout the Americas.
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Brazil seeks to protect indigenous communities from coronavirus
The surge of deaths of indigenous in the Amazon region due to COVID-19 may lead to the decimation of entire communities, say those fighting for indigenous rights.
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Salvadoran bishops defend cardinal after online attacks
After calling for transparency and dialogue in the country, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, found himself under attack, including being called a “Judas” and other names via social media.