Archbishop José H.Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote in a statement released on Feb. 12 that Pope Francis has provided “a hopeful and challenging vision of the future of the Amazon region.”
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Cardinal Dolan meets with Cuban President Díaz-Canel in Havana
Cardinal Dolan said he’d met Diaz-Canel twice before and the last time was in 2018, the year he took over the helm as head of Cuba from Raúl Castro.
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Salvadoran cardinal calls for prudence, patience amid political turmoil
Over the weekend of Feb. 8-9, the government ordered military and police to surround the legislative building, and on Feb. 9, the military forced its way into congressional chambers in a show of force.
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Jesuit provincials demand end to Nicaraguan harassment
Jesuit provincials have demanded that Nicaraguan authorities end a “campaign of slander and aggressions” against the Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua and its rector, Jesuit Father Jose Alberto Idiaquez.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan makes first visit to Cuba
Cardinal Dolan, in the midst of a six-day mission visit, his first to the island, thanked the three religious sisters of the order of St. Camillus of Lellis “for your example” after celebrating Sunday Mass with them and a group of more than two dozen residents of the facility.
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Report: At least 138 sent from U.S. to El Salvador were killed
A majority of the deaths documented by Human Rights Watch in the report Wednesday occurred less than a year after the deportees returned to El Salvador; some were within days. The organization also confirmed at least 70 cases of sexual assault or other violence following their arrival in the country.
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Colombian diocese, with some U.S. support, helps flood of Venezuelan refugees
The Nina Maria day care center is one of many projects run by the Diocese of Cucuta to help Venezuelan migrants, who are leaving their country to escape poverty, violence and an increasingly authoritarian government.
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Church agencies meet on Colombia-Venezuelan border to coordinate aid
Venezuelan migrants and refugees have ended up mostly in nearby countries like Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where governments have struggled to provide them with basic services.
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Pope Francis, a son of Argentina, welcomes its new president to the Vatican
“The pope is an Argentinian concerned for his fatherland and for his people. He loves the Argentinians very much.”
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In Amazon, without a priest, ‘there is a hole in the family’
Catholics who work in the Amazon say members of small, isolated villages believe the church could be more present in their lives if it allowed the ordination of married men.