Wells of Hope also is building homes for those in the community.
Latin America
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After the LeBarón family massacre, can Mexico’s López Obrador stop the violence?
Mr. LeBarón, the family’s spokesperson, said he hopes he can channel the grief and anger over the killings into a broad social movement. “We want to unite the whole country. We want a social movement, not a political one,” he said.
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U.S. Christian Brother kept ‘28-hour days’ to help indigenous Guatemalans
Blessed Miller was beatified Dec. 7 in Huehuetenango, where he was remembered as a martyr for education.
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Salvadoran bishop: Without justice, it’s hard to heal
El Salvador may have signed peace accords in 1992, he said, but there’s a lot of hurt that remains because justice has been elusive.
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The Legacy of ‘La Virgen del Tepeyac,’ a play about Our Lady of Guadalupe
The story of “La Virgen del Tepeyac” is about the birth of a people.
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Was there a coup in Bolivia? After Evo Morales, what’s next?
Was Mr. Morales’s departure from La Paz the result of a coup? Or was the president’s removal the result of a more or less defensible process?
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Nicaraguans in U.S. aim to draw attention to country’s violence
Following the bloodshed, the country’s Catholic bishops attempted to dialogue with the government.
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Priests guilty of abusing deaf children at Argentine school
The court also sentenced gardener Armando Gómez to 18 years in prison. The victims are 10 former students.
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Government supporters besiege another Nicaraguan church
On Nov. 21, Ortega supporters tried to enter St. John the Baptist Parish in Masaya, south of Managua, the capital, forcing churchgoers to barricade the doors with pews.
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Church becomes improvised morgue as Bolivian violence continues
A church located on the outskirts of Bolivia’s capital city became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in the South American country.