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Latin America
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Why are so many people fleeing Honduras?
“We are living in calamity, a humanitarian crisis in Honduras. Today they left. Tomorrow they will leave…. Three hundred people leave Honduras every day.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Brazil’s new Catholic president promises conservative moral agenda
Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a Catholic who campaigned to rid the nation of corruption, will take office Jan. 1 with a conservative moral agenda.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I took in a Honduran refugee. It was no big deal—really.
In the “current climate” it has evidently become much easier to hate. But it has also easy to feel self-satisfied about doing the smallest amount of good.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
With help from people and the church in Mexico, refugee caravan pushes on
Many members of the caravan say that the generosity of Mexican citizens helps them keep moving to their destination, the U.S. border still some 1,500 miles to the north.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The ‘crisis’ of the migrant caravan is one of misperception
The real threat to the United States is not the unarmed migrants making a dangerous trek through Mexico, it is the fear and hate that sensationalized coverage of the caravan has fomented.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Humanitarian groups at U.S.-Mexico border prepare for the migrant caravan
Catholic aid groups are among those preparing for migrants fleeing violence in Central America—and who may face a U.S. border slammed shut to asylum seekers.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Venezuelans flee crisis at home but face rising tensions in Brazil
About 5,000 people leave Venezuela every day. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, at least 1.9 million Venezuelan citizens have left the country since 2015, fleeing from the economic and political crisis that the country is experiencing under President Nicolás Maduro.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A church of stories, a story of church
Natalia Imperatori-Lee draws upon a variety of sources to develop an ecclesiology that is shaped by narratives as much as dogmatic theology.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Graveyard Mass honors Mexican women who pursued truth about drug war victims
The women seeking justice for vanished loved ones in Veracruz, Mexico, won the Notre Dame award for human rights. University President John I. Jenkins co-celebrated a Mass near the unmarked graves of drug war victims.