How Jesuit Refugee Service is helping struggling farmers in the Catatumbo region stop producing coca and get back on their feet
Latin America
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Colombian farmers seek to plant peace in former coca fields
In the rural community of Las Palmas, a group of former coca farmers are replacing coca production with legitimate crops in the hope of promoting peace.
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A month after the ‘clean-up,’ a Nicaraguan community mourns three dead
On July 5, the Nicaraguan police, with masked and armed paramilitary support, attacked Sutiaba. The “clean-up operation,” as the government called it, resulted in three dead among the parishioners of Father Morales’ St. Peter Church.
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Bishops bloodied, churches besieged in Nicaragua crackdown
The church has tried to play a mediating role between Ortega’s Sandinista government and protesters who have increasingly demanded his ouster amid demonstrations and clashes in which about 450 people — most of them protesters — have been slain.
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Nicaraguan president denies responsibility for protestor deaths, attacks on Catholic Church
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said he will not move up elections despite street protests that have seen more than 300 deaths in the past three months, but is open to continuing a dialogue mediated by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Nicaraguan forces violently retake symbolic city
Government forces began advancing on Masaya’s Monimbo neighborhood before dawn and had largely regained control of it by the afternoon for the first time since massive protests against Ortega’s government began in mid-April.
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What is behind America’s changing views on immigration?
A growing number of Americans are open to increases in legal immigration, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
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Government allies attack priests at Nicaragua church siege
Supporters of Nicaragua’s government attacked a group of Roman Catholic priests led by Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes on Monday as they arrived to help anti-government protesters trapped inside a church.
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Pope Francis accepts two more bishops’ resignations in Chile
Pope Francis named two apostolic administrators to govern the now “vacant” dioceses.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
With no TV, how does Pope Francis follow the World Cup?
Francis vowed decades ago not to watch TV, but he still follows how Argentina is faring in the World Cup.