The alleged attacks started last fall and initially targeted U.S. agents stationed at the U.S. embassy in Havana.
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Venezuelans with HIV make tough choices as medicine becomes scarce
Many managing medical conditions like HIV must worry not only about their medication, but about putting food on the table.
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After Mexico’s earthquakes, ‘faith opens doors to psychological care’
“Most survivors suffer from severe anxiety or guilt.”
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In Puebla, Mexico, where churches don’t stand after an earthquake, people still pray
In the aftermath of the Sept. 19 earthquake, nearly every colorful and picturesque church is fractured and security perimeters make sure congregants cannot access them. Residents fear more might still tumble.
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‘We will rise up’: Catholics in Puerto Rico maintain hope as groups begin sending aid
Catholic Extension’s gift is meant to ensure that the spiritual needs of those suffering can also be met.
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Jesuit in Puerto Rico says hurricane devastation is ‘apocalyptic’
“It’s an avalanche of disasters, one disaster after another disaster.”
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While volunteers rebuild Mexican towns, a bishop accuses the government of stealing credit
The government response in Mexico City has been swift, but surrounding towns devastated by last week’s earthquake are frustrated by the slow arrival of aid.
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Mexicans’ response to quake like ‘hopping on a torrent of solidarity’
Thousands of volunteers and rescue squads have flooded Mexico City, where workers, electricians, nurses, students and others work side by side to save the last victims and bring relief to the survivors.
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Father Stanley Rother is the first U.S.-born priest to be named ‘blessed’
Father Stanley Rother is the first U.S. born priest to be named ‘blessed’
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Mexico’s earthquakes are a chance for cross-border solidarity. How will we respond?
The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.