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Mexican presidential hopefuls meet Pope Francis
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Mexico’s two main presidential candidates have met with Pope Francis in the prelude to the country’s election campaigns, marking a further retreat from the country’s previously...
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Mexican presidential candidates sign bishops’ peace plan; front-runner voices...
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The Mexican bishops’ conference, the Society of Jesus and the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious of Mexico convened the country’s three presidential candidates March 11...
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Church warns of Mexico’s drug cartels entering politics as candidates are killed
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — In an endless cycle of violence, the bishop of Orizaba, traveling with a group of priests, suffered an assault on a highway in the border area between Puebla and Veracruz, the...
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Mexico City is ‘waiting room’ for migrants as they sort out legal situation...
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Eliana Polo, a Venezuelan migrant, tried reaching the U.S. border atop a freight train with her husband and 4-year-old daughter, but was forced off by security officials some...
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Human rights advocate: Dictatorship profanes Nicaraguan churches
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) — Authorities in the city of León, Nicaragua, chose an unusual place for setting up a boxing ring and staging prize fights: the courtyard of the local cathedral. They...
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Bishops congratulate Mexico’s new president; country elects first female to...
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Mexico’s bishops congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum, who overwhelmingly won Mexico’s presidential election to become the country’s first female president — a historic...
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Critics express skepticism over U.S.-Panama deportation agreement
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Catholic groups working with migrants traversing the treacherous Darién Gap have expressed skepticism over a joint U.S.-Panama plan to deport people passing through the thick...
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Mexican government asks priests to take civics course
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Mexico’s Interior Ministry has requested the participation of priests in courses promoting “civic values” in the aftermath of the ruling Morena party’s massive electoral...
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Nicaraguan government removes Radio María from airwaves
The Nicaraguan government closed the country’s most prominent Catholic radio station as the Sandinista regime continues to persecute the church and increasingly infringe on citizens’ religious freedom...
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El gobierno de Ortega cierra Radio María en Nicaragua
El gobierno nicaragüense cerró la emisora de radio católica más importante del país, mientras el régimen sandinista continúa su persecución contra la Iglesia y atentando cada vez más contra la libertad...
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Buenos Aires no longer Argentina’s primatial see as pope switches see to...
Pope Francis has designated the provincial city of Santiago del Estero as Argentina’s primatial see in a move described by Catholic leaders as a historic “reparation” and a reflection of his preference...
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‘Parishes are on their own,’ says Nicaraguan priest as regime’s repression...
At least 11 churchmen have been detained by police and paramilitaries over a weeklong assault in northern Nicaragua, depleting the already demoralized Diocese of Matagalpa — whose leader, Bishop...
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‘We cannot be neutral,’ Venezuelan cardinals say, calling for full release of...
Pope Francis has called for both sides to “seek the truth” in Venezuela’s contested election as the opposition denounces electoral fraud — publishing tally sheets as proof — while the ruling Chavista...
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Seven exiled Nicaraguan priests arrive in Rome as Ortega regime continues to...
The Vatican confirmed Aug. 9 that seven priests expelled from Nicaragua arrived in Rome Aug. 8. They had been detained in an assault on a diocese headed by an outspoken bishop as the Ortega regime...
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Nicaragua extinguishes legal status for religious orders, evangelical...
The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians, another diocesan...
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Cardinal to Latin American church leaders: Welcome and protect migrants
Pope Francis’ point man on immigration has urged Catholics to “welcome and protect” migrants, who ply increasingly perilous paths as they flee hardship and danger — only to meet indifference and...
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Cardenal a los líderes eclesiásticos latinoamericanos: Acojan y protejan a...
El hombre clave del Papa Francisco en materia de inmigración ha instado a los católicos a “acoger y proteger” a los migrantes, que recorren caminos cada vez más peligrosos mientras huyen de las...
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Guatemala cardinal: Drug cartels wield ‘total power’ on border with Mexico
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, has warned that drug cartels control the border between Mexico and Guatemala, provoking spasms of violence that have sent...
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Mexico’s outgoing president compares himself to St. Francis
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Mexico’s outgoing president has compared himself to St. Francis of Assisi, highlighting his personal parsimony as a calling card in a country notorious for corrupt politics —...
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Mexican priest considered protector of the unborn beatified
MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Father Moisés Lira Serafin has been beatified in a ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in his native Mexico, where he is beloved as a protector of life from...
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