Beyond the US, the Top Five countries for beefs with the Pope
- Sep 15, 2019
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Recalling the harrowing trip to and across the border as a child
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Aug 24, 2019
Bessy was 8 and Johnny was 2 when they made the almost 2,000-mile journey from their native El Salvador with their mother, who yearned to have her family reunited.
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Salvadoran bishops express concern over treatment of migrants
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Jul 24, 2019
Bishops from El Salvador have expressed concern over the treatment of migrants trying to reach the United States.
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Drowned father and daughter mourned at El Salvador cemetery
- Associated Press, Church in the Americas
- Jul 1, 2019
A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas were brought to their final rest Monday, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the Rio Grande circled the globe.
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Border deaths spark condemnation by Salvadorans, other Catholics in U.S.
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jun 28, 2019
The bodies of a young father and his toddler are expected to be returned to El Salvador in late June for burial, days after they were swept up by a current in the Rio Grande River during an attempted border crossing into the United States.
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Pope Francis ‘deeply saddened’ by drowning deaths at U.S.-Mexico border
- Vatican
- Jun 26, 2019
Pope Francis is “profoundly saddened” by the death of the father and daughter from El Salvador who were photographed after they drowned while they attempted to cross the Rio Grande to reach the United States.
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Salvadoran authorities arrest sacristan as suspect in priest killing
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Jun 15, 2019
A 34-year-old sacristan is in the custody of Salvadoran authorities in connection with the May killing of a Salvadoran priest.
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