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- Apr 22, 2021
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Vaccine scandals add to political tensions in Latin America
- Feb 23, 2021
As violence, corruption and vaccine scandals continue to shake Latin America, Catholic bishops are calling for people to avoid being “tempted by hatred,” to urge peace and to avoid the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Report: Nicaraguan government closing spaces for opposition
- Feb 12, 2021
State and paramilitary armed groups in Nicaragua continue to terrorize the population and attempt to close spaces for opposition in the run-up to elections scheduled for November, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights said in a report Thursday.
Catholic leaders urge TPS for Central Americans, aid for storm-ravaged nations
- Feb 11, 2021
Two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen and the head of Catholics Relief Services asked the Biden administration Feb. 10 to grant Temporary Protected Status for 18 months to foreign nationals from Central America in the United States and to provide aid to their hurricane-ravaged countries.
Nicaragua bishops fear violence ahead of 2021 presidential poll
- Dec 30, 2020
The Catholic bishops of Nicaragua are calling for a peaceful 2021, when presidential elections are set to be held.
Part One: Latin America’s biggest Catholic stories of 2020
- Dec 28, 2020
Not only were many situations in Latin America not put on pause by COVID-19 during 2020, they were actually exacerbated by the virus.
Twin storms, pandemic more disastrous than Mitch, says Honduran priest
- Nov 20, 2020
Two Honduran priests say the church is overwhelmed trying to provide humanitarian relief to victims of Hurricane Iota, barely two weeks after Hurricane Eta devastated the region.
‘It has been completely disastrous’: second hurricane hits Nicaragua
- Nov 17, 2020
Hurricane Iota struck Nicaragua 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta hit the Central American country just two weeks earlier, and early reports were of disastrous situations.
Category 5 hurricane set to hit Central America in same spot as Eta
- Nov 17, 2020
Church leaders in Central America prayed for protection as a second hurricane in less than two weeks stormed toward the already battered region.
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