Peru

Cardinals rue Amazon priest shortage, but don’t offer solutions
- Church in the Americas
- May 17, 2019
Two of the heaviest-hitting cardinals with a hand in organizing the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon have voiced concern about the priest shortage in the region but shied away from offering concrete proposals for how to fix the problem.
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Peruvian archbishop elected new president of CELAM
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- May 16, 2019
Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference, was elected to head the Latin American bishops’ council, or CELAM, during a May 15 meeting of bishops from 22 Latin American and Caribbean bishops’ conferences.
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Archbishop’s lawyer confirms charges against journalist to be dropped
- Church in the Americas
- May 16, 2019
The lawyer representing a Peruvian archbishop who last month withdrew criminal complaints against two journalists has clarified that a delay in dropping the second case is due to a procedural issue, not because they are backtracking on the decision.
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Defending freedom of the press in an era of ‘fake news’
- News Analysis
- May 5, 2019
Although freedom of the press may be abused, that doesn’t mean the concept isn’t critically important.
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Peruvian archbishop drops criminal complaint against second journalist
- Church in the Americas
- Apr 25, 2019
After yesterday’s decision to withdraw his legal complaint against Peruvian journalist Pedro Salinas, Archbishop Jose Antonio Eguren Anselmi of Piura has decided to retract a second complaint against journalist Paola Ugaz on grounds that the cases disrupted the unity of the local church.
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Prelate withdraws charge against journalist amid Church, media backlash
- Church in the Americas
- Apr 25, 2019
Peruvian journalist Pedro Salinas has hit back against the judge who issued his guilty verdict in a criminal defamation case launched by an archbishop, saying her grounds for the sentence were biased and based solely on arguments of the prosecution.
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