Select Page
by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Gang violence, Mexico, Mexico bishops, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Mexico’s Catholic leaders are calling for a day of prayer as violence continues crippling the country and priests and bishops raise their voice on an issue that puts them in conflict with Mexico’s popular president.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, Mexico bishops, murdered priests, News | 0 |
Mexico’s Catholic bishops’ conference called Monday on parishes throughout the country to put photos of dead nuns and priests in their churches this Sunday and to hold Masses for all those killed in gang-fueled violence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, Mexico bishops, murdered priests, News | 0 |
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican bishops’ conference called on the country’s president to revise his security strategy as violence continues convulsing Mexico and claiming innocent lives, including clergy. The bishops’ statement followed the slayings of two Jesuits and a person they were protecting in their parish — a crime attributed […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, lead, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
During the visit of Pope Francis’s top diplomat to Mexico on Tuesday, both sides promised to cooperate in building peace and protecting human rights.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 22, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Gang violence, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News | 0 |
The Mexican bishops’ conference asked all Mexicans to become peace builders, noting they have even made it their top pastoral priority in the country besieged by drug cartels and criminal gangs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Liberation theology, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News, Obituary | 0 |
Retired Bishop Onésimo Cepeda Silva of Ecatepec – the controversial Mexican bishop who rubbed shoulders with the rich, served one of the country’s roughest dioceses and made a brief, but disastrous foray into electoral politics – died Jan. 31.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News, Remain in Mexico | 0 |
Mexico’s bishops expressed disappointment with their government’s willingness to go along with a plan known as Remain in Mexico, in which people seeking asylum in the United States wait in dangerous border cities.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Guatemala, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News | 0 |
The Mexican bishops’ migrant ministry has called on the federal government to return to a policy of “open arms” as the country experiences heavy waves of migration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Guatemala, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News | 0 |
The Mexican bishops’ migrant ministry has called on the federal government to return to a policy of “open arms” as the country experiences heavy waves of migration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 3, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Guatemala, Mexico, Mexico bishops, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
The Mexican bishops’ migrant ministry has disavowed a proposal from Mexico’s National Immigration Institute that would establish a camp for migrants and asylum-seekers stuck near the border with Guatemala.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholics and politics, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, faith and politics, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News | 0 |
The Mexican bishops’ conference has pledged to avoid promotion of any parties or candidates in the country’s upcoming midterm elections. The bishops also issued a statement May 6 calling on citizens to vote and support candidates promoting the common good.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Apostolic Nuncio, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Demographics, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News | 0 |
The apostolic nuncio to Mexico urged the country’s bishops to “look reality in the eye” as the country’s non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious.
Read More
Recent Comments