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by bcadmin | Nov 7, 2022 | Americas, Catholic news, Drug trafficking, Drug violence, Ecuador, News, News Briefs | 0 |
Members of the National Police prepare before going out to patrol the streets of Duran, city neighbouring Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Nov. 5, 2022. Special police forces continued on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 to transfer imprisoned criminal gang leaders who …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug violence, Gang violence, Mexico, News | 0 |
Local crime bosses were the first to greet Bishop Salvador Rangel Mendoza when he arrived in the oft-violent Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa for his 2015 installation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug violence, Gang violence, Mexico, News | 0 |
Father Gregorio López, a Catholic priest once known for wearing a flak vest while celebrating Mass, said drug cartels now essentially control parts of Michoacan state in Mexico.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 14, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug violence, Mexico, News | 0 |
Even for the violence-wracked Mexican state of Michoacan, it was surprising when a priest called from the pulpit for parishioners to arm themselves against warring drug gangs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug violence, Mexico, News | 0 |
Mexicans angry as army refuses to combat cartels.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2021 | Addiction, Brazil, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Drug trafficking, Drug violence, Gang violence, lead, News, Paraguay | 0 |
A surge in violence – much of it related to drug trafficking – is hitting the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Drug violence, El Salvador, Gang violence, migrants and refugees, News, San Fernando massacre | 0 |
A group of migrants headed north had been shot to death by the Mexican cartel known as Los Zetas Aug. 24, 2010.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Colombian bishops, Drug cartels, Drug trafficking, Drug violence, News | 0 |
The bishop of a Colombian city that is suffering from a deadly spike in drug violence boarded a firetruck to spray the town’s main street with holy water and help to “cleanse it” of evil.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug violence, Mafia, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News, organized crime | 0 |
No sooner had federal forces arrested José Antonio Yépez Ortiz — a crime boss known as “El Marro,” or the sledgehammer — than stories surfaced of his supposed generosity with the Catholic Church and devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2020 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Drug violence, Drugs, Louisiana, Netflix, New Orleans, News, opioids | 0 |
Dan Schneider’s 20-year mission to secure a resolution to his 22-year-old son’s murder and to protect young people like him has been transformed into a riveting Netflix documentary series titled simply, “The Pharmacist.”
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