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by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Gang violence, Haiti, News | 0 |
The profound political and humanitarian crisis in Haiti has had a disproportionate impact on women and girls, say organizations representing refugees, female merchants, women, as well as the United Nations and the human rights sector.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Gang violence, Gun violence, Mexico, News | 0 |
Mexico’s Catholic Church has suspended a controversial priest who has advised parishioners to carry guns to fight off drug cartels.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas, Associated Press, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Gang violence, News | 0 |
The Catholic archbishop of San Salvador said Sunday that most people support a months-long state of emergency that has rounded of tens of thousands of suspects in a crackdown on violent street gangs.
Read Moreby 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 | 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 | Apr 19, 2022 | Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas, Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Gang violence, News | 0 |
12,000 Salvadorans have been detained by the government since March 27, the day legislators approved an emergency law that made detentions in the Central American country easier.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Gang violence, Haiti, News | 0 |
The third bishop of Haiti’s Jérémie Diocese must be the only Catholic bishop in the world whose cathedral roof has collapsed twice in earthquakes and was ripped off once by a Category 4 hurricane.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Gang violence, Mexico, News | 0 |
A priest involved with social and environmental causes in southern Mexico was threatened by gangs, the latest in a wave of increasing violence gripping the communities served by the Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Gang violence, Illinois, News | 0 |
Under penalty of a beating or death, Erik Eck pledged at age 13 to adhere to the Latin Kings’ first rule: “Once a King, always a King.” Tattoos that bedeck his entire body express his fealty forever to one of the largest gangs in the U.S.
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 15, 2022 | Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Gang violence, lead, News | 0 |
On February 10, the Salvador’s National Civil Police (NCP) revealed that 65 cases of missing persons have been reported so far in 2022.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, drug abuse, Drug trafficking, Gang violence, lead, News, Rosario, slum priests | 0 |
Father Fabian Belay says the main problem with Argentina’s third largest city, Rosario, is that an estimated half of the citizens live in slums.
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