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by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | Associated Press, Christian Aid, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Missionaries, News | 0 |
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against seven Haitian gang leaders for the kidnappings of numerous U.S. citizens, including Christian missionaries and children.
Read Moreby 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 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic missionaries, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the Americas, Haiti, News | 0 |
A year after 17 North American missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti, the agency that sent them hasn’t made a permanent return, and several other international groups have also scaled back their work there.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 18, 2022 | Brazil, Cardinals, Europe, Haiti, Italy, lead, Mexico, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis | 0 |
Of the 11 cardinals who will lose voting privileges over the next year, all are appointees of either John Paul II or Benedict XVI. Of the 120 cardinals eligible, 82 will have been appointed by Francis, 68.4 percent, above the two-thirds threshold.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Haiti, mission, News, Tennessee | 0 |
The board of directors of the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas announced that David Siler is the organization’s new executive director.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Haiti, News, United Nations | 0 |
Religious orders working in Haiti have called on the international community to directly intervene to address the reign of terror of armed gangs they described as “diabolical, frightening and unacceptable.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 28, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in Africa, Church in the Americas, Haiti, lead, Mexico, News, Nigeria, Pope Francis | 0 |
The past seven days were amongst the deadliest for Catholic priests and religious in recent years, with one violent murder every 33 hours.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 27, 2022 | Angelus, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Ecuador, Haiti, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis praised the life and work of Sister Luisa Dell’Orto, an Italian missionary who was killed in Haiti, and hailed her as a martyr.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Archdiocese of Miami, Assassinations, Church in the Americas, Earthquake, Haiti, lead, News, USCCB | 0 |
In about two months time the one year anniversary of an earthquake and presidential assassination in Hati will have passed, yet the state of the nation appears to be worse, or as Archbishop Thomas Wenski describes: “As bad as it’s ever been.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 26, 2022 | Catholic Church, Haiti, lead, News, News Analysis | 0 |
Philip Jenkins, among the most astute observers of the contemporary Christian scene, published a piece noting that for better or worse, basically the only social institution keeping Haiti afloat these days is the Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2022 | Asylum, Asylum seekers, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Haiti, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
A Mexican border diocese has issued an urgent appeal for assistance as hundreds of Haitian migrants arrive in the oft-violent city of Nuevo Laredo, hoping to apply for asylum in the United States.
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.
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