Deacon: Amid Puerto Rico’s long road to recovery, its people are resilient
Deacon Asterio Velasco, director of Hispanic ministry for the Newark Archdiocese, is concerned about Puerto Rico.
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by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Hurricane, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Deacon Asterio Velasco, director of Hispanic ministry for the Newark Archdiocese, is concerned about Puerto Rico.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | Hurricane Fiona, News, Puerto Rico, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Deacon Asterio Velasco, director of Hispanic ministry for the Newark Archdiocese, is concerned about Puerto Rico.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 22, 2022 | Archbishop Roberto González Nieves, Caribbean, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of San Jose, Dominican Republic, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Puerto Rico’s archbishop said he has not been in contact with all his priests since Hurricane Fiona knocked out power to the island, and he expressed concern for the hurricane’s impact on the southern and western parts of the island.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Archbishop Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, Bermuda, Bishop Rubén Antonio González Medina, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Featured, From the Pope, Hurricane Fiona, News, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos | 0 |
As Hurricane Fiona swept across the Caribbean, leaving behind numerous victims and material destruction, Pope Francis called for greater solidarity in assisting all those affected.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Caribbean, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News, Pope Francis, Puerto Rico | 0 |
As Hurricane Fiona swept across the Caribbean, leaving behind numerous victims and material destruction, Pope Francis called for greater solidarity in assisting all those affected.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, lead, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Watching the news and looking outside from his parents home in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Father Enrique Camacho can’t fathom how almost five years to the day of Hurricane Maria the island is once again devastated, this time courtesy of Hurricane Fiona.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Caritas Internationalis, Church in the US, Congress, Economic crisis, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, Poverty, President Joe Biden, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Advocates are skeptical that a recently announced fall meeting between the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments on the Caribbean nation’s economic future will actually have any impact.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 23, 2022 | Biden Administration, Caritas, Church in the US, lead, News, Puerto Rico, SCOTUS, U.S. Congress | 0 |
Fr. Enrique Camacho, the director of Caritas Puerto Rico, said he was both surprised and greatly saddened by the Supreme Court’s decision denying to mandate Congress extend federal disability benefits to residents of Puerto Rico.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | Archbishop Roberto González Nieves, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Jubilee USA Network, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Religious leaders in Puerto Rico have welcomed a debt restructuring plan that will reduce the stress on the U.S. territory’s economy and called for more focused efforts to reduce poverty and prioritize economic development. “Puerto Rico has now the opportunity for a path forward, and to forge a comprehensive strategy […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pope Francis, Puerto Rico | 0 |
At noon Rome time, the Vatican announced, with no explanation given, that Pope Francis “had relieved” Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres “from the pastoral care” of the Diocese of Arecibo, in Puerto Rico.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said Catholic communities on Puerto Rico are feeling dispirited by the lack of recovery more than four years after a pair of hurricanes destroyed schools, homes, businesses and churches.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Blessed Mother, California, Catholic Extension, Marian Devotions, Mary, Month of Mary, News, Prayer Marathon, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, U.S. & World News, U.S. mission dioceses | 0 |
A special video series developed by Catholic Extension for the “Month of Mary” has highlighted throughout May the many ways Catholics of the Americas honor Mary in their native languages and culture customs.
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