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Argentine ‘slum priest’ and COVID victim hailed as ‘martyr for the poor’

by | Aug 31, 2020 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Father Basilicio “Bachi” Britez, 52 at the time of his death, had suffered from kidney problems, hypertension and diabetes, so when the COVID-19 pandemic began to surge in Argentina, he was advised to leave the shantytown where he lived. Britez refused, insisting he couldn’t abandon the people he’d been entrusted to protect in La Matanza, one of the poor areas that make up Buenos Aires’ industrial belts.

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Argentina’s slum priests say after COVID-19, pandemic of hunger, poverty will remain

by | Apr 25, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Argentina’s slum priests are working to prepare their people for COVID-19, but they say the “pandemic” of poverty, hunger, and drug abuse existed before the coronavirus, and will still be in the slums when the current crisis is over.

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On outskirts of Buenos Aires, parishes mobilize for COVID-19

by | Apr 5, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

The soup kitchen at Father Nicolas Angelotti’s parish in the rough outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was feeding 1,500 residents daily in recent months, with demand driven by a weak economy and unemployment. But the demand more than doubled to 4,000 people per day after a coronavirus quarantine was imposed March 20

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