The Voice of the suffering in Latin America
Here you’ll find the latest updates on the struggles and resilience of persecuted communities around the world. These stories highlight both the challenges they endure and the faith that sustains them. Stay connected to learn how hope continues to shine through suffering.
A brutal battle against COVID-19 in Brazil
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“The biggest difficulties are the sheer distances and the problem of access to the hospitals equipped for helping the most severely ill."
Catholics call for renewal of communist Cuba
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“This people, many years ago, turned its back on God, and when a people turns its back on God, it cannot walk.”
In Venezuela, a bishop’s last plea for peace and justice
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“This year the embrace of God is more powerful than ever for all the children of this land, orphaned of embraces. His weeping was the announcement of peace and the passage from suffering to glory … God with us and us with God.”
Brazil: ‘your donations are saving lives’
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"These children, who have never been allowed to be loved as ‘sons or daughters,’ need first of all to be able to live the experience of being loved before they themselves can begin to love.”
Venezuelan diocese mourns drowning victims
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"Sadly, we cannot stop the practice, and as a result many families from here, from our diocese and from Venezuela generally, are left mourning their loved ones.”
Arson and vandalism: targeting churches in Santiago, Chile
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"The irrationality and hatred that we are witnessing is an attack on a fundamental human right to religious liberty. Such violence should have no place in a society that claims to be democratic.”
