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Throughout Latin America, Our Lady of Guadalupe is revered with great devotion. Often, the love that people hold for her is the one thing that prevents them from wandering away to the sects, who are everywhere. In Guatemala, in the municipality of Tierra Nueva Dos, the local community is building a new church dedicated to her. The number of Catholics is actually growing in this small municipality, which is plagued by unemployment, violence, and crime. Almost 600 people regularly attend ...

Our Lady’s month of May is also the month of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II, who had a profound devotion to the Mother of God. In Bathore, Albania, there is a parish dedicated to this great pope and saint. Most of the 35,000 people who live in Bathore have migrated here from the mountainous northern regions of the country. Traditionally, the girls marry young and become homemakers, while many of the young men tend to drop out ...

Azza Al-Bittar, 42, lives together with her husband and her son in Homs, where the war began in 2011. She tells us, “My faith was born and grew in a wounded country. I lived through the civil war, with all its devastation and instability. Then the pandemic struck, raising a great question mark over our life and death. And in 2023, as though we had not already suffered enough, the earthquake shook the ground beneath our feet.” But then she ...

In the year 2000, the then-Bishop of Mukatshevo invited the Franciscan Capuchins to come to Uzhhorod, Ukraine to assume the pastoral ministry in a post-Soviet township with some 15,000 inhabitants. There was no shortage of problems – unemployment, broken families, young people without future prospects, and a high crime rate. The Capuchin Fathers rolled up their sleeves and set to work. Currently, there are three Capuchin Fathers of the Eastern rite, who live in the center that was funded for ...