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A Host-Baking Machine for Carmelite Sisters in Peru
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The Convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Abancay, in southern central Peru, was initially established in 1964 with seven religious from Cusco. Today, the community ...
Help for a Popular Mission in Southern Cuba
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For some 18 years, now a team of lay missionaries have been traveling, Sunday after Sunday, into the remote villages of Guamà II, a suburb ...
A Catholic Calendar for the Faithful in Cuba
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Each year, thanks to the help of ACN, the Cuban bishops’ conference is able to publish a Catholic liturgical and catechetical calendar for the faithful, ...
An Automobile to Help Capuchin Fathers in Brazil
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The three Franciscan Capuchin Fathers in the Parish of Saint Francis of Assisi in Humaità are delighted with their new vehicle and profoundly grateful to ...
Ongoing Training of Catechists in a Vast Parish in Peru
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The Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos lies deep in the jungle of the Peruvian Amazon region. Even getting to the capital involves having to travel by ...
In Venezuela, with medicines lacking or too costly, a doctor laments: ‘We are simply watching people die’
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In her moving account, the doctor describes how, after cleaning up the wound, she went looking for the little girl’s father to explain to him ...
Church questions Cuba’s new constitution
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The inclusion of the statement that “the Cuban state is a secular state” (Article 15) suggests an acknowledgment of the “right of the individual to ...
Venezuelan Church condemns regime’s political repression, human rights violations
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The statement denounces “the growing, politically motivated repression, the violation of human rights and the selective and arbitrary detentions” of individuals; the statement calls for ...
For World Youth Day, Panama Church wants to reveal country’s true face
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"It will be necessary to maintain the dynamism of World Youth Day, to continue the work, because there is a tendency in Panama to rely ...
In Cuba, a family finds new life, fulfilment in the Church
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“At that time, all I had was my family, my farm and my hogs, and I was fine with that. But deep inside, there was ...
