Mexico City
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Mexican bishops: Most churches damaged in September quakes were historic
By DAVID AGREN, Catholic News Service
Published January 31, 2018MEXICO CITY (CNS)—A report from the Mexican bishops’ conference has catalogued 1,850 damaged churches—including 17 cathedrals—due to the twin earthquakes that shook the country in September. The report, released Jan. 29, found that 1,603 of damaged churches were cataloged as “historic” buildings. Some 220 churches remain closed, while 38 places of worship collapsed. Churches in […] Full Story | En Español
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Mexicans give thanks for quake survival to St. Jude Thaddeus
By DAVID AGREN, Catholic News Service
Published October 6, 2017MEXICO CITY (CNS)—Teresa Hernandez considers it a miracle. Her uncle and nephew were trapped under the rubble of an apartment building in northern Mexico City after the Sept. 19 earthquake and managed to get out. On Sept. 28, she brought a small statue of St. Jude Thaddeus to celebrations at historic St. Hippolytus Church to […] Full Story | En Español
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Pope Francis tells Mexican bishops be unified, speak out on tough issues
By DAVID AGREN, Catholic News Service
Published February 19, 2016MEXICO CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis demanded forceful denunciations of drug violence in Mexico from the country’s bishops, who have preferred timid pronouncements instead of speaking prophetically on a tragedy that has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past 10 years and left another 25,000 Mexicans missing. Speaking Feb. 13 to an audience of bishops in […]
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Inspiration, Intercessor: Mary Beloved In Latin America
By DAVID AGREN, CNS
Published May 23, 2013MEXICO CITY (CNS)—May is the month of Mary, who is celebrated the length of Latin America as someone more than the mother of God—or even a religious figure. Mary is associated with everything from national identity in Mexico to the mother earth in Chile to the national patroness of many of the countries in between. […]