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Priest says migrants in northern Mexico are being kidnapped on a constant basis

January 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 5, 2024 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Father Francisco Gallardo López, who heads migrant ministry for the Diocese of Matamoros located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, decried the fact that migrants are b… […]

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Young people to make pilgrimage to Christ the King shrine for religious freedom in Mexico

January 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Participants in the 2023 National Youth Pilgrimage to the Christ the King statue high atop Cubilete in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. / Credit: Isaacvp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons… […]

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Meet the Franciscan friar who baptized St. Juan Diego

December 9, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A painting of Franciscan missionary Pedro de Gante with Juan Diego, whom the friar baptized along with Diego’s wife in 1525. / Credit:

CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Many are familiar with the story of St. Juan Diego, whose feast is c… […]

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Mexican exorcist warns against ‘vampires’ that can draw you away from God during Advent

December 5, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 5, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
Father Eduardo Hayen, an exorcist of the Mexican Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, offered a reflection for the first week of Advent, warning about the “vampires” th… […]

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Mexican bishop: thief who stole Eucharist is excommunicated

December 4, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Saltillo in the Mexican border state of Coahuila, Hilario González García, has announced the automatic excommunication (“latae sententiae”) o… […]

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Constant thefts in churches plague Mexican archdiocese

November 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Cathedral of San Luis Potosí in Mexico. / Credit: Saher via Wiki Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 30, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí expressed its concern about the constant wave of thefts that is plaguing churches i… […]

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Archbishop justifies LGBT flags on coffins in Mexican cathedral

November 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Coffins with the LGBT flag in Aguascalientes cathedral in Mexico. / Credit: María Miranda Franco/Metropolitano Aguascalientes

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 17, 2023 / 19:00 pm (CNA).
The vice president of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Gus… […]

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FACT CHECK: Did an Our Lady of Sorrows statue in Mexico really shed tears?

November 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
Claim: Local Mexican media reported that a 9-year-old boy was the first to see the supposed tears flowing from the eyes of a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows in a ch… […]

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Bishops call for solidarity in wake of devastation from hurricanes in Mexico

October 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

A shopping mall is destroyed after hurricane Otis hit Acapulco on Oct. 25, 2023 in Acapulco, Mexico. Otis made landfall through the coast of Acapulco around midnight of Oct. 25 as a category 5 storm. / Credit: Oscar Guerrero Ramirez/Getty Image
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Church in Mexico announces plan to accompany mothers of disappeared persons

August 2, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Francisco Javier Acero with the mothers of the disappeared and priests. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Bishop Acero

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 2, 2023 / 07:30 am (CNA).
Faced with the lamentable growing wave of disappeared persons in Mexico and … […]

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