Vanishing in the Wild, These Salamanders Found Refuge in a Convent
Source: The New York Times By Geoffrey Giller PÁTZCUARO, MEXICO — Atop the highest hill in this lakeside town sits the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Salud, built in […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Presence is the largest.
Source: Samad Ghori of Albania One of the Muslim groups with a large presence in the state of Chiapas is the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Ibrahim Chechev, an imam from San Cristóbal, told Sputnik of the community’s origin and prospects. Today the Ahmadiyya community is made up of 60 families and […]
Islam on Lands of Ancient Maya: Closer Look at Muslim Community in Mexico
Source: Sputnik International Few would be surprised at seeing a girl wearing a hijab in Mexico’s San Cristóbal, as for more than 20 years there have been Muslim communities living […]
Mexico election: why is the leftwing frontrunner so quiet on social issues?
Source: The Guardian By David Agren in Mexico City In both of Mexico’s last two presidential elections, Julieta Brambila voted for Andrés Manuel López Obrador because she supported his plans to tackle corruption, curb […]
Entire police force of Mexico town detained after mayoral candidate’s assassination
Source: CNN By Emanuella Grinberg and Fidel Gutierrez The entire police force of a Mexican town in the state of Michoacán is being questioned in the assassination of a mayoral candidate, the […]
US border agents halt migrant family prosecutions
Source: BBC News A US border security chief says he has temporarily stopped launching criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally enter the country with children. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) […]
US border agents halt migrant family prosecutions
Source: BBC News Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters in Texas the prosecution referrals were suspended last week. He said it followed an order last week […]
Muted reaction by ‘pro-family’ groups to family separations
Source: Associated Press By DAVID CRARY Even as many religious organizations, from liberal to conservative, denounced the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, some major […]
‘What This Amounts to Is Child Abuse.’ Psychologists Warn Against Separating Kids From Their Parents
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME For more, visit TIME Health. As the White House doubles down on a zero-tolerance immigration policy that has led to the forced separation of families, medical experts are sounding alarms about […]
Toddlers Separated From Parents at the Border Are Being Detained in ‘Tender Age’ Shelters
Source: Time By GARANCE BURKE & MARTHA MENDOZA / AP June 20, 2018 Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the […]
Thousands of Migrant Children Are Being Separated From Their Families at the Border. Here’s How to Help Them
Source: Time By Alix Langone Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy on border […]
Sessions at odds with his church on immigrants
Source: Baltimore Sun By Dan RodricksContact Reporter The Baltimore Sun Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears determined to inflict as much pain as possible in his efforts to deter immigrants from gaining entrance […]
Parents Are Facing a Nightmare at the U.S. Border
Source: Time By HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS June 14, 2018 Earlier this year, a young Honduran woman named Mirian gathered her 18-month-old son into her arms and walked across the bridge between […]
Supporters of El Salvador’s Abortion Ban Foil Efforts to Soften It
Source: The New York Times By ELISABETH MALKIN Demonstrators participated in a march against abortion in San Salvador earlier this month.CreditFred Ramos for The New York Times MEXICO CITY — El Salvador’s national legislature adjourned Thursday without voting on proposals to allow exceptions to the country’s total ban on abortion, thwarting […]
3rd priest in a week found dead in Mexico
Source: Associated Press By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who had been reported kidnapped has been found dead in central Mexico, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors […]
Christ was the first exorcist’: priest reports rising demand for the ritual
Source: The Guardian BY Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Mexican priest who is teaching the ancient rite in Rome says it still has a place in the modern Catholic church Father Cesar Truqui. […]
Building A Latino-Muslim Coalition With #TacoTrucksAtEveryMosque
Source: NPR BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO The connection between Middle Eastern and Mexican food goes all the way back to the Moors, and is well-known in culinary circles. Al pastor tacos are […]
How a Mormon lawyer transformed archaeology in Mexico—and ended up losing his faith
Source: Science By Lizzie Wade Jan. 18, 2018 , 10:45 AM Thomas Stuart Ferguson lay in his hammock, certain that he had found the promised land. It had been raining for […]
In Mexico City, pleasantries help keep the city afloat
Source: BBC News By Megan Frye 27 November 2017 I’d lived in Mexico City for about six months before witnessing somebody get visibly angry in public. And it wasn’t a […]
Mexico’s indigenous Muslims in Maya heartland
Reuters International This content was published on October 25, 2017 Umar, 64, a Muslim from the Tzotzil Maya ethnic group, speaks with Evangelical worshippers in a meeting between members […]
