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Ecuadorian Catholics negotiate and pray during prison riot crisis

January 16, 2024

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – One week after a drug lord escaped from prison and detonated an unprecedented crisis of violence in Ecuador, local Catholics are trying to address the atmosphere of insecurity that lingers over the South American country, with businesses closed and a nationwide curfew. Catholics in the Latin Anerican nation, who make up

Mary, Mariana and Moreno: Catholic mysticism in the Ecuadorian mountains

April 11, 2023

There’s a rugged patch of the high Latin American Andes which is an enigmatic treat, steeped in Catholic mystery, fables, prophecy and art. Yet the Conceptionist convent on the beautiful streets of Quito, Ecuador, remains an unfamiliar pilgrimage destination across much of the Anglosphere. It is central to the story of Mother Mariana, a woman

Ecuador’s Church struggles to bring humanity to the country’s prisons after brutal riots

December 06, 2021

After riots in a Guayaquil penitentiary left 119 dead on September 28 and 62 dead on November 12, activists of the local Prison Pastoral Ministry have been warning that new rebellions, equally lethal, may happen again in the near future. The city’s largest prison, known as Litoral (Coastal) Penitentiary, has been the stage for brutal disputes between

Ecuadorian bishops circle wagons after resignation of Riobamba bishop, coadjutor

May 03, 2021

Eduardo Campos Limareports that the bishop at the centre of the controversy says he is leaving Ecuador and returning to his native Spain with clear conscience.

Sheer folly or an inspiring tale of martyrdom?

February 13, 2020

God in the Rainforest By Kathryn T Long OUP, 446pp, £22.99/$34.95 In the mid-1950s, no fewer than 23,000 North American Protestants were whizzing – sometimes trudging – around the world’s mission fields. An isolated spot, inhabited by people who had probably never seen a Westerner, and who spoke a particularly tricky language, was regarded by

Pope Francis victim of fake news after reports claim he changed Ten Commandments

March 14, 2017

The story claimed Francis made the announcement in Ecuador in 2015

Nun who died in Ecuador earthquake had ‘special gift for reaching out to children’

April 20, 2016

Sister Clare Maria Crockett, from Northern Ireland, was teaching children to play guitar when the earthquake struck

Pope: job of priests and religious is to serve ‘even when we are fed up with people’

July 09, 2015

At Ecuador's national Marian shrine Pope Francis urges clergy: 'Do not deny your roots'