Word: catholicization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abortion on demand, even in the first trimester of a pregnancy, is still illegal in all but three small countries in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America (Cuba, Guyana and Barbados). In fact, abortion prohibitions in some countries there have gotten stricter - even in Nicaragua, where the former Marxist revolutionary Daniel...
The Mexican capital's Assembly is controlled by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), whose candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, barely lost last year's presidential election to conservative President Felipe Calderon. But the measure's proponents are betting that if it passes in Mexico City, similar initiatives will gather...
That even leftist leaders like Vasquez oppose abortion legalization confuses many in developed regions like North America and Europe. But it's not too surprising given the deeply Catholic (and increasingly Evangelical) cultural context of Latin America. Abortion is simply one issue on which many leftists feel they'd rather...
For its part, the Church accuses pro-choice advocates like Mexico City's PRD assembly members of tricking Latin Americans into thinking that abortion is solely a public health matter and not a moral one. Mexico's leading Catholic cleric, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, recently told hundreds of pro-life Mexicans...
When Vietnam granted rare access to the trial of prominent dissidents, it may not have expected to produce the sight of communist officials slapping their hands over the mouth of a 60-year-old man - a Catholic priest, no less - and wrestling him out of the courtroom. But that is...