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David Agren

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David Agren writes for Catholic News Service.

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Family and friends attend the funeral of Mayor Carlos Manzo of Uruapan, Mexico, Nov. 2, 2025, who was shot dead the previous evening. Manzo was assassinated Nov. 1 in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said. (OSV News photo/Ivan Arias, Reuters)

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Mexican bishops plead for action after mayor murdered

David Agren|Nov 4, 2025|4 Min Read

Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party, a centrist senator and presidential candidate, speaks onstage in La Paz, Bolivia, during a celebration following preliminary results on the day of the presidential runoff election Oct. 19, 2025. Paz defeated former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga in a presidential runoff, becoming Bolivia's first conservative leader in decades. (OSV News photo/Claudia Morales, Reuters)

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‘Better days are coming,’ say Bolivia bishops after election

David Agren|Oct 22, 2025|4 Min Read

Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, pastor of San Cristóbal Parish in Mezcala, Mexio, is seen in an undated photo. His body was discovered Oct. 6, 2025, in Mezcal in Guerrero state, some 150 miles south of Mexico City, according to the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa. Mezcala is in a region rife with drug cartel activity in what was once considered Mexico's heroin-producing heartland. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa)

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Mexican priest murdered in Guerrero state

David Agren|Oct 8, 2025|3 Min Read

El Salvador

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El Salvador crackdown on gangs causes human rights abuses, report says

David Agren|Dec 8, 2022|4 Min Read

Venezuelan migrants, expelled from the U.S., eat at the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 16, 2022. They were sent back to Mexico under Title 42 as part of a new policy to curb the number of illegal crossings. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

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Catholics work to help Venezuelans expelled to Mexico under Title 42

David Agren|Oct 17, 2022|3 Min Read

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks to supporters in Managua March 21, 2019. Ortega called his nation's Catholic bishops a "gang of murderers" in a Sept. 28, 2022, speech that also insulted a U.S. diplomat. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

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Nicaragua president calls church a dictatorship, bishops 'murderers'

David Agren|Sep 29, 2022|3 Min Read

A demonstrator who is against the proposed new Chilean constitution shouts slogans as he attends a rally called "Long live the countryside" in Santiago, Chile, Aug. 26, 2022. The rally, ahead of the Sept. 4 constitutional referendum, was in defense of rural traditions. (CNS Photo/Ivan Alvarado , Reuters)

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Carmelite nuns' statement on Chilean Constitution vote provokes reaction

David Agren|Aug 30, 2022|4 Min Read

National Police officers keep watch outside a Catholic church where Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa is taking refuge, alleging he had been targeted by the police, in Managua, Nicaragua, in this May 20, 2022, file photo. Bishop Álvarez, who has been critical of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, was arrested by police Aug. 19 and his whereabouts are unknown. (CNS photo/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters)

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In predawn raid, Nicaraguan police move bishop, others to Managua

David Agren|Aug 19, 2022|4 Min Read

A member of the Mexican army stands guard outside a church in the parish community of Cerocahui June 22, 2022. Jesuit Fathers Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar were murdered at the parish June 20 as they offered refuge to a tour guide seeking protection. (CNS photo/Reuters)

24 members of Congress write Biden about Jesuit murders, Mexico violence

David Agren|Aug 5, 2022|3 Min Read

A member of the Missionaries of Charity is pictured in a file photo near an image of St. Teresa of Kolkata during Mass at the cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua. The religious order has been expelled from Nicaragua. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

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Missionaries of Charity kicked out of Nicaragua

David Agren|Jun 29, 2022|2 Min Read

Mexican Jesuits Father Javier Campos Morales and Father Joaquín César Mora Salazar were murdered in their rural parish June, 20, 2022, while providing shelter to an individual fleeing a gunman. (CNS photo/courtesy The Jesuit province in Mexico)

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Two Jesuits murdered defending person in Mexican parish

David Agren|Jun 21, 2022|3 Min Read

Jesuit Father Brian Strassburger blesses a migrant at Mass in Reynosa, Mexico, May 24, 2022. The migrants attending the Mass were waiting at the U.S.-Mexico border for the United States to lift a health provision known as Title 42 and allow them to make asylum claims. (CNS photo/David Agren)

Priests serving migrants in Mexico fret that border restrictions remain

David Agren|May 31, 2022|5 Min Read

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