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1 month ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |David Adams
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on how Mexico City’s Catholic cathedral is positioning itself as “a space in which we can praise God and convey the taste for good music”…Mexico City, MexicoAPAfter six decades of devotion to the organ, Maestro Leo Krämer treats the instrument like an extension of himself. He doesn’t even need to lay hands on it to hear in his mind how a song will sound. “That’s why it’s called an organ,” Krämer said.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |David Adams
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on the ongoing quest to find the victims of 50 years of armed conflict in the South American nation…Cali, ColombiaAPFrom time-to-time, Gustavo Arbeláez faces relatives whose losses were caused by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the powerful guerrilla group he was part of during Colombia’s five decade armed conflict. Tears in their eyes, victims name their loved ones and reprimand him: They had dreams and now they’re gone.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
dailyrecordnews.com | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |Maria Hernandez
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) - The first bite is an assault to the senses. A sugary, citric, fluffy delight. "Pan de muerto" or "bread of the dead" is baked in Mexico every year, from early October to mid-November, amid Day of the Dead celebrations. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |David Adams
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on the work of Uniendo Esperanzas or Uniting Hope…Mexico City, MexicoAPEach time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son, Diego Maximiliano.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Salvador Melendez |Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |David Adams
San Salvador, El Salvador APIt’s as if Joyce Valencia could still hear Saint Oscar Romero’s voice. “I met him when I was a little girl,” the 61-year-old Salvadoran said. “We used to gather around our radio with our grandma to listen to him. And, even now, listening to him encourages us to move forward.”A religious procession honours Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Thursday, 1st August, 2024. Romero was assassinated on on 24th March, 1980, while celebrating Mass.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |David Adams
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on religious landscape in the South American country…APThe majority of Venezuelans are religious – just like parts of the country’s political history. But as they prepare for the upcoming presidential election, it’s hard to say exactly how religious Venezuelans are and what specifically they believe. The government has not released official figures in more than a decade.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
dailyrecordnews.com | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández |Maria Hernandez
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) - Frida Kahlo had no religious affiliation. Why, then, did the Mexican artist depict several religious symbols in the paintings she produced until her death on July 13, 1954? "Frida conveyed the power of each individual," said art researcher and curator Ximena Jordán. "Her self-portraits are a reminder of the ways in which we can exercise the power that life - or God, so to speak - has given us."Copyright 2024 The Associated Press.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
metro.us | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of his new technology — the movable-type printing press — by producing an unprecedented version of the Scripture for wealthy customers who could interpret Latin: leaders of the Catholic Church.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
metro.us | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the Revs. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and Joaquín César Mora Salazar, 80, were murdered by a local gang leader — has not faded. Nor their quest for peace.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
metro.us | Maria Hernandez |María Hernández
CHIHUAHUA, México (AP) — Miguel Lara was born to run. It’s in his blood, his people’s history and tied to the land he calls “home.”“That’s what we do,” said the 34-year-old ultramarathoner near his cabin in Porochi, an Indigenous community in the remote Tarahumara mountains of northern Mexico. “Tarahumara means ‘the light-footed,’” Lara said.
