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August 30, 2024

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With Beauty All Around Me, I Walk

August 30, 2024

A Navajo (Dine) blessing prayer affirms, “With beauty all around me, I walk.” We can experience beauty wherever we are.

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Police officers stand near the burned wreckage of a bus Aug. 9, 2022, that was set on fire by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel following the detention of one of its leaders by Mexican federal forces in Zapopan in the Mexican state of Jalisco. (OSV News photo/Fernando Carranza, Reuters)

Guatemala cardinal: Drug cartels wield ‘total power’ on border with Mexico

August 30, 2024
Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, has warned that drug cartels control the border between Mexico and Guatemala, provoking spasms of violence which have sent hundreds of Mexicans fleeing into his diocese.
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