es http://www.alcnoticias.org/ Information and analysis about the social-ecclesial reality, development and human rights in Latin America and other regions of the world englisheditor@alcnoticias.org http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16872_688 The Latin America and Caribbean Communication Agency – ALC, asks it readers to kindly take note that, as of today, we are migrating to the domain: alcnoticias.net. We apologize for any inconvenience caused during this process. 2010-05-14 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16856_688 The Yad Vashem Institute of Israel has named Salvadoran José Arturo Castellano as “Righteous Among the Nations," in recognition of his heroic humanitarian work in the rescuing of more than 30 thousand people from the Nazi persecution between1942 and 1945, according to his granddaughter Ivonne Jaimes, in speaking with ALC. 2010-05-13 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16837_688 The current Latin American reality poses multiple challenges and opportunities to the Protestant churches, which try faithfully to carry out their transforming mission and evangelism task in the midst of the people. 2010-05-12 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16842_688 Under the supposed camouflage of other causes, the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras has expelled four judges and a public defender, who were awaiting disciplinary processes, after their having criticized the coup d'etat of June 28. 2010-05-12 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16830_688 A tragic accident has brought mourning to the Bolivian Methodist family. Pastor Germán Alanoca and Youth Minister Hugo Jamillo, were killed last May 7 in a car accident when travelling with other delegates to the town of Ancoraimes, where the youth leagues of the Bolivian Evangelical Methodist Church (IEMB) were holding a leaders training workshop. 2010-05-11 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16828_688 The Mexican Catholic Church paid tribute yesterday to the mothers who live out their maternity with dignity, when Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during Sunday mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the capital city, that it is lamentable that some women have lost the value of the dignity of their maternity, "becoming their own children's murderers," when recurring to the practice of abortion. 2010-05-11 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16829_688 The Campaign of Ecumenical Fraternity is one of those initiatives that "represents an effective contribution in the sense of overcoming - and curing - wounds still open in the divisions within Christ's Church,” according to the President of the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (Conic), Synod Pastor Carlos Möller. 2010-05-11 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16815_688 Pentecostalism will tend to not grow in the future, at the same rate it has experienced during the first century of its presence in Brazil, where it represented 30% of the population of the country, says Brazilian sociologist Ricardo Mariano. 2010-05-08 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16812_688 Father Manuel Ruiz, Executive Director of the Pastoral Ministry for Life of the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic, denied on Wednesday, May 5 to have distributed a list with the purpose of having parishioners vote against the Legislative Representatives who oppose the penalizing of abortion. 2010-05-08 http://www.alcnoticias.org/interior.php?codigo_lang=16811_688 The Colombian Platform for Human rights, Democracy and Development has made known the three most serious problems of the Alternative Report on Economic Rights that was released this week in Geneva and Bogotá: Malnutrition, deficiencies in health care and a precarious labor situation. 2010-05-07