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Pope advances sainthood causes of missionary priest and martyred nun Father Mariano Gazpio of the Order of Augustinian Recollects served in China as a missionary Updated: May 24, 2021 02:25 PM GMT Trending Father Mariano Gazpio had great devotion to the Eucharist, the Sacred Heart and the Virgin Mary. (Photo: Augustinian Recollects) Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood causes of seven people, including a Spanish missionary priest to China and a Peruvian nun who was murdered by Maoist guerr...

The massacre took place just two weeks before a polarised second-round ballot between three-time candidate Fujimori, the daughter of the jailed 1990s strongman Alberto Fujimori, and the leftist teacher Pedro Castillo, whose party Perú Libre is accused of containing MPs with links to Shining Path and the rival rebel group MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Army) which both battled the state in a conflict that killed more than 69,000 in the 1980s and 90s. Peruvians remain bitterly divided over the ...

Photo: ANDINA 13:43 | Lima, May. 24. General Commander of the National Police Cesar Cervantes on Monday confirmed the death of 18 people in a population center in Vizcatan Province, located in the Valley of Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers (VRAEM) area, which was allegedly caused by remnants of the terrorist organization known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). "According to pamphlets found (in the area), which have been read and analyzed by agents of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate (Dircote),...

Artist publishes 100 drawings from Perus COVID-19 pandemic FRANKLIN BRICEÑO, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Edilberto Jimenez poses with one of his drawings at his home in San Juan de Lurigancho, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Jimenez compiled in a book his interpretation of the sufferings that Peruvians have endured during the COVID pandemic that has caused a deepening economic crisis and has killed more than 66,000 people in the Andean count...

Peruvian cartoonist Edilberto Jimenez grew inspired by COVID-19 victims and the difficulties they face in getting healthcare, turning it into 100 sketches portraying the pandemic in Peru.

In a new book, a Peruvian artist publishes 100 drawings documenting the country's COVID-19 crisis

Peru’s authoritarian past is a cautionary tale for El Salvador’s future.

Celebrities look to sway undecided voters ahead of Peru presidential runoff 2 minutes read By Fernando Gimeno Lima, May 20 (EFE).- From soccer stars like Jefferson Farfan to Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian celebrities are reaching out to undecided voters ahead of a June 6 presidential runoff that pits a pair of candidates on opposite ends of the political spectrum. With leftist Pedro Castillo and right-wing Keiko Fujimori each rejected by much of the voting public and ...

Images of Tupac Amaru and wife Micaela Bastidas are displayed at the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion museum in Lima, Peru. Photo: AP Roads and schools in Peru carry the name of Túpac Amaru. A framed depiction of him - stern gaze, flowing hair, wide-brimmed hat - hangs in the government palace in Lima. He inspired a comic book superhero, Tupaqman. A historical drama series to be released this year explores his life. The muleteer and trader who claimed descent from Inca royals, l...

Lima, Peru – Maria Elena Carbajal still vividly recalls the doctor’s chilling response when, from her hospital bed, she asked repeatedly to see her newborn son, Francisco. “Once you have the procedure, you can see him,” the mother of four said the doctor told her, before asking: “You’re thinking of having more kids, like guinea pigs?” It was September 18, 1996, at Maria Auxiliadora Hospital in the Peruvian capital, Lima – and Carbajal, then 26, had given birth around 4am. Within...