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Human rights advocate Sister Dianna Ortiz dies after brief illness Feb 20, 2021 catholic news service Sister Dianna Ortiz, a member of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph, who was Pax Christi USA's deputy director, is seen in this 2012 photo. Sister Ortiz died Feb. 19, 2021, in Washington at age 62. (Credit: CNS screen grab/Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph.) Sister Dianna Ortiz became a human rights advocate and peacemaker, starting an organization for torture survivors and becoming a visible presence of nonviolence at vigils and marches in the nation's capital. CLEVELAND — Ursulin...

Dianna Ortiz, nun who told of brutal abduction by Guatemalan military, dies at 62 By Ryan Di Corpo The Washington Post,Updated February 20, 2021, 4:25 p.m. Email to a Friend Dianna Ortiz, author of "The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey From Torture to Truth," has died of cancer at 62.Juana Arias/The Washington Post Dianna Ortiz, a slight Catholic nun from New Mexico, arrived in Guatemala in 1987 against a backdrop of devastating violence: a decades-long civil war, pitting Marxist guerrillas against the U.S.-backed military, that would ultimately claim 200,000 lives. But as a member of the Ursulin...

Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62 She became a champion of survivors of torture and helped compel the release of documents showing U.S. complicity in decades of human rights abuses in Guatemala. Sister Dianna Ortiz in 1996. After being raped and tortured in Guatemala, she helped focus attention on the 200,000 people who were killed or disappeared during that country’s 36-year civil war.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Dianna Ortiz, an American Roman Catholic nun whose rape and torture in Guatemala in 1989 helped lead to the release of documents showing ...

Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, is pictured in an undated photo holding her her godchild at the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The baby's birth, like most births at the camp, posed a risk to the mother and baby, as medical attention is not a given. (CNS photo/courtesy Sister Norma Pimentel) Feb. 18. 2021 Catholic News Service At the Gateway International Bridge that links Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, a group of volunteers and Catholic sisters pull portable carts with diapers, tents, fo...