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Lake Chapala religious services
All Saints Lutheran Church Worship Service 10:30 a.m 4600 Avenida Tepeyac, Guad. Tel. (013)121-67-41 Church of Jesus Christ of...
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The five faces of God - and where to find them
They are known as the missions of the Sierra Gorda. There are others he constructed, to be sure; the California missions are f...
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Walking the walk, talking the talk - Fiesta de Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta
Felipe Avila handed me his burning candle, converting me from spectator to pilgrim in the Fiesta de Guadalupe! My arrival in P...
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Faith: the heart of Mexican fiestas
The Calendario de las Ferias y Festividades Religiosas de Mexico is a guide to enjoying what is uniquely Mexican -- Folk Catho...
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Living in Timucuy, Yucatan: birth, death and some in-between
The Setting Curanderismo The Inhabitants The Physical and Psychological Compadrazco The Beginning Love Is In the Air "I Do" Th...
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The Mennonites: a Dutch heritage in Mexico
The diversity of the Mexican population never ceases to amaze me. Whether being in Mexico City, Mazatlan, Oaxaca or Palenque I...
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The Catholic Church in Mexico, triumphs and traumas
It is a tribute to the sincerity and strength of the faith of the Mexican people, that Catholicism, is still the dominant reli...
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Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 3
Survivors. The very word has connotations of persecution, repression, hardship and escape. It also describes people with coura...
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Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 2
The vast majority of the approximately 50,000 Mexican citizens who practice Judaism via organized congregations are descendent...
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Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 1
The survival of Judaism in Mexico is a tale of tenacity and tolerance. The story begins in Spain with the "Conversos", Jews wh...
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The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa, a Mexico City neighborhood
The first traces of an awakening sun touch the morning horizon, brushing aside the night's long shadows. On the streets of Ixt...
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The Virgin of Guadalupe celebration in Oaxaca
Map of Oaxaca Map of Central Oaxaca She is the mother of all Mexicans, the savior and succor of the indigenous spirit, protect...
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Sliced Iguana: Travels in Unknown Mexico by Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree tells about her solitary travels to various parts of Mexico. Is this becoming a sort of literary sub-category - ...
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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The story is based on an actual event in Mexican history when, in 1926, then President Calles began a persecution of the Roman...
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Where Divergent Religious Customs Merge: Death Of An Infant In Oaxaca
Between the birth and the death came a crazy-quilt of only-in-Mexico experiences that resonated with my memories Daniel Pérez...
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Exvotos To St. Francis Of Assisi
The pictures here were taken in the church in the old mining town of Real de Catorce, in San Luis Potosi. There is a side ro...
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Church Of Our Lord Of Villaseca
Cata, Guanajuato This is part of one wall of the church in Cata, near the town of Guanajuato. When I visited in 1996, the wa...
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A Shrine To Santa Lucia
St. Lucia is the patron saint of eyes. The story is told that she was very beautiful, and had many suitors. One of them said t...
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Jose Garcia Olvera - El Professor De Los Pobres
Olvera has been teaching a choir in Santa Ana Tepetitlan, for boys aged six to 13 years old, five days a week for the last 23 ...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
We possess an extraordinary account of this beautiful story, dated in the 16th century: the Nican Mopohua , written by an Indi...
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Did you know? The Sistine Chapel of Mexico
A small church in Michoacán has been called the "Sistine Chapel of the Americas"....
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Did you know? The first Archbishop of Oaxaca: a miraculous birth and re-birth
In 1887, Eulogio Gregorio Clemente Gillow y Zavalza (1841-1922) was appointed Bishop of Antequera (Oaxaca). Four years later, ...
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Did you know? Mexico's first tourists
Father Alonso Ponce and Friar Antonio de Ciudad Real were probably Mexico's first ever tourists. Father Alonso Ponce de León ...
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La Virgen de Guadalupe - Mother of all Mexico
Strolling through street markets, browsing the tourist stalls, visitors to all parts of Mexico see mountains of goods featurin...
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The Day Of The Holy Cross - May 3rd
Each year on May 3rd processions of singing pilgrims carrying streamers and flowers wend their way through towns, cities and v...
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