Latin Pulse looks forward this week to the upcoming trip to Brazil by Pope Francis. The discussion revolves around the symbolic importance of this trip as the first pope from Latin America returns to the region for his first international trip as pope. The program discusses the competition between Catholicism and evangelical Protestants in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. The program also discusses the various initiatives Pope Francis has undertaken this year. The news segment covers the discovery this week of a North Korean freighter, which unsuccessfully tried to traverse the Panama Canal, laden with arms from Cuba.The program includes in-depth interviews with:
Tom Quigley, formerly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; and
Andrew Chesnut of Virginia Commonwealth University.
Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell
Associate Producer: Curt Devine.
(To download or stream this podcast, click here.)
(The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.)
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news
Latin America
Panama Canal
Cuba
Brazil
Pope Francis
protest movement
weapons
smuggling
Argentina
Panama
embargo
religion
North Korea
Catholicism
protests
poverty
Pope Benedict XVI
evangelicals
pentecostalism
charistmatic Catholics
The Vatican
immigration
Pope John Paul II
Pope John XXIII
Sean O'Malley
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga
corruption
evangelization
liberation theology
World Youth Day
human rights
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