Giovanna Dell'orto
Giovanna Dell'orto is an author at Religion News Service.
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Catholic diocese sues US government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave
By Giovanna Dell'orto — September 3, 2024
In his own border diocese of El Paso, Texas, Bishop Mark Seitz is facing the possibility of losing priests whose permanent residency cases now have little chance to be approved before their visas expire. The law mandates them to leave the United States for at least a year.
Marseille and the sea: A portrait of the millennia-old port city that is hosting Olympic sailing
By Giovanna Dell'orto — August 6, 2024
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — The millennia-old port is a crossroads of cultures and faiths, where the beauty and cosmopolitan flair rub shoulders with enclaves of poverty and exclusion even more intimately than in the rest of France.
Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition
By Giovanna Dell'orto — July 24, 2024
RNS - Bans on Native drum ceremonies bring up resonant histories of forced repression and trauma for Native communities today.
In secular France, chaplains prepare to provide Olympians with spiritual support during the Games
By Giovanna Dell'orto — June 10, 2024
PARIS (AP) — As athletes rev up their training and organizers finalize everything from ceremonies to podiums before the Paris Olympics, more than 120 faith leaders are preparing for a different challenge — spiritually supporting some 10,000 Olympic athletes from around the world, especially those whose medal dreams will inevitably get crushed.
From schools to the Olympics, how France’s staunch secularism affects religion in public life
By Giovanna Dell'orto — May 24, 2024
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, this unique way to define the role of religion in public life is getting more scrutiny.
France is proud of its secularism. But struggles grow in this approach to faith, school, integration
By Giovanna Dell'orto — May 23, 2024
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — The struggle cuts to the core of how France approaches not only the place of religion in public life, but also the integration of its mostly immigrant-origin Muslim population, Western Europe’s largest.
Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
By Giovanna Dell'orto — April 15, 2024
HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — Elevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has continued his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant.
Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives
By Giovanna Dell'orto — April 11, 2024
COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) — Tens of thousands of youths from this region of Guatemala would rather take deadly risks than stay behind where they see no future.
Fasting at school? More Muslim students in the US are getting support during Ramadan
By Darren Sands, Corey Williams, Giovanna Dell'orto, and Mariam Fam — March 18, 2024
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Fasting is not required of young children, but many Muslim children like to fast to share in the month's rituals and emulate parents and older siblings, according to the Islamic Networks Group.
As threats to Black cemeteries persist, a movement to preserve their sacred heritage gains strength
By Darren Sands and Giovanna Dell'orto — March 15, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — When sites of sacred cultural memory are desecrated, it adds additional trauma to the indignity of being segregated even in death, said the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
Virgin of Charity unites all Cubans — Catholics, Santeria followers, exiled and back on the island
By Luis Andres Henao and Giovanna Dell'orto — March 14, 2024
EL COBRE, Cuba (AP) — The cult of the Virgin of Charity became part of Cuban nationalism in late 19th century.
Nicaragua’s crackdown on Catholic Church spreads fear among the faithful, there and in exile
By Giovanna Dell'orto — February 12, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — Like several Latin American governments tracing their roots back to socialist revolutions, Nicaragua’s has had an uneven relationship with faith leaders for decades.
Fueled by unprecedented border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts
By Giovanna Dell'orto — January 17, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — About 261,000 cases of migrants placed in removal proceedings are pending in the Miami court — the largest docket in the country.
Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills
By Giovanna Dell'orto and MarÍa Teresa HernÁndez — December 19, 2023
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Most nuns and monks involved in preparing the delicacies are quick to point out that their main mission is to pray, not to cook — and that doing both involves finding a delicate balance.
In Florida farmland, Guadalupe feast celebrates, sustains 60-year-old mission to migrant workers
By Giovanna Dell'orto — December 13, 2023
NARANJA, Fla. (AP) — The feast draws millions of pilgrims to the main basilica in Mexico City and to churches big and small across the Americas around Dec. 12.
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