Pope Benedict XVI has created a new diocese in La Ceiba, and appointed the first bishop. The new diocese comprises the departments of Atlántida and the Bay Islands of Honduras, with 12 municipalities. It is a subordinate of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. San Isidro Labrador Parish Church of La Ceiba will be the Cathedral of […]
Local people packing a relief shipment for Honduras just planned to load a cargo container on Tuesday afternoon. Instead, they also got a visit from Fabio Porfirio Lobo, son of the president of Honduras. He had come up from Miami when he heard about the effort. Lobo visited Christian Care Outreach on Spirit Lake Road […]
Pope Benedict XVI said he was pleased that the Central American nation had found stability. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, 63, a member of the conservative National Party, had a 23-minute closed door meeting with the pope Oct. 13 at the Vatican. Lobo won a November 2009 election five months after the Honduran military overthrew and forced […]
During his May 23 visit to the Episcopal Church Center in New York City, Bishop Lloyd Allen of the Diocese of Honduras described a flourishing diocese that is teaching its congregants to be “independent.” “Since we established that we would do evangelism head-over-heels, it’s a new dawn in our diocese,” said Allen, president of Province […]