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25 November 2017

This Priest Says Adoration Has Made Juarez a Safer City

We don't have 24 hour Adoration here, but it probably wouldn't work, anyway, in such a small Parish. However, St Wenceslaus is open all day (and maybe all night, but I'm no longer one to go out at night). In the past, I have lived near a 24 hour Adoration chapel, and it is a wonderful idea!

From Catholic News Agency

This priest says Adoration has made Juarez a safer city: Juarez, located in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, was considered from 2008 to 2010 to be one of the the most dangerous cities in the world, due to drug trafficking violence and the constant struggles for power and territory between the cartels.


However, the city of 1.3 million inhabitants dropped off this list thanks to a significant decrease in the number of homicides: from 3,766 in 2010 to 256 in 2015.
Although this drop can be credited to an improvement in the work of local authorities, for Fr. Patrico Hileman – a priest responsible for establishing Perpetual Adoration chapels in Latin America – there is a much deeper reason: Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
“When a parish adores God day and night, the city is transformed,” Fr. Hileman said.

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