Abel Camasca

Abel Camasca

Abel Camasca is a journalist of ACI Prensa. He was born in Pisco, Peru, and studied communications at the University of Lima. For several years he was the producer of the TV program EWTN Noticias in Spanish and responsible of the radio show Más que noticias on Radio Católica Mundial. He is a member of the Salesian Family.

Articles by Abel Camasca

Father Bernardo Mercado, the Jesuit provincial in Bolivia. Credit: ACI Prensa/YouTube screen shot

Jesuit provincial in Bolivia admits mistakes were made in dealing with sex abuse cases

May 24, 2023 / 11:15 am

The Jesuit provincial in Bolivia, Father Bernardo Mercado, admitted that his religious order made mistakes in handling cases of sexual abuse.

Vatican's top abuse investigator Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna (right) and fellow papal envoy Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu give a press conference at the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, on June 19, 2018. Claudio Reyes/AFP via Getty Images

Vatican expert to go to Bolivia to examine the progress being made in sex abuse prevention

May 23, 2023 / 15:01 pm

Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith previously investigated sexual abuse in the Church in Chile.

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Carmelite priest arrested, others accused in Bolivia on sex abuse charges

May 22, 2023 / 15:45 pm

In the midst of allegations of sexual abuse against Jesuit priests in Bolivia, a Carmelite priest was arrested recently by the authorities.

St. Titus Brandsma Credit: Congerdesign on Pixabay / St. Titus Brandsma Public Domain - Wikimedia Commons

Here’s the prayer of a journalist saint before he died for freedom of the Catholic press

May 6, 2023 / 11:00 am

St. Titus Brandsma was a Carmelite priest whose efforts cost him his life at the hands of the Nazi regime.

The flogging of Christ. Credit: Public Domain - Wikimedia Commons

Which countries in the Americas do not celebrate Holy Week?

Apr 6, 2023 / 13:45 pm

Many countries declare holidays for the faithful to participate in Holy Week activities, but not all nations in the Americas officially celebrate it.

Young Salesians in Syria. Credit: Salesian ANS

How the Salesians are helping youth in Syria, a country in its 12th year of civil war

Mar 16, 2023 / 17:30 pm

March 15 marked the 12th year of civil war in Syria, where bombs, poverty, and earthquakes have destroyed the country.

Feminist groups attacked the metropolitan cathedral in Mexico on March 8, 2023. Credit: Catolin / Paintings of feminists in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Communication Commission of the Archbishopric of Cochabamba

Feminists in Latin America attack Catholic churches on International Women’s Day

Mar 10, 2023 / 16:30 pm

Some feminist groups used International Women’s Day to vandalize Catholic churches and public buildings in Latin American countries.

Dialogue between protesters and the government of Panama. Archdiocese of Panama

Panama archbishop trusts talks will solve protests over fuel prices

Jul 15, 2022 / 17:50 pm

"I believe in the good will of all of us Panamanians and there is no other tool to find solutions than dialogue," Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta of Panama told the local press at the start of the process of the talks to end the protests against the government over increases in the price of fuel and food.