Posts Tagged ‘swine flu’

Paraguay Proceedings

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Matthew & Bethany in Buenos Aires, ArgentinaThe passengers filed down the stairs from the just-arrived airliner to the buses waiting on the tarmac. Each wore the government-required surgical mask & gloves. Disembarking at the terminal, each was subjected to an electronic scan to detect Swine Flu. Such was our welcome to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on our way to Paraguay.

Helpless & Hopeless

Monday, May 4th, 2009

After 300 years in storage, the icon of the <B><I>Christ of Health</B></I> was placed on the altar of Mexico City`s  Metropolitan CathedralIf the economic downturn, cartel wars, & rampant street crime were not enough, now the people of Mexico are also suffering from the effects of the Swine Flu epidemic. I recently received a vivid reminder of just how all of these problems converge & add to the helplessness & hopelessness Mexicans feel daily.

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