Historic visit of the Pope

May 8, 1974

SECOND STAGE OF CECYT BEGINS. With an investment of two million pesos, the Administrative Committee of the Federal Program for the Construction of Schools began the second stage of the Center for Scientific and Technological Studies 203 of this city. The work will be completed before next September, so that it can enter service in the 1974-75 school year. The layout of the foundation of the building, which will consist of six classrooms and workshops, began, and immediately afterwards its construction will begin. They trust that there will be no shortage of materials.

THERE IS NO HOPE FOR PEACE. Syria. Syrian and Israeli forces once again fought artillery duels for the 57th. consecutive day on the Golan Hills front, but there were indications that the intensity of fighting was lower in the past eight weeks. “It is less intense,” declared an Israeli military source, referring to the Syrian artillery fire. “But I don’t think the change is significant enough to make a certain judgment.” Meanwhile, an Israeli military patrol that crossed the border with Lebanon was bombed by Lebanese artillery, destroying its vehicle and setting it on fire.

STORK INTERRUPTS BABY SHOWER. Lupita Preciado from Nafarrate did not have the opportunity to enjoy the baby shower that her friends, Blanca de Valdez, Celina de Páez, Toñita de Serrano and Georgina de Zamarripa, had prepared for her. The stork had an extra-fast flight and on the day of the celebration, she landed at a clinic in the city with a handsome little boy, while the party in honor of the debutante mother was being celebrated. Mr. Armando Nafarrate is very happy with his first heir.

May 8, 1999

RISK OF BUSINESS PARALYZATION. The regional industry is at risk of suspending operations due to the lack of raw materials and the high cost of electricity service, warned the president of Canacintra, Jorge Balderrama. He pointed out that the high operating costs of the industry for this reason have taken this productive sector out of competition and stated that the closure of some rice processing plants, oil extractors, gins and other industries has become widespread, which causes a serious unemployment problem.

HISTORIC VISIT OF THE POPE. Bucharest. John Paul II arrived in Romania on the first visit in almost a thousand years by a pontiff to a country where Eastern Orthodox Christianity is mainly professed. After getting off the plane at the local Baneasa airport, the Pope hugged the leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Theoctistus, and then walked along a red carpet, holding hands with President Emil Constantinescu, being greeted by a group of children. who gave him bread and salt, in the traditional Romanian welcome. “It is the first time that Divine Providence offered me the possibility of making an apostolic trip to a mainly Orthodox country,” the pope said, highlighting that he particularly hoped that the visit would contribute to “healing the wounds” in Catholic-Orthodox relations. due to the persecution of Catholics during the communist regime, overthrown in 1989. The Pope’s visit, part of his campaign for the reconciliation of the various Christian confessions as the new millennium approaches, has raised hopes for greater unity among the Catholic Churches and Orthodox in Romania. This country has not had a papal visit since the Great Schism of 1054, when the Eastern Church split from Rome. Patriarch Theoctistus said that “this visit will promote greater understanding, not only in our lives, but also in the lives of the Churches. In Romania, almost 90 percent of the 23 million inhabitants belong to the Orthodox Church.

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Sylva Mónica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her basic and high school studies in Los Mochis, stayed two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected the English language. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and later, in 2000, she became an assistant to the Editorial Team of El Debate de Los Mochis, tasks that led her to take charge of the entertainment page for more than 10 years and the newspaper archive. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the Los Mochis column 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took over the history column, which he later changed to Mi Ciudad 50 and 25 years, in which he narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE of Los Mochis.

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