Offerings laid to ancestral gods
Indigenous pilgrims from Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos and Mexico City arrived at Chapala’s waterfront on Monday, July 12 en route to Xapawiyeme, a sacred site located on the Isla de los Alacranes (Scorpion Island).
Indigenous pilgrims from Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos and Mexico City arrived at Chapala’s waterfront on Monday, July 12 en route to Xapawiyeme, a sacred site located on the Isla de los Alacranes (Scorpion Island).
Jalisco’s most venerated religious icon, the Virgin of Zapopan, rolled into Chapala Sunday, July 11, for her customary summer visit to raise prayers for a favorable rainy season and blessings for Mexico’s largest lake.
The installation of a dialysis clinic at Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) is advancing at a rapid and steady pace, with aims to begin offering service to patients as soon as next month.
In the wake of last month’s local election, Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya recently sat down for an interview with the Guadalajara Reporter to share his reflections on his loss at the polls and expectations for what can be achieved in the two and a half months before he leaves office.
Mariana Macías Ornelas of San Antonio Tlayacapan captured the Miss Grand México 2021 crown at the finals of the national Miss Mexico pageant held on July 1 in Chihuahua’s capital city.
Experts from the Guadalajara branch of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) visited San Antonio Tlayacapan this week to compile a registry of antiquities housed in the town’s Museo Comunitario.
Guadalajara NGO Nariz Roja has launched a campaign to raise five million pesos to purchase medicines for children with cancer in five states (Jalisco, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chihuahua and Durango) that have extremely short supply.
Representatives of ten charitable organizations were special guests of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church on Sunday, July 4, attending to receive grants in support of their good works.
A trio of palm trees that once stood at the foot of the Chapala Malecón have disappeared one by one over the past decade after surviving periods of drought and high water over the years.