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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Deepa Bharath

A group of Catholics revitalized a remote Arizona village before the diocese ordered them to leave

Arizona Catholic Group Evicted - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The village of Concho in the Arizona high desert is home to about 50 people — barely a dot in a sprawling, dusty landscape speckled with clumps of grass, scrub oak and juniper. Concho, about 200 miles northeast of Phoenix, has one restaurant, a Dollar General and a gas station that closes at 7 p.m.

But this remote hamlet is now at the center of a Catholic Church controversy.

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