The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No ...

The Salvadoran Congress has studied decriminalizing abortion since October 2016, when Deputy Lorena Peña of the leftist Farabundo Marti National ... of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar.

The death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American ...

During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, ...

No hay dudas de que aquel nacimiento, ocurrido el 28 de noviembre de 1880 en Brooklyn, Nueva York, cambió la vida de José Martí. Había venido al mundo María Mantilla (1880-1962), hija legal de Carmen ...

Following the resignation of Benedict XVI, the March 2013 conclave elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the 266th Pope of the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The passing of Latin America's first pope sparked an upwelling of sorrow but also gratitude Monday, with everyone from Lionel Messi to disparaged migrants marking the life of ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives over climate change and ...

Half-baked and shoddy projects, labor exploitation, debt traps and devastating environmental damage are part of the Chinese Communist Party portfolio. And people are noticing. In 2014, the China ...

As the first Argentinian to be elected to the papacy, Pope Francis’s rise was of particular significance in Latin America. For millions of Argentines, the late Pope was both a figure of ...

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – The passing of Latin America's first pope sparked an upwelling of sorrow but also gratitude Monday, with everyone from Lionel Messi to disparaged migrants marking ...