David Agren

(OSV News) — Mexican National Guard members burst into a parish church during Mass to arrest a migrant, forcing the temporary suspension of the service — an interruption the local …

(OSV News) — Mexico’s bishops have blasted the use of the folkloric La Santa Muerte by the country’s ruling party as a distortion of the nation’s “fundamental values” ahead of …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — One year after the Ciudad Juárez migrant detention center fire, a caravan of approximately 2,000 migrants called “Viacrucis migrante” set out from the southern Mexican …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The Catholic peace group Pueblo Creyente marched through the colonial city of San Cristóbal de las Casas Jan. 26 to remember the late Bishop Samuel …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile — along with 18 other churchmen who had been imprisoned …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The Pontifical Mission Societies and Aid to the Church in Need are urging Christians to pray for peace in Nicaragua amid a crackdown on the …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Argentina’s Catholic Church will no longer receive public funding, concluding a process established by the country’s bishops’ conference for the church to provide its own …

(Editors’ Note: Updated with new information Jan. 1 at 2 p.m. EST) MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Since Christmas, Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries have detained more than a dozen priests, …

BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — Six lay staff members from a now-closed diocesan Cáritas chapter were convicted on money laundering charges in Nicaragua on Christmas Eve as the Sandinista regime …

BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — Cardinal Eduardo Pironio has been beatified in his native Argentina, where he was remembered as “the prophet of hope,” who worked to implement the Second …