Argentina has legalized abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, despite strong Catholic opposition and polls showing deep divisions on the issue. The Senate approved the bill 38-29 Dec. 30 after a 12-hour debate as ...
Mexican church and civic officials have canceled public feast celebrations for Mexico's patroness at her shrine in Mexico City due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The celebration normally attracts 10 million pilgrims to the Basilica of ...
Caritas, the church's charitable agency, was responding to Hurricane Eta, which hit Nicaragua Nov. 3 and threatened to provoke devastating flooding and destruction as it moved through Central America. Hurricane Eta made landfall on the Mosquito ...
A Spanish court has convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murders of five Jesuit priests in 1989 -- a rare act of justice for an atrocity from El Salvador's brutal civil war. In a Sept. ...
People started lining up shortly after noon outside the 16th-century Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in southern Mexico City. Most practiced social distancing as best they could on a bustling sidewalk; all were clutching ...
Mexico's Supreme Court ruled against a proposal that could have paved the way for the decriminalization of abortion across the country. In a 4-1 decision handed down July 29, the high court's first bench voted down ...
Mexico's bishops pledged to help the people affected by an earthquake in southern Oaxaca state that left at least five dead. "We put ourselves under the protective mantle of our mother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, ...
Lawmakers in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato have shelved a pair of initiatives to legalize abortion, an issue being introduced for debate in legislatures around the country. In a virtual session May 25, a ...
Mexico's bishops have called for the federal government to reconsider its COVID-19 response, urging the president to set aside a suite of mega-projects and instead put the funds toward families facing pandemic hardships. The bishops ...
atin American and Caribbean bishops have dedicated the Americas to the care of Our Lady of Guadalupe, praying for her "maternal protection" during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a closed-door Mass celebrated Easter, April 12, at ...
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