Central America

Jesuit Father José María Tojeira, a leading voice for justice in El Salvador, died suddenly of a heart attack on Sept. 5, while preparing a lecture in Guatemala City.

A new documentary on the life and crimes of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado was another chance for members of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi to confront the truth …

“Under no circumstances can the clergy report the abuses and daily surveillance to which they are subjected,” said a Nicaraguan lawyer in exile.

Catholic-led nonprofits in El Salvador say their future is at risk under a new “foreign agents” law that mirrors one used in neighboring Nicaragua to silence church groups and charities.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs blasted the school’s seizure in a X post, decrying the “cruelty” of the nation’s dictatorship.

“Many of us do not feel free,” Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez said during an Aug. 4 homily.

“With God’s grace” and support of church and community, “we will not tire of continuing to dream and fight peacefully for justice and freedom in Nicaragua.”

A Mexican priest remains in serious condition after being shot four times while traveling to minister to a sick person

Her deep Catholic faith “struck a chord with conservative peasants some of whom linked her to the Virgin Mary.”

(OSV News) — World leaders warmly congratulated Pope Leo XIV on his election and exhorted him to work toward peace in an increasingly conflictive word. Leaders in Latin America, meanwhile, …