South America

SÃO PAULO (OSV News) — In Brazil, 12 million families — up to 60 million people — live in slums, known as “favelas” in Portuguese, and 55 million people do …

SÃO PAULO (OSV News) — Church activists in the Amazon are worried about the Brazilian government’s plan to exploit oil in a marine area close to the mouth of the …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits’ legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for the Society of Jesus …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — A Salvadoran prelate has urged the country to “avoid the imprisonment of innocent people,” marking rare public comments from clergy on a crackdown against criminal …

By Manuel Rueda BOGOTA, Colombia (OSV News) — While the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shocked Ecuador Aug. 9, the bishops’ conference in the South American country expressed its …

SÃO PAULO (OSV News) — The visit of Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Spanish Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu to Peru to investigate the lay organization Sodalitium Christianae Vitae is being …

(OSV News) — Nicaraguans overwhelmingly disapprove of the conviction and imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, according to a survey in the increasingly repressing Central American country, where the …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The president of Bolivia welcomed a pledge from Pope Francis “to take concrete, joint actions against the impunity of sexual crimes” in the South American …

SÃO PAULO (OSV News) — Convicted for sexually abusing children and teenagers for years, two Brazilian priests described their crimes in their journals, giving substantial accounts of their monstrous acts. …

BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — Bishop Santiago Olivera of the Military Ordinariate of Argentina celebrated Mass May 11 to honor Blessed Bishop Mamerto Esquiú on his feast day. “Blessed Friar …