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Gunmen kill at least 30 villagers and abduct others during raid in northern Nigeria

Church in the Americas

Residents look at a damaged apartment complex that neighbors say was hit during U.S. strikes to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

‘Still shaken’: Trepidation in Venezuela after US captures Maduro

Jan 5
Regina Garcia Cano,
Associated Press

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks at a ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of the signing of a peace deal between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Credit: Fernando Vergara/AP.)

Colombian Catholics among those concerned after Trump threatens country’s president

Jan 5
Eduardo Campos Lima

Men watch smoke rising from a dock after explosions were heard at La Guaira port, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

Venezuelan Church reacts to US abduction of Maduro with caution

Jan 4
Eduardo Campos Lima

People protest the government of Panama in Panama City on May 6, 2025. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

Panama’s Church still helping people deported by Trump in February

Dec 31, 2025
Eduardo Campos Lima

Mariela Gmez, right, and her partner Abraham Castro, a Venezuelan migrant couple, sit for Christmas dinner at Castro's parents' home in Maracay, Venezuela, early Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. The couple abandoned their journey to the United States and returned home from Mexico by land and sea following President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

A Venezuelan family’s Christmas: From the American dream to poverty

Dec 26, 2025
Matias Delacroix,
Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks at a ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of the signing of a peace deal between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Credit: Fernando Vergara/AP.)

At gunpoint in Colombia, priest forced to speak for guerrillas through Church’s loudspeakers

Dec 24, 2025
Eduardo Campos Lima

Father Julio Lancellotti hands food to a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 3, 2020. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Brazilian cardinal orders a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks

Dec 17, 2025
Mauricio Savarese,
Associated Press

Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the opposition Republican Party, waves after winning the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

Landslide win for Kast gives Chile its most conservative president in decades

Dec 15, 2025
Isabel Debre,
Nayara Batschke, Associated Press

Police are seen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Aug. 28, 2025. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Catholics denounces restrictions on spiritual assistance in Brazilian prisons

Dec 15, 2025
Eduardo Campos Lima

A woman cries as she looks up at the Virgin of Guadalupe image handing on the wall at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, on her feast day, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Credit: Claudia Rosel/AP.)

Thousands of devotees flood Mexico City for Virgin of Guadalupe pilgrimage

Dec 13, 2025
Claudia Rosel,
Associated Press

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Gunmen kill at least 30 villagers and abduct others during raid in northern Nigeria

Jan 5
Associated Press

‘Still shaken’: Trepidation in Venezuela after US captures Maduro

Jan 5
Regina Garcia Cano,
Associated Press

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Colombian Catholics among those concerned after Trump threatens country’s president

Jan 5
Eduardo Campos Lima