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

Category: Church in the Americas | Crux

Church in the Americas

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
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
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
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
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
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
Claudia Rosel,
Associated Press

Katisha Paul of the Lil'wat and Tsartlip Nations, left, and Peyal Laceese of the Tsilhqot'in nation touch a crate containing indigenous artifacts and cultural items at Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, after they were returned by the Vatican. (Credit: Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press via AP.)

Indigenous artifacts returned by the Vatican are now at a Canadian museum

Dec 10
Associated Press

Egda Lee sets up an altar centered around a picture of the Virgin Mary which she carried with her when she crossed the U.S. border in 1984 pregnant with her son Neri Flores, as Nicaraguan parishioners of St. John Bosco Catholic Church celebrate the Dec. 8 feast of the Immaculate Conception, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Miami. (Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP.)

Nicaraguans celebrate Virgin Mary in Miami despite fears at home and in US

Dec 9
Giovanna Dell'Orto,
Associated Press

Mexico’s coat of arms decorates a large flag in the city’s Zocalo square, Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Credit: Claudia Rosel/AP.)

Amid wave of violence, Church prepares for new phase for peace in Mexico

Dec 5
Eduardo Campos Lima

Sister Maria Elena cuts a photograph of a missing girl to paste on a Christmas ornament on the Tree of Hope in the Cathedral in Ecatepec, Mexico, on Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

A Christmas tree in Mexico carries the faces of loved ones who never came home

Nov 29
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

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