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The latest ‘Knives Out’ film takes place in the Court of the Gentiles

Church in the Americas

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

Homoxexual Catholics go on pilgrimage to Aparecida, Brazil in 2024. (Credit: Network of LGBT+ Catholic Groups.)

Brazil now has a bishop heading its LGBT+ ministry

Nov 27
Eduardo Campos Lima

The 16th Latin American and Caribbean Pastoral Encounter (EPA) meets in Luján, Argentina. (Credit: EPA.)

Black Catholics in Latin America look to Pope Leo for support

Nov 25
Eduardo Campos Lima

Presidential candidate José Antonio Kast of the Republican Party of Chile speaks to supporters in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Cristobal Escobar/AP.)

Chile’s most polarized presidential race in decades boosts the right with conservative Catholic candidate

Nov 19
Isabel Debre,
Associated Press

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Category: Church in the Americas | Crux

The latest ‘Knives Out’ film takes place in the Court of the Gentiles

Dec 15
Charles Collins

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

Dec 15
Isabel Debre,
Nayara Batschke, Associated Press

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, a Catholic, convicted in landmark national security trial

Dec 15
Kanis Leung,
Associated Press

Filipino activist priests file plunder complaint against VP Duterte

Dec 15
Joseph San Mateo