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Senior churchman defends protestors in Peru as demonstrations intensify

Church in the Americas

Police guard outside Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's house on March 30, 2024. (Credit: Martin Mejia/AP.)

Senior churchman defends protestors in Peru as demonstrations intensify

Oct 20
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV meets Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025. Lula holds a book with a black and white photo representing the Asháninka, an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in Brazil and Peru. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

Oct 16
Eduardo Campos Lima

A woman shouts, “Murderers” in Spanish after Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Matilde Campodonico/AP.)

In a regional first, Uruguay passes a law allowing euthanasia

Oct 16
Associated Press

Venezuelan Catholics among those quietly celebrating Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado

Oct 14
Eduardo Campos Lima

Brazil: Life week mobilizes Catholics, other Christians

Oct 10
Eduardo Campos Lima

Ecuador: Church groups accompany demonstrators amid tensions between president, Indigenous people

Oct 8
Eduardo Campos Lima

Ex-priest accused of abusing 30 boys finally detained in Uruguay after 18 years

Oct 6
Eduardo Campos Lima

In Brazil, devotion to St. Michael the Archangel goes mass market

Oct 4
Eduardo Campos Lima

Schwarzenegger defies Trump, backs Vatican’s environment initiative

Oct 1
Associated Press

Tanaru. (Credit: Vincent Carelli, movie Corumbiara.)

Indigenous Man of the Hole wasn’t the last member of his group, missionaries in Brazil discover

Sep 25
Eduardo Campos Lima

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Senior churchman defends protestors in Peru as demonstrations intensify

Oct 20
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV appeals for peace in Myanmar

Oct 19
Crux Staff

Leo XIV on World Mission Sunday: ‘Will the Son of Man find faith on Earth?’

Oct 19
Crux Staff

King Charles III’s visit to Vatican marks a historic step in path of unity between two churches

Oct 17
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press