Latin America

Vatican official: Use mercy to transform those who favor abortion
- Aug 31, 2020
The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Catholic groups need to use mercy and compassion in anti-abortion campaigns as they seek to “transform” those who do not support the rights of unborn children.

By Manuel Rueda
Latin America’s evangelical churches hard hit by pandemic
- Aug 26, 2020
In many Latin American countries, evangelical churches have flouted public health guidelines by holding in-person services, or have personally ministered to church members in homes and other settings.

By Associated Press
Led by women, Latin America rallies against modern-day slavery
- Aug 21, 2020
ROSARIO, Argentina — Experts from around the world gathered online Friday to talk about the scope of human trafficking in Latin America, and to share best practices to prevent modern-day slavery that currently affects some 45 million people from the United States to Thailand. Ilva Myriam Hoyos Castañeda, a lawyer

By Inés San Martín

Mexican Church cites ‘selfishness’ in COVID spread; Diocese says El Salvador priest’s murder ‘inexplicable’
- Aug 11, 2020
On Friday, a priest was murdered in El Salvador. On Saturday, thousands mobilized in Argentina to mark the second international Day for Two Lives, a pro-life event. And on Sunday, the archdiocesan newspaper of Mexico City argued that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t slowing down in the country because people are “selfish.”

By Inés San Martín
Brazilian bishop famous for clashes with John Paul II dies at 92
- Aug 11, 2020
Bishop Pere Casaldáliga, born in Spain in 1928, died on Saturday in Brazil, at the age of 92.

By Inés San Martín
Medjugorje message expresses Pope Francis’s ‘Marian Classic’
- Aug 4, 2020
Pope Francis has a classically Latin American passion for the Madonna and for popular devotions to her that express the souls of so many cultures on his home continent.

By John L. Allen Jr.