In a message addressed to Latin American priests, seminarians, and religious men and women studying in Rome, Pope Leo XIV encouraged them to remember their calling to follow Christ and strive to place ...

At the conclusion of the conference, Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place at 4 p.m. local time in St. Peter ...

In Salvador de Bahía, one of the 15th century’s primary slave trafficking ports, Afro-tourism has become a pillar of the ...

As the US doubles down on overt interventions, experts warn policymakers may be overlooking a key battlefield: prisons across the region.

A stabilization of religious identification could mean the anticipated transformation of religious and civic life may slow.

Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people ...

New research on 220,000 Latin Americans reveals a paradox: church affiliation dropped from 93% to 82% and attendance is ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the religious leader of Catholics in the Palestinian territories and Israel, is visiting ...

Leo XIV has governed through pastoral warmth, quiet competence and careful incrementalism. Whether that approach heals the ...

The American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual joint meeting mixed scholars’ research in Biblical and religious studies with sessions on such hot-button issues as ...

Following Jesus doesn’t require rejecting my family’s culture. God loves my latinidad. My abuela is the saintliest person I know. I spent a large portion of my early childhood in her care, and if I ...

Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela form a Latin American authoritarian triad where leaders exert religious persecution to maintain governmental control, the U.S. Commission on International Religious ...