A new controversy erupts as support varies among church factions over the Jewish state, pulling in an unusual array of voices ...

Shifting religious landscape Sociologist Gustavo Morello, S.J., leads the most widespread qualitative study of how religion is lived in Latin America ...

The first American pope arrives at the papal summer retreat to work on his encyclical, with suggestions it should avoid politics and focus on religious liberty and vocations.

Top church leaders visited Gaza on Friday after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before, an ...

In a July 17 telegram, Pope Leo XIV said he was “deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the ...

Latinos are now 40 percent of the U.S. Catholic Church and likely to become the majority. The election of American-Peruvian Pope Leo reflects their ascendence.

Tensions between Christian groups and the Israeli government are deepening after US Ambassador Mike Huckabee issued a sharp ...

In the opening shot of Apocalypse in the Tropics, the camera pans across a cracked canvas on which a group of nude figures, all with blurred expressions, seek shelter inside the protective cocoon of a ...

Uruguay is an exception. With a population of just 3.4 million, the small Latin American nation has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to ...

Coastal communities in Spain every year honor Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the patron of sailors. In Estepona, a former fishing ...

LGBTQ rights endure when they are written into or otherwise grounded in national constitutions; culturally normalized across ...