"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul." ...

An open letter to the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (known by the Spanish acronym CELAM) released in ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa, and Latin America have called for climate justice, denouncing wealthy nations' 'false ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that countries belonging to the Organization of American States (OAS) ...

Improving access to renewable energy is particularly urgent in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), where 60 million people live without reliable power and 16 million lack even basic access to ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

The Pope's legacy on social justice Pope Francis leaves a legacy of ... Italy or Europe or something like that. And so Francis was different in two ways. He came from Latin America, and he was ...

The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S ...

They are both of Latin American heritage. And they both championed social justice issues. "I felt very close to him," Estevez said of Francis, who died on April 21.

In the twentieth century, Latin American leaders such as Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico and another Chilean, Salvador Allende, fought for economic and social justice, and the right to basic needs ...

In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia, to challenge the Roman Catholic Church to expand its definition of charity to include the advocacy of social justice for ...

Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, holds a special place for Hispanic Catholics. The soccer-loving, ... “He addressed issues related to immigration, to social justice, ...