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People take part in a rally at the Legislative Plaza, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Two Tennessee lawmakers organized a prayer rally on Wednesday timed to coincide with a protest in the nation's Capitol in support of President Donald Trump's baseless claims that he won reelection. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey via Crux)

World

All too familiar with coups, LatAm bishops voice alarm over US Capitol chaos

Inés San Martín|Jan 8, 2021|4 Min Read

Shoppers, the vast majority wearing protective face masks, crowd a street in a commercial district of central Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP via Crux)

World

2021 brings new challenges to Church in Latin America

Inés San Martín|Jan 5, 2021|4 Min Read

Fire from a molotov cocktail explodes in front of police as a police vehicle shoots water at protesters who marched against the commemoration of the discovery of the Americas, organized by Indigenous groups demanding autonomy and the recovery of ancestral land in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Esteban Felix/AP via Crux)

World

Part Two: Latin America’s biggest Catholic stories of 2020

Inés San Martín|Dec 29, 2020|5 Min Read

An abortion-rights activist watches a big tv screen showing lawmakers in session outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The Argentine lower house has approved a bill that would legalize abortion. The bill now moves to the Senate. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP via Crux)

World

Part One: Latin America’s biggest Catholic stories of 2020

Inés San Martín|Dec 28, 2020|7 Min Read

This painting by artist Laura Vasquez Rodriguez seen Nov. 20, 2019, was part of an exhibit in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. (Archdiocese of Los Angeles)

As pandemic devastates Latin America, pope prays to St. Juan Diego

Junno Arocho Esteves|Dec 9, 2020|2 Min Read

Bishop William Iraheta of Santiago de Maria, El Salvador, speaks in Chalatenango Nov. 26, 2020, about Father Ricardo Antonio Cortez Martínez, rector of the seminary in his diocese, who was killed execution style in August. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America approved a $60,000 grant request for the St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero seminary in November. Father Cortez wrote the request weeks before his assassination. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

World

U.S. bishops' Latin America collection to fund seminary whose rector was killed

Rhina Guidos|Nov 30, 2020|3 Min Read

Luis Arce, center, Bolivian presidential candidate for the Movement Towards Socialism Party, MAS, and running mate David Choquehuanca, second right, celebrate during a press conference where they claim victory after general elections in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. (Juan Karita/AP via Crux)

World

Tumult over sex abuse, abortion and corruption grips LatAm church

Inés San Martín|Nov 16, 2020|8 Min Read

Mercy Sister Betty Campbell and Carmelite Father Peter Hinde pose next to an illustration of St. Oscar Romero in a 2019 photo in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Father Hinde and Sister Campbell will receive the CRISPAZ Peace Award Nov. 17 for their decades of ministry and social justice work in Latin America. (CNS photo/Julie Bourbon, courtesy Sisters of Mercy of the Americas)

Faith

Carmelite priest, Mercy sister to be honored for social justice work

David Agren|Nov 11, 2020|3 Min Read

A protester gestures while a church is set on fire during a demonstration against Chile's government in Santiago Oct. 18, 2020, the one-year anniversary of the protests and riots that rocked the capital in 2019. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)

World

Chile church attacks reflect growing Latam wave of anti-Christian violence

Inés San Martín|Oct 26, 2020|4 Min Read

People react during a protest against police actions in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 13, 2020. (Catholic News Service/Luisa Gonzalez, Reuters)

World

Can pope’s upcoming encyclical show Latin America a way forward?

Inés San Martín|Oct 2, 2020|5 Min Read

Marilyn Miranda, 9, draped in a Salvadoran flag, attends an immigration rally with her mother outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 4, 2019. A Sept. 14, 2020, decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for 9th Circuit in Ramos v. Nielsen brings the Trump administration one step closer to ending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for almost all people with TPS in the United States. (CNS photo/Leah Millis, Reuters)

President was within rights to end TPS, court says

Rhina Guidos|Sep 14, 2020|3 Min Read

A priest in Mexico City celebrates Mass Jan. 11, 2018. The Mexican bishops' conference presented an action plan March 5 for preventing minors from sexual abuse by clergy and pastoral agents; it also addressed the cases of abuse that have occurred. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

World

On clerical abuse milestone, reasons to hope from Latin America

Inés San Martín|Aug 19, 2020|4 Min Read

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