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Pro-life supporters pray during a 2019 protest outside the local congress in Oaxaca, Mexico. In late July, Mexico's bishops called on Catholics to speak out ahead of a ruling from the country's Supreme Court, which could lead to a nationwide decriminalization of abortion. (CNS photo/Jorge Luis Plata, Reuters)

World

Mexican Church defends right to speak on public issues after government warning

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

A child is pictured in a file photo being baptized at a church in Mexico City. The apostolic nuncio to Mexico has warned the country's bishops to "look reality in the eye" as the country's non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

World

Apostolic nuncio to Mexican bishops: 'Look reality in the eye'

David Agren|Apr 14, 2021|3 Min Read

A health care worker administers a dose of the Sinovac's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine to a person at a vaccination center in Santiago, Chile, Feb. 3, 2021. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters via CNS)

World

Latin America prepares for Holy Week as COVID cases rise

Inés San Martín|Mar 30, 2021|4 Min Read

President Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico holds a virtual bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden March 1, 2021, from the National Palace in Mexico City. (CNS photo/Mexico's Presidency Office, Handout via Reuters)

Biden begins talks with Mexico touching on immigration, Virgin of Guadalupe

Rhina Guidos|Mar 2, 2021|3 Min Read

An asylum-seeker snaps a selfie at a Mass celebrated Jan. 9, 2021, by Matamoros Bishop Eugenio Lira Rugarcía in a camp populated by asylum-seekers on the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico. The camp has remained largely free of COVID-19 thanks to prevention measures taken by residents and volunteers. (CNS photo/David Agren)

World

As COVID-19 deaths increase, Mexican bishops announce focus on prevention

David Agren|Feb 1, 2021|4 Min Read

Guatemalans who fear their relatives were among 19 charred bodies in two burned-out vehicles found in Camargo, Mexico, depart the Faculty of Medicine in Guatemala City Jan. 25, 2021. They gave DNA samples to help in the identification. (CNS photo/Luis Echeverria, Reuters)

World

Church activists demand investigation after possible massacre of migrants

David Agren|Jan 28, 2021|2 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

Carlos Melendez holds a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe outside the basilica named for her in Mexico City Dec. 1, 2020. He arrived earlier than usual due to the basilica closing for the Dec. 12 feast day due to COVID-19. (CNS photo/David Agren)

World

Pilgrims visit Mexico's Guadalupe basilica before its closure for feast

David Agren|Dec 2, 2020|3 Min Read

Marijuana leaves are seen next to Mexico's Senate building at the protest cannabis garden of the Cannabico Mexican Movement in Mexico City Nov. 19, 2020. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

World

Mexican bishops express dismay with bill to legalize marijuana

David Agren|Nov 23, 2020|3 Min Read

A migrant mother from Honduras plays with her 4-month-old child in Tierra Blanca, Mexico, as they wait for a lift to the United States Jan. 27, 2019. The New York Times first reported Central American migrant children who are in the U.S. are being sent to Mexico in an Oct. 30, 2020, story. (CNS photo/Alexandre Meneghini, Reuters)

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Report: Central American migrant children who reach U.S. being sent to Mexico

Rhina Guidos|Nov 3, 2020|2 Min Read

Arturo Rodriguez, wearing a protective mask, poses with a statue St. Jude Thaddeus in Mexico City in late September during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rodriguez credits the saint with curing an injured relative and brings the statue to a monthly celebration in Mexico City, where devotion is strong. (CNS photo/David Agren)

Faith

St. Jude Thaddeus draws immense devotion from Mexico's downtrodden

David Agren|Oct 22, 2020|4 Min Read

(Shutterstock via CNA)

World

Mexico investigating alleged ICE detainee hysterectomies

Catholic News Agency|Sep 23, 2020|3 Min Read

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