David Agren writes for OSV News from Mexico City.
Priests working in the shanty towns surrounding Buenos Aires have denounced cuts to a fund for programs in poor communities, calling it a "step backwards" during an economic crisis.
The warning followed a Feb. 26 decision by the government of Argentina's libertarian President
Mexico's two main presidential candidates have met with Pope Francis in the prelude to the country's election campaigns, marking a further retreat from the country's previously strictly secular political culture as they court voters in the predominantly Catholic country.
Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate for
Argentina's President Javier Milei has disavowed a proposal from own party to scrap a 2020 law decriminalizing abortion in the South American country.
Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni told reporters Feb. 8 that the proposal -- introduced the night before in congress -- "was
Argentina's bishops expressed concern over rampant hunger and government cuts to parish soup kitchens, warning libertarian President Javier Milei that "food cannot be a variable in economic adjustments."
"In our country no one should go hungry as it's the blessed land of bread,"
Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán of David, Panama, was found safe after disappearing for approximately 48 hours, an absence that provoked a police search for the prelate and concern for his well-being.
The cardinal, who turns 80 Feb. 24, reappeared on the afternoon
The Catholic peace group Pueblo Creyente marched through the colonial city of San Cristóbal de las Casas Jan. 26 to remember the late Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who promoted a vision of an autochthonous church in the largely Indigenous state of Chiapas.
The
Kidnappings in Mexico have become a true plague, with many migrants falling victims as criminal groups and drug cartels -- often in cahoots with police, soldiers and immigration officials -- target people without papers. Victims are often abducted while riding intercity buses,
Six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne were kidnapped Jan. 19 while traveling on a bus in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious. Other passengers on the bus also were taken in the
The drownings of three Mexican migrants in the Rio Grande has deepened a jurisdictional dispute between the U.S. federal and Texas state governments over responding to the wave of migrants and asylum-seekers irregularly crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
But a Dominican brother working on
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile along with 18 imprisoned churchmen as the Nicaraguan government expelled its most prominent critic, whose presence behind bars bore witness to the Sandinista regime descent into totalitarianism, along