BY Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY President Donald Trump’s support among white evangelicals has dropped nearly 10 percentage points since taking office in January 2017, according to new data from the Pew Research Center released […]
Source: Reuters BY Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 152 Catholic priests in Mexico have been suspended in the past nine years for sexual abuse against minors, Mexico’s […]
Source: The Conversation In a recent tweet, President Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” […]
Source: BBC News Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a witness has testified. Alex Cifuentes, who says […]
Source: BBC News Archaeologists in Mexico say they have made an important discovery, uncovering a temple to Xipe Tótec – the pre-Hispanic “Flayed lord”. Historically, throughout the region, priests paid […]
Source: BBC News An eight-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in US government custody, officials say, the second migrant child to die in US detention this month. The border agency […]
Source: Religion News Service By Irving Cabrera Torres AMOZOC, Mexico (RNS) — It’s known as the town of the Nativities, or los nacimientos. For more than a century, Amozoc, in central […]
Source: Associated Press By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Archdiocese of Santa Fe announced Thursday it will soon be filing for bankruptcy protection, as the Catholic church […]
Source: Reuters By Oscar Lopez MEXICO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A bill passed this week in Mexico’s Senate granting same-sex couples equal social security benefits as heterosexuals now moves to […]
A dozen buses of Mexican riot police waited along the highway but took no action to stop the caravan. Karla Zabludovsky BuzzFeed News Reporter Reporting From Tapachula, Mexico Posted on […]
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Baja California are investigating the apparent slaying of a Roman Catholic priest in […]
Source: The New York Times By Geoffrey Giller PÁTZCUARO, MEXICO — Atop the highest hill in this lakeside town sits the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Salud, built in […]
Source: Samad Ghori of Albania One of the Muslim groups with a large presence in the state of Chiapas is the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Ibrahim Chechev, an imam from San Cristóbal, told Sputnik of the community’s origin and prospects. Today the Ahmadiyya community is made up of 60 families and […]
Source: Sputnik International Few would be surprised at seeing a girl wearing a hijab in Mexico’s San Cristóbal, as for more than 20 years there have been Muslim communities living […]
Source: The Guardian By David Agren in Mexico City In both of Mexico’s last two presidential elections, Julieta Brambila voted for Andrés Manuel López Obrador because she supported his plans to tackle corruption, curb […]
Source: CNN By Emanuella Grinberg and Fidel Gutierrez The entire police force of a Mexican town in the state of Michoacán is being questioned in the assassination of a mayoral candidate, the […]
Source: BBC News A US border security chief says he has temporarily stopped launching criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally enter the country with children. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) […]
Source: BBC News Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters in Texas the prosecution referrals were suspended last week. He said it followed an order last week […]
Source: Associated Press By DAVID CRARY Even as many religious organizations, from liberal to conservative, denounced the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, some major […]
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME For more, visit TIME Health. As the White House doubles down on a zero-tolerance immigration policy that has led to the forced separation of families, medical experts are sounding alarms about […]
