How evangelism is growing in a poor, troubled town in Brazil
Brazilians Turn To Evangelical Church In Rural Town Wracked By Drugs And Poverty Source: NPR By Philip Reeves To the outsider, there is a beguiling charm and tranquility about the […]
Chile’s national prosecutor requesting Vatican sex abuse files
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s national prosecuting authority said on Wednesday that it had asked the government to submit a formal request to the Vatican for […]
Catholic Church Faces Reckoning in Chile as Sex Abuse Scandal Widens
Source: The New York Times By Pascale Bonnefoy SANTIAGO, Chile — The 20 men and women rose quietly from their pews during Mass at the Cathedral of Santiago one day last […]
Argentine doctors protest legal abortion ahead of key vote
Source: Associated Press By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A campaign to expand legal abortions in the homeland of Pope Francis is bitterly dividing Argentines — and increasingly […]
‘There’s going to be a raid’: A Chilean prosecutor forces Catholic Church to give up secrets
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing, Cassandra Garrison SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Two special envoys sent by Pope Francis to investigate a child sex abuse scandal in Chile were meeting priests and […]
Chile summons Roman Catholic cardinal in sex abuse case
Source: Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A cardinal has been summoned to appear in a Chilean court as the scandal over sex abuse by priests and others tied to […]
Chilean prosecutors probing 36 claims of Catholic Church sex abuse
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing, Cassandra Garrison (Reuters) – The Chilean civil authorities are investigating 36 accusations of sexual abuse against bishops, clerics and lay workers in the Roman Catholic […]
Trinidad and Tobago’s religious leaders call on government to uphold anti-LGBT laws
Source: Religion News Service BY Melissa Williams-Sambrano PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (RNS) — When he was 18, Kerwyn Jordan came out to his family and close friends, and he’s been open […]
Chile bishop resists giving abuse report to prosecutors
Source : Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The head of the Chilean Roman Catholic Church’s abuse prevention committee says he will not deliver a report on sex abuse committed […]
Apple is helping bring education to girls in Brazil
Source: CNN By Heather Kelly Forty students learning how to code in a classroom on the third floor of Pontifical Catholic University in downtown Rio de Janierio got an unusual […]
Rio city council votes against opening impeachment of mayor
Source: Associated Press By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The city council voted Thursday against opening impeachment proceedings against Rio Mayor Marcelo Crivella, rejecting accusations he […]
Chilean police make first arrest in church abuse scandal
Source: Reuters By Fabian Cambero, Aislinn Laing (Reuters) – Chilean police have arrested a former Roman Catholic Church official after he confessed earlier this year to sexually abusing at least five […]
2 more Chilean bishops are out as pope cleans house
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignations of two more Chilean bishops, the latest fallout from a sex abuse scandal […]
Vatican promises to hear more abuse complaints in Chile
Source: Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A papal envoy looking into clerical sexual abuse is leaving Chile, but he says the Vatican will continue collecting testimony from people who […]
Trinidad and Tobago Catholics aid Venezuelan migrants amid government crackdown
Source: Religion News Service BY Melissa Williams-Sambrano PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (RNS) — Yesenia Gonzalez immigrated to Trinidad and Tobago, the twin island Caribbean nation, from Venezuela 40 […]
Papal envoy asks forgiveness in divided Chilean diocese
Source: Associated Press OSORNO, Chile (AP) — A papal emissary asked forgiveness Sunday from Roman Catholics in a region of Chile where people bitterly protested a now-resigned bishop who had […]
Argentina lawmakers in marathon abortion debate
Source: BBC News Lawmakers in Argentina spent Wednesday afternoon and the entire night debating whether to allow women to have abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. A vote […]
Chilean police raid Catholic Church offices amid abuse probe
Source: Associated Press By PATRICIA LUNA SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Police and prosecutors raided Roman Catholic Church offices in two Chilean cities Wednesday looking for files, investigative reports and documents […]
Vatican’s top sex abuse investigators promise action in Chile
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The Vatican’s top sex abuse investigators arrived in Chile on Tuesday saying they had orders from Pope Francis to ensure the Roman […]
‘My body, my choice’: Argentina moves closer to legal abortion with key vote
Source: The Guardian BY Elizabeth Sulis Kim Even as calls for women in Argentina to be given the legal right to abortion have grown louder on its cities’ streets, a change in the […]