“Families aren’t chains. They are mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, grandmothers, grandfathers and brothers and sisters.”

“It’s not just, ‘I’ll pray for you.’ We need to do something personally for them.”

Catholics are being given a reprieve from that most noxious of American holidays: Valentine’s Day.

Many who may have been considering demonstrating against the Hernández government have been sufficiently intimidated into inaction this week.

Outrage is overflowing onto the streets in many Honduran communities.

There have been warning signs for decades; now South Africa’s second-biggest city is racing to prevent a drought from throttling the economy and causing social unrest.