A visit to the pope’s old haunts.
Latin America
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Shelter in Bolivia empowers young female victims of abuse
The Bolivia Child Welfare Agency estimated that in 2014, there were 14,000 cases of rape of children and women nationally.
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Police are killing poor civilians in Brazil’s favelas. The church offers protection.
The increasing number of fatal acts of police are among the emerging concerns addressed by the Pastoral of Favelas, an archdiocesan commission created 42 years ago to respond to the needs of Rio’s slum dwellers.
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Meet the Knight of Columbus who is bringing more than clean water to Guatemalans
Wells of Hope also is building homes for those in the community.
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After the LeBarón family massacre, can Mexico’s López Obrador stop the violence?
Mr. LeBarón, the family’s spokesperson, said he hopes he can channel the grief and anger over the killings into a broad social movement. “We want to unite the whole country. We want a social movement, not a political one,” he said.
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U.S. Christian Brother kept ‘28-hour days’ to help indigenous Guatemalans
Blessed Miller was beatified Dec. 7 in Huehuetenango, where he was remembered as a martyr for education.
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Salvadoran bishop: Without justice, it’s hard to heal
El Salvador may have signed peace accords in 1992, he said, but there’s a lot of hurt that remains because justice has been elusive.
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The Legacy of ‘La Virgen del Tepeyac,’ a play about Our Lady of Guadalupe
The story of “La Virgen del Tepeyac” is about the birth of a people.
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Was there a coup in Bolivia? After Evo Morales, what’s next?
Was Mr. Morales’s departure from La Paz the result of a coup? Or was the president’s removal the result of a more or less defensible process?
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Nicaraguans in U.S. aim to draw attention to country’s violence
Following the bloodshed, the country’s Catholic bishops attempted to dialogue with the government.