Venezuelan migrants and refugees have ended up mostly in nearby countries like Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where governments have struggled to provide them with basic services.

“The pope is an Argentinian concerned for his fatherland and for his people. He loves the Argentinians very much.”

Catholics who work in the Amazon say members of small, isolated villages believe the church could be more present in their lives if it allowed the ordination of married men.

A visit to the pope’s old haunts.

The Bolivia Child Welfare Agency estimated that in 2014, there were 14,000 cases of rape of children and women nationally.

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.