Researchers reported that physicians and others told them that Puerto Rico's government did not notify them about federal guidelines on how to document deaths related to a major disaster.

Honduran authorities have put the trial for the murder of an environmental and indigenous rights activist at risk by refusing to analyze and share key evidence.

Mollie Tibbetts's life was celebrated during a memorial Mass Aug. 26.

The longtime Arizona Republican senator, reared in the Episcopal Church, attended a Southern Baptist megachurch in his later years. He viewed himself as a Christian but had “a distrust of the religious right and a faith that is too public, too political.”

Although Latin America has advanced since a 1968 church conference first declared a "preferential option for the poor," a number of troubling signs threaten the progress made, both socially and religiously.