"Please rid us of this corruption and the leaders who have taken us down the wrong paths," prayed Father Hugo Estrada. "We ask that you be with this great nation of Guatemala."

President Otto Perez Molina said that he would not resign and would remain in office.

Fernando Fernande brought toilet paper, soap and food to the Palmasola prison, where his son has been locked up for the past two years.Other families waited outside the gates with wheelbarrows full of everything from sausages to blankets to charcoal for cooking. The supplies, Fernande said, were to

Catholic officials and observers expressed hope the pope's July 8-10 visit to Bolivia offers the opportunity to turn the page on nearly 10 years of mutual suspicions, public criticisms and the church losing its previously privileged position in a newly approved constitution.

Jesuit Father Luis Espinal was returning from a movie in March 1980 when he was intercepted, tortured and killed. His remains were found in a landfill. Paramilitaries were blamed for his death. Outrage ensued, with an estimated 70,000 Bolivians attending his burial in La Paz."I think it probabl

Belfries and spires poke the sky in this ramshackle city of impromptu developments, rutted roads and brick buildings, billed by locals as one of the highest in the world at more than 13,000 feet above sea level.In the Villa Adela neighborhood, an onion dome towers over the Cuerpo de Cristo parish&md

'Whether we want to accept it or not, Cuba is undergoing a transformation.'

Some Mexicans used Ash Wednesday to rebuke authorities who insist that 43 students were kidnapped, killed and then had their bodies burned in a garbage dump and ashes tossed in a river.Classmates and families of the missing students reject the explanation of what happened. So on Feb. 18, in predomin

Dressed in green T-shirts and clutching statues of Our Lady of Guadalupe covered in plastic, a group of pilgrims from Guerrero prayed, posed for photos in front of the basilica dedicated to the national patroness, set out on a march to their hometown in the hills south of Mexico City.They described

The remains of a missionary priest missing for months were recovered from a mass grave in the southern state of Guerrero, adding to the horror of the crimes and killings in a region now notorious for the disappearance and possible deaths of 43 teacher trainees.Ugandan Comboni Father John Ssenyondo w