A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the global Catholic population. The election of the Argentinian Pope Francis in 2013 brought fresh hope for a new ...

Pope Francis was the first Latin American—and the first person from the Western Hemisphere—to be elected to the papacy. He captured the attention of Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his ...

The death of Pope Francis marks the end of an era for the Catholic Church in Latin America. As the first Latin American pontiff, his legacy in the region is complex, according to analysts ...

It was back home to Latin America, where the Argentine pontiff celebrated Mass before a crowd of 3 million people on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. The message that day seemed clear ...

As archbishop of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who would take the name Francis when he became pope in 2013, came up within the Latin American bishops’ conference, known as CELAM. That ...

Tegucigalpa, (EFE).- In a clear message of regional unity and resistance to US economic and migration policies, eleven heads of state from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered Wednesday in ...

Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced the most dramatic decline in birth rates of any region globally since 1950, according to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the ...

When the new installation called “Latin American Art/Arte Latinoamericano” opens May 17, it will include more than 200 artworks from 40 cultures that span more than 4,000 years, from the ...

Prometeo, a Latin American fintech, has launched what it calls "borderless banking" for business-to-business payments between the U.S. and Latin American countries. According to the company, Prometeo ...

[American Morse] code represents Z as ... to the typewriter for the rest of his life, including several keyboard layouts that he determined to be more efficient. He filed a patent ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For a moment on Sunday, the government of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro looked like it ...