The Rev. Numa Molina, a Jesuit priest, has championed the poor for decades. Now, he is a power broker and a confidante of ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - On a recent Sunday morning, several hundred Catholic worshippers were at Mass inside a hillside church of a poor Caracas neighborhood when there was a sudden commotion at the back.

The Venezuelan government is facing increasing pressure to conduct a transparent recount of its July 28 presidential election. According to the government-controlled National Electoral Council, ...

At the conclusion of the 45th Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference (CEV, by its Spanish acronym), the bishops published a statement that included an analysis of the ...

President Maduro appears poised to borrow a page from his fellow socialist autocrats in Nicaragua by going on the warpath against the Catholic church, after a leaked letter from two Venezuelan ...

Figurines depicting physician Jose Gregorio Hernandez are displayed for sale at a church in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, after Pope Francis approved the canonization of the physician ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Venezuelan-born Catholic priest with a valid U.S. religious worker visa was temporarily denied re-entry to the U.S. this week, and was only granted admission following an ...

Venezuelan residents protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government in Medellin, Colombia, May 1, 2019. While protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raged across the ...

A man revered by millions as the "doctor of the poor" will be the first saint from Venezuela after Pope Francis approved a decree Tuesday. A date for the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, ...