How the Catholic Church is responding to Venezuela’s refugee crisis. Antonio De Loera-Brust February 18, 2019. The city of Cúcuta, Colombia, lies on the western bank of the Tachira River, ...

The Bishops also called for justice in the country. “As pastors,” they said, “we exhort the governmental authorities to ...

Venezuela’s church has played many roles in the past, and soon she will be asked to fill a new role, laying another layer of her story as the inevitable concludes in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s Catholic Church on Friday blasted President Nicolás Maduro for trying to impose a “dictatorship” by pushing forward an unpopular plan to overhaul the constitution. Speaking at a ...

The second issue driving communities to evangelical churches might be the Catholic Church’s priest shortage, which means fewer faith leaders are now serving larger groups of people, said Smilde.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Relations between Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and the Catholic Church reached a low ebb in early August, after the Vatican strongly criticized the socialist ...

The Catholic Church in Venezuela is stepping up its criticism of Nicolás Maduro’s leftist government and calling for him to release political prisoners, schedule congressional elections and ...

On April 2, 2024, a Catholic Bishop was deported from Mexico to Venezuela. Bishops attend an open-air mass by Pope Francis in Ecatepec, Mexico City, in 2016. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images ...

The socialist dictator, who once was very close to the Church, became more antagonistic after his 2000 re-election, but he reportedly reconciled prior to his death. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

Bishops in Venezuela recently called out the government in a letter written by the bishops' conference after the group's July 2019 gathering.