Four years into their mission, the Texas Army National Guard continues to hold the line along the U.S.-Mexico border by land and water. Soldiers spend their days installing and repairing miles of ...

Colombia is battling its worst security crisis in a decade after a series of guerrilla attacks in the north of the country have left at least 80 people dead and displaced 36,000 others.

Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

Catholic advocacy groups, southern border dioceses and the U.S. bishops' conference are expressing deep concern after ...

For a long time, Venezuela was one of the most-dangerous countries in the world. In recent years, safety has slightly improved, in part because the population is too poor to steal from. But crime ...

Bishop Anthony Ji Weizhong is the second Chinese bishop to be ordained since the Vatican in October renewed its agreement on ...

director of the Center for Political Studies at Andrés Bello Catholic University. Further reading: Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro isolated amid unveiled opposition The problem is that neither ...

Venezuelan police on Wednesday shot dead one of the country's most notorious gang leaders, who imposed a reign of terror on one of Latin America's biggest shantytowns, Interior Minister Diosdado ...

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Whatever conflict may exist between them, thousands of Dominicans and Haitians gather as one each year on Jan. 21 in ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.