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Pope Leo XIV meets Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025. Lula holds a book with a black and white photo representing the Asháninka, an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in Brazil and Peru. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

  • Oct 16
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
A woman shouts, “Murderers” in Spanish after Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Matilde Campodonico/AP.)

In a regional first, Uruguay passes a law allowing euthanasia

  • Oct 16
  • Associated Press

Venezuelan Catholics among those quietly celebrating Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado

  • Oct 14
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Brazil: Life week mobilizes Catholics, other Christians

  • Oct 10
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Ecuador: Church groups accompany demonstrators amid tensions between president, Indigenous people

  • Oct 8
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Ex-priest accused of abusing 30 boys finally detained in Uruguay after 18 years

  • Oct 6
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

In Brazil, devotion to St. Michael the Archangel goes mass market

  • Oct 4
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Schwarzenegger defies Trump, backs Vatican’s environment initiative

  • Oct 1
  • Associated Press
Tanaru. (Credit: Vincent Carelli, movie Corumbiara.)

Indigenous Man of the Hole wasn’t the last member of his group, missionaries in Brazil discover

  • Sep 25
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
Juan Antonio López. (Credit: CELAM.)

One year after lay Catholic’s murder in Honduras, Church makes progress in the defense of environmental activists

  • Sep 23
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

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Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

  • Oct 16
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Pope Leo urges world leaders ‘not to look the other way’ in fighting global hunger

  • Oct 16
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Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

  • Oct 16
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Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

  • Oct 16
  • Eduardo Campos Lima