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Top aides hit back against rumors of papal death, resignation

Church in the Americas

Church of Saint Francis in Salvador, Brazil. (Credit: Civil Defense of Salvador.)

Collapse of historical church’s ceiling sparks fear of new accidents in Brazil

Feb 21
Eduardo Campos Lima

Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

In his native Argentina, people praying for the health of Pope Francis

Feb 20
Eduardo Campos Lima

Bishop Carlos María Domínguez. (Credit: Diocese of San Rafael.)

Bishop in Argentina resigns for ‘personal’ reasons after 2 years in office

Feb 14
Crux Staff

The Church of Saint Lucy in the city of Anapu, in the Amazonian Pará state in Brazil. (Credit: Facebook.)

Church mural showing Catholic martyrs of land dispute in Brazil covered

Feb 13
Eduardo Campos Lima

In the Para State of Brazil in May 30, 2023. (Credit: Eraldo Perez/AP.)

Latin American Church strategies after Trump’s immigration policies

Feb 6
Eduardo Campos Lima

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center right, meets with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino at the presidential palace in Panama City on Feb. 2, 2025. (Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/Pool, AP.)

As Church stresses Panama’s sovereignty, government promises U.S. it will end deal with China

Feb 3
Crux Staff

Pope Francis greets the superior general of Sodalitium, José David Correa, during a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 30, 2021. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Suppressed Peru group distances itself from critics of pope, papal delegates

Feb 2
Crux Staff

Catholics attend Mass in La Paz, Bolivia. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Abuse survivors hope Justice will be served in Bolivia

Jan 31
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Francis places the red biretta on the head of Cardinal Carlos Castillo, archbishop of Lima, during a Dec. 7 consistory for the creation of new cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Peruvian bishops back pope, accuser of once powerful cardinal

Jan 29
Elise Ann Allen

People displaced by violence in the Catatumbo region, where rebels of the National Liberation Army have been clashing with former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, take shelter at a school in Tibu, Colombia, Jan. 20, 2025. (Credit: Associated Press.)

Colombian region faces unprecedented humanitarian crisis after guerrilla attack

Jan 23
Eduardo Campos Lima