Mexico leads Latin America in poverty reduction, owing primarily to recent minimum wage increases, according to a United ...

In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia, to challenge the Roman Catholic Church to expand its definition of charity to include the advocacy of social justice for the ...

(Recasts with Pope's speech; new throughout) By Philip Pullella and Terry Wade APARECIDA, Brazil, May 13 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict decried the growing gap between rich and poor in Latin America on ...

A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the global Catholic population. The election of the Argentinian Pope Francis in 2013 brought fresh hope for a new flourishing ...

The world’s 1.4bn people without a bank account are missing out. They lack the security it provides compared with informal ways to save and the benefits of participation in the formal economy, all of ...

Latin America and the Caribbean has made slow but consistent progress addressing the imbalances induced by the pandemic in an international environment that is just now showing signs of stabilizing.

TO SEE REALITY in the Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro, consider the drone’s-eye view (pictured). A razor-straight line divides lush gardens and smooth clay tennis courts from a mess of corrugated ...