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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s frequent condemnation of the conservative elite and neoliberal technocrats echoed in his daily morning conferences during his six years as president. He ...