SÃO PAULO – Facing opposition from both the Brazilian bishops and the National Association of Catholic Education, conservative Christian groups are pressuring President Jair Bolsonaro and lawmakers to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of children's rights organizations protest against cases of clerical child abuse in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on May 25, 2023.

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

For more than two years, the Catholic Church in Belém has been preparing for this moment. While the South American country hosts the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP30, in Belém, ...

The emergence of so-called Catholic influencers on social media has led a group of researchers in Brazil to ask if evangelization is even possible in digital environments. As they try to decipher some ...

SÃO PAULO – A new and largely unpredented “Catholic bloc” in the Senate in Brazil, the largest Catholic country on earth, has been presented by its founders as a way to defend Catholic “moral and ...

"A real Christian votes for Lula!" a backer of the ex-president shouts at a voter for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro at a Catholic church in Rio de Janeiro, also serving as a polling station. The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Before about 500 worshippers at an evangelical Christian church in a working-class Rio neighborhood, Pastor Abner Ferreira works himself into a frenzy describing the power of God to ...

Pope John Paul II was the first pontiff ever to visit Brazil, and he was hugely popular here. But each time he visited his adoring flock, he came in the knowledge that his Church was losing followers ...