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Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV says there should be no tolerance for abuse of any kind in Catholic Church

June 21, 2025 at 5:55 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse – sexual, spiritual or abuse of authority -- and called for...

In this photo released by the Diocese of Chulucanas, Bishop Robert Prevost leads the celebration anniversary of the Diocese in Chulucanas, Peru, Aug. 12, 2024. (Diocese of Chulucanas via AP)

Robert Prevost known as the ‘saint of the north’ in Peru for his closeness to poor

May 9, 2025 at 8:14 p.m.

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud...

In this photo released by the Diocese of Chulucanas, Bishop Robert Prevost leads an anniversary celebration of the Diocese in Chulucanas, Peru, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Diocese of Chulucanas via AP)

Rejoicing Peruvians see Pope Leo XIV as one of their own after his many years in Peru

May 9, 2025 at 11:59 a.m.

Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country and who they see as one of their own was elected...

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, overcame a taboo against a US pontiff

May 9, 2025 at 2:13 p.m.

Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nomination.

FILE – The Bolaños children, from left, Sebastian, Kamila and Miguel Angel, from Venezuela, watch videos on a mobile phone outside the bus terminal where they are living with their single mother Keilly and one other sibling, along with other migrants in Villahermosa, Mexico, June 8, 2024. Their mother was captured in the northern state of Juarez, where she said she was beaten by the military in front of her children, loaded on a bus for two days, and left in Villahermosa. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

As fallout surges from Venezuela’s election crisis, the region fears another mass exodus

August 15, 2024 at 8:45 a.m.

President Nicolás Maduro’s contested claim of victory in last month’s election not only threw Venezuela into uncertainty but also spread anxiety from neighboring Colombia to faraway Chile as the region...

Luis Manuel llora en la tumba de su abuela Apolonia Uanampa, quien murió por el nuevo coronavirus, en el cementerio de Nueva Esperanza en las afueras de Lima, Perú, el miércoles 27 de mayo de 2020.

En Perú, familias entierran a más de un muerto por coronavirus

May 28, 2020 at 4:45 p.m.

Los sepultureros resoplaban mientras subían una colina cubierta de niebla cargando un cuerpo en el más extenso cementerio de Perú, adonde se entierran los muertos por el nuevo coronavirus. Era...

In this March 14, 2020 file photo, a Venezuelan woman is carried across a river to Colombia from Venezuela, near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia. Colombian President Ivan Duque ordered the nation's border with Venezuela closed as a coronavirus containment measure.

Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

March 31, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world's most unequal region, where many of Latin America's first cases arrived with members...

Gabriel Barbosa de Flamengo de Brasil tras anotar el segundo gol en la victoria 2-1 ante River Plate de Argentina
en la final de la Copa Libertadores, el sábado 23 de noviembre de 2019, en Lima.

(VIDEO) Flamengo remonta a River en la agonía y alza la Libertadores

November 23, 2019 at 10:41 p.m.

Después de 38 años de su único título continental, Flamengo volvió a proclamarse campeón de la Copa Libertadores de América al vencer 2-1 a River Plate este sábado en Lima,...

Una mujer con un bebé en brazos espera a una de sus hijas antes de entrar a la carpa del circo de Tony Perejil, en la barriada Puente Piedra, en las afueras de Lima.

Malabares para subsistir

May 15, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

Bajo una llovizna ligera, dentro de su remendada carpa y antes de su última función nocturna en Lima, el empresario y payaso José Álvarez cuenta los ingresos de la taquilla:...

The 36-year wait is over. While lacking stars, Peru will be hoping its ability to adapt to different conditions serves it well across Russia

World Cup Countdown: Peru return after 36 years without their captain

December 14, 2018 at 2:19 p.m.

With 22 days left to Russia 2018, 90 Minutes welcomes the returning Peru to the coundtown, 36 years after their last World Cup, but with the absence of their captain...

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