Broadly, the three nations persistently harass religious communities through surveillance, threats of imprisonment, arbitrary ...

(The Conversation) — This is the season of patriotism in Latin America as many countries commemorate their independence from colonial powers. From July to September, public plazas in countries from ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Several months after he assumed leadership of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made his first trip overseas. It was back home to Latin America, where the Argentine pontiff celebrated ...

(The Conversation) — Demonstrations in Bolivia in recent weeks have been directed at a seemingly unusual target: the Catholic Church. More than three-fourths of the people in this Andean nation are ...

More Americans are abandoning religion, reducing its claim on their lives, or not taking it up in the first place, than was the case seventeen years ago. Those are the top-line conclusions of a report ...

A Colombian scholar assesses the state of the movement roughly 150 years after Protestant missionaries first arrived. In recent years, the growth of the evangelical movement in Latin America has made ...

Associate Professor of Sociology Gustavo Morello, with a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, has led a team of colleagues from universities in Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay, who interviewed more ...

The head of UN Women argues that, in the face of political setbacks, the region’s feminist movement offers many reasons for ...

A denomination known for its traditional way of life and pacifist convictions has spread out across the region. The well-kept lawns and exquisitely maintained houses in the town of Filadelfia could be ...

After a bribery scandal that took down four presidents and led Congress to dissolve, some Peruvians are putting their faith in an austere religion called the Israelites of the New Universal Pact. As ...