North America

Reconciliation between Canadian society and the country's Indigenous communities is possible, say two new national Indigenous leaders.

Haiti`s new Prime Minister Ariel Henry is pledging his government is working towards holding elections as quickly as possible, to regain stability and democracy, following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

With a disproportionate number of First Nations people among the Downtown Eastside's homeless and drug addicted population, Catholic Street Missionaries hope being visible will help become a bridge and vessel for healing rifts between Indigenous people and the Church.

After migrants were allegedly robbed by police in Mexico, the Jesuit Refugee Service calls for an investigation on the treatment of migrants and refugees in Mexico.

Following some of the biggest anti-government protests Cuba has seen in decades, US bishops have expressed support for the people and for the bishops of the Caribbean nation who have called for a favorable solution through mutual listening.

The Standing Committee for Family and Life of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference highlights the special place of the elderly in Church and society. The message comes in a video for Sunday's Inaugural celebration of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the people of Cuba a week after protests erupted on the island nation.

U.S. theologians and human rights experts on Cuba worried that any repeat of the widespread protests in Cuba on July 11 may be met with a swift, violent set of state-sponsored reactions.

The Christian Liberation Movement in Cuba has called on people to continue to pressure communist authorities to hold a general election.

Cubans born in the past two decades are seeing firsthand state repression and violence not witnessed in their lifetimes as economic woes and a coronavirus pandemic widen in their country, according to a Catholic communications specialist in Cuba.

A series of debilitating crises in recent weeks -- from a surge in COVID-19 cases to the assassination of a president -- has left Haiti reeling again in uncertainty and forced Catholic Relief Services to curtail its outreach efforts.

This time, yes, God willing. This time will be "the beginning of the end."

The Conference of Catholic Religious in Cuba representing men and women religious in the Caribbean nation is supporting the "legitimate and universal right" of Cubans to express grievances with the government in an "orderly and peaceful way in public."

With Cuba's shutdown of the internet and other communications for nearly three days, the world has been mostly in the dark about developments on the island nation since the unprecedented protests in Havana and elsewhere in the country July 11.

U.S. theologians and human rights experts on Cuba worried that any repeat of the widespread protests in Cuba on July 11 may be met with a swift, violent set of state-sponsored reactions.

A team of FBI Agents and officials from the US Department of Homeland Security, but no troops, will be visiting Haiti, which is in crisis and turmoil, following the assassination of its President and wounding of its First Lady. Pope Francis on Sunday said he is praying for the country to resume a journey of peace and harmony.

Pope Francis joins the Haitian Bishops' urgent appeal to criminal ganglords and conflicting parties to depose arms and allow the country to resume a journey of peace and harmony.

An Indigenous rights activist has been killed by a gunman on a motorcycle in southern Mexico, the third organizer to be killed in Mexico in the space of about one month.

Mexico's bishops have expressed dismay with a Supreme Court decision to declare "unconstitutional" laws prohibiting the use of recreational marijuana.

More churches across Canada have been destroyed or damaged by fires that police are describing as suspicious or suspected arson.