LYON, France (AP) — Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from ...

The first Latin American pope, known for speaking out against social injustice, leaves behind a complicated legacy. View ...

Many recalled his legacy as the first pope from Latin America, and the first Jesuit to reach the pinnacle of church hierarchy.

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

While Argentina imprisons killers for life, Gender CS suggests economic empowerment alone can prevent murders.

The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the ...

While HIV prevalence remains relatively low across much of Latin America and the Caribbean, pockets of the region are facing disproportionately high rates—revealing deep-rooted disparities in ...