A ferocious campaign against the Catholic Church. Priests imprisoned and…
01 Apr 2025, Dossier April 2025
In the northern tip of Colombia and Venezuela, an indigenous…
01 Apr 2025, Culture April 2025
Seven years have passed since the protests against the regime.…
01 Apr 2025, Dossier April 2025
Change of the constitution. The introduction of a co-presidency. Total…
01 Apr 2025, Dossier April 2025
Modest growth. A dramatic increase in remittances. Over a million…
01 Apr 2025, Dossier April 2025
He was a parish priest in San Cristóbal de Las…
01 Mar 2025, Churches March 2025
The ancient art of weaving continues to be the heart…
01 Mar 2025, Culture March 2025
The Ayoreo are an ethnic group living in eastern Bolivia.…
01 Feb 2025, Culture February 2025
The Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec linking the…
01 Feb 2025, News February 2025
Native music is very important for the cultural and spiritual…
01 Jan 2025, Culture January 2025
Migration control, drug trafficking, authoritarian governments and trade imbalances will…
01 Jan 2025, Opinion & Comment
Successive governments have failed to improve the political and economic…
01 Dec 2024, Dossier December 2024
Peasant communities of indigenous origin see the land not as…
01 Dec 2024, Culture December 2024
The new progressive executive is the spokesperson of ‘los nadies’,…
01 Dec 2024, Dossier December 2024
With December, the decade (2015-2024) dedicated by the United Nations…
01 Dec 2024, Dossier December 2024
The constitution and laws should protect their rights. In reality,…
01 Dec 2024, Dossier December 2024
The small villages of the Tarahumara Indians in northern Mexico…
01 Nov 2024, Churches November 2024
A place where you can feel at home, welcomed and…
01 Nov 2024, Churches November 2024
The Ayoreos are an ethnic group that live in the…
01 Nov 2024, Culture November 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is the heir apparent of Amlo, the…
01 Oct 2024, News October 2024
The country is preparing for the next presidential elections which…
01 Sep 2024, Dossier September 2024
Despite the privileged position it enjoys and the fertility of…
01 Sep 2024, Dossier September 2024
Significant reforms. Opening up to new markets. The presidency of…
01 Sep 2024, Dossier September 2024
For indigenous peoples, the earth is like a mother who…
01 Sep 2024, Churches September 2024
The affirmation of the current President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou,…
01 Sep 2024, Dossier September 2024
Two young lay Comboni missionaries talk to us about their…
01 Aug 2024, Churches August 2024
The occupation of the country implemented by Washington opened the…
01 Aug 2024, Dossier August 2024
The year 2017 saw the end of the MINUSTAH special…
01 Aug 2024, Dossier August 2024
It is the poorest and most unfortunate country in Latin…
01 Aug 2024, Dossier August 2024
Haiti today finds itself in an extremely precarious situation. The…
01 Aug 2024, Dossier August 2024
If you take a walk at sunset along the northeastern…
01 Jul 2024, Culture July 2024
June 24th marks one of Peru's main holidays: Inti Raymi,…
01 Jun 2024, Culture June 2024
In the Prelacy of Labrea, in the state of Amazonas,…
01 Jun 2024, Churches June 2024
On the border between Mexico and the United States, a…
01 Apr 2024, News April 2024
Sister Paësie Phillipe had been a missionary in Haiti for…
01 Apr 2024, Churches April 2024
After the catastrophic war against the Triple Alliance, the country…
01 Mar 2024, Dossier March 2024
Paraguay is a country with a strong rural vocation where…
01 Mar 2024, Dossier March 2024
The country has a population of 7,353,000 inhabitants, with a…
01 Mar 2024, Dossier March 2024
The ancient capital of Guatemala, a baroque jewel among the…
01 Mar 2024, Churches March 2024
A landlocked country with almost all its rivers navigable. The…
01 Mar 2024, Dossier March 2024
Last January it recalled the 30th anniversary of the North…
01 Mar 2024, Opinion & Comment
The Chacobos are an indigenous people living on the banks…
01 Feb 2024, Culture February 2024
The marambiré is the most authentic African ritual of all…
01 Jan 2024, Culture January 2024
A Nicaraguan mask play that defies the arrogance of the…
01 Jan 2024, Culture January 2024
The Q'Owaku ritual is performed as a blessing for workers…
01 Dec 2023, Culture December 2023
There are more than 120 communities distributed on the islands…
01 Dec 2023, Churches December 2023
In Colombia, the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra has brought together the…
01 Nov 2023, Culture November 2023
The Chacobos are a small indigenous people living on the…
01 Nov 2023, Culture November 2023
Repression, kidnappings, intimidation. The Catholic Church under siege. But ‘the hearts of the people resist’. We received this letter from a religious sister who writes under a pseudonym for security reasons. It is not easy to…
Masato is the typical and preferred drink of the Asheninka, the Shipios and other indigenous groups of the Peruvian Amazon. Masato is a fermented drink based on yucca, which is a big tuber also known as cassava, its ancestral name…
According to the estimates of the last census, carried out in 2022, the Dominican Republic has a population of 10,695,000. Of these 3/4, equal to 73% are mestizos, 16% white and 11% black. The other minor…
An indigenous ethnic group, the Ashaninka live in the central forest of the Ucayali department in the Atalaya province of eastern Peru. The children learn not only from practice but also through feeling and listening. The Ashaninka…
The economy of the Dominican Republic is a liberalized, open, and strongly export-oriented economy. For about a decade, it has been experiencing a phase of expansion, becoming one of the fastest growing in Latin America…
A painful story that continues today. Internal tensions have favoured the spread of corruption. Difficult union with Haiti. Privileged relationship with the United States. Increasing tourism. The Dominican Republic is located on Hispaniola Island which it…
The Dominican Republic is a presidential republic based on the system of representative democracy with a Head of State directly elected by the people every 4 years. The president exercises executive power through a government directly…
What is the importance of time to the Asheninka, an Amazonian people of western Peru? Let's find out. In the Amazonian world, time is marked by elements that can be stars, plants, animals, and others. The…
To a large extent, the ancestral medicine of the Ashaninka, an indigenous Amazonian ethnic group that lives in western Peru, revolves around the Ayahuasca ceremony, the name that is currently used to name an ancestral…
Being both a priest and a journalist represents the two most dangerous missions ever. This is the experience of Father Omar Sotelo Aguilar, an energetic Mexican priest of the Society of San Paolo who for…
On 21 June, the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, Andean cultures celebrate the new year. Fire, music, fruit and corn are the symbols. And open palms to thank and welcome. On 21 June, the winter…
During the month of June, various traditional festivals are celebrated, including Inti Raymi, thanksgiving to the sun and the earth, for the abundance of crops. The history of these festivals dates back to the Inca empire…
“We want to create a federation of international journalistic organisations that collaborate in this effort, starting from the global South,” says Filipino journalist and 2022…
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Once upon a time, there was a leopard. He had a huge walnut tree that was full of nuts. Stingy as he was, however, he forbade…
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Three young Comboni missionaries from three continents share their vocation stories and missionary experiences. Fr Victor Cunanan Parungao from the Philippines reflects on 15 years of…
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