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Miguel Uribe Turbay, Colombian senator and presidential hopeful; and Cardinal Luis José Rueda, archbishop of Bogotá. / Credit: Luigi Venegas (CC BY-SA 4.0); Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Lima Newsroom, Jun 12, 2025 / 16:38 pm (CNA).

Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, a husband and father, was gravely wounded on June 7 in Bogotá when a 15-year-old boy shot him in the head.

Scene of the walled city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The oldest governor’s mansion under the American flag, La Fortaleza, is top right. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Jun 12, 2025 / 15:17 pm (CNA).

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement increases its raids and deportations in Puerto Rico, several of the island’s bishops have expressed alarm.

Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the “La Bestia” train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock

Puebla, Mexico, Jun 11, 2025 / 17:44 pm (CNA).

The Catholic bishops of neighboring Mexico are reacting to the wave of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that are provoking unrest in various cities.

Archbishop Fernando Chomali of Santiago, Chile. / Credit: Marco Mancini/ACI Stampa

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

While the government of Chile expedites pro-abortion and euthanasia legislation, the Catholic Church in that country remains steadfast in its defense of life.

Mass in a Catholic church in Cotia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 25, 2020. / Credit: wtondossantos/Shuttestock

Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jun 9, 2025 / 13:30 pm (CNA).

The percentage of Brazilians who identify as Catholic fell to 56.75% in 2022, a reduction of 8.4% compared with 2010.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states, meets with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on June 5, 2025, in Cuba. / Credit: Vatican Secretariat of State

Vatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 11:53 am (CNA).

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states, spoke Thursday at the Palacio de la Revolución, the house of the Cuban government.

Chapel built on the remains of the old church where, in 1649, the apparition of the Child Jesus took place in a consecrated host in Eten, Peru. Currently, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Chiclayo but is administered by the so-called Multisectoral Committee of Eten City. / Credit: Diego López Marina/EWTN News

Lima Newsroom, Jun 5, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

In 2019, Robert Prevost, as bishop of Chiclayo, initiated a process with the Vatican for the recognition of a 17th-century Eucharistic miracle in Peru.

Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 2, 2025 / 18:07 pm (CNA).

Cardinal Francis Leo called on the faithful to honor the most Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout June rather than “using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine revelation.”

El Salvador's massive Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT, by its Spanish acronym). / Credit: Courtesy of Office of the President of El Salvador, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, May 31, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).

El Salvador’s Catholic bishops have published a pastoral letter warning of the risk of turning the Central American nation into a "large international prison."

Pope Leo XIV with Peruvian registrars this Friday, May 30, at the Vatican. / Credit: Courtesy of Andina/Peru News Agency

Lima Newsroom, May 30, 2025 / 19:23 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV has updated his personal information for a new Peruvian national identity document.