Tag: Brazil

SÃO PAULO -- The Aug. 9 passenger plane crash in the city of Vinhedo, Brazil killed all 62 on board, greatly touching different Catholic...

SÃO PAULO -- The severe health care and hunger crisis affecting the Yanomami indigenous people in Roraima state prompted the Brazilian church to coordinate...

SAO PAULO -- The Brazilian bishops' conference has come under fire from some of its more conservative members since it announced this year's Fraternity...

SAO PAULO — Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the pan-Amazonian synod surprised many church workers who live in the region and elicited a range...

SAO PAULO — Church representatives working with immigrants and refugees criticized Brazil’s planned withdrawal from a global agreement to safeguard migrant people. The Brazilian bishops’...

SAO PAULO -- A gunman opened fire inside a Brazilian church, killing four people and injuring four others before turning the gun on himself,...

SAO PAULO — Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a Catholic who campaigned to rid the nation of corruption, will take office Jan. 1 with a...

Catholic News Service SAO PAULO — At the beginning of March, Gisela Gomez, 36, gathered a few belongings, said goodbye to her 17- and 15-year-old...

Catholic News Service SAO PAULO -- A priest connected with the Brazilian bishops' Pastoral Land Commission was arrested and charged with extortion and money laundering. Father...

Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- The idea of exceptionally ordaining older married men of proven virtue to celebrate the Eucharist in isolated Catholic communities...