Most people in the Latin America-Caribbean region are Christian. The region's unaffiliated population grew rapidly since 2010, according to Pew Research Center.

In parts of Latin America, a region characterized by prevalent and profound religiosity, simply holding religious beliefs could be enough to obliterate one's civil and political rights.

The Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America—close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian ...

Through a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Fr. Morello led a team of colleagues from universities in Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay, who interviewed more than 250 individuals in three Latin ...

However, it never gained traction in Latin America and faded in the U.S. during World War II. Recent shift Latin America’s ambivalence toward holidays to commemorate the colonizers has taken a ...

Even worse, the church lacks the ecclesiastical manpower to serve the sheep still within the fold. The ratio of priests to laymen in Latin America is 1 to 5,600 (in the U.S. it is 1 to 785).

More than 500 women and men religious, and some lay Catholics, attended the IV Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Religious Life Nov. 24-26 to share experiences in consecrated life. (GSR ...

In a meeting of women and men religious from Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn proposed a "new beginning" that would include groups of consecrated life from all ...

Latin America is home to the largest Catholic population in the world—more than 25% of all Catholics globally live on this continent. Here, faith has shaped not only spiritual life but also ...

First Latin American Forum on Journalism and Religion held at BYU. Professionals and journalists were part of a forum at BYU. The BYU School of Communications, BYU International Center for Law and ...

Latin America Has a Rich Tradition of Religious Pendants Collectors say that relicarios, made from whatever the artisan had at hand, are often overlooked in the study of colonial-era art. A ...