WATCH: Total solar eclipse darkens skies across South America
The eclipse will sweep along a path extending 6,800 miles across open waters to Chile and Argentina.
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Families of Colombia’s disappeared endure ‘never-ending grief’ and a wrenching search
In Colombia, an estimated 83,000 people have been forcibly disappeared since 1958. But peace accords between the government and the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group, in 2016 mandated that finding the missing was a necessary step toward reconciliation. Special…
Vatican investigating reports of Chilean priests abusing nuns
The scandal at the Institute of the Good Samaritan was revealed publicly in an investigative report by Chilean national television earlier this year at the height of outrage over how Chilean Catholic hierarchy covered up decades of sexual abuse of…
Pope defrocks 2 more Chilean priests accused of sex abuse
To show greater transparency about how he's responding to the church's global sex abuse crisis, the pontiff publicly explained why they were removed.
Trump welcomed Chilean president Sebastian Pinera days after he imposed financial sanctions on members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's inner circle and suggested Maduro could be ousted in a military coup as a way to restore the country's democracy. Tens…
The Vatican said Francis was doing so for "the good of the church."…
The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis is expected to meet with victims of sexual abuse during his weekend visit to Ireland and speak out about the problem.
Pope Francis announced this week he would accept the resignation of three Chilean bishops, in an ongoing scandal that has grown into a national crisis. Nearly 80 Catholic clergy across the country have been accused of sexually abusing minors over…
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the bishop at the center of Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal and two others, launching a purge of a Catholic Church that has lost its credibility under an avalanche of accusations of abuse and…
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