CIUDAD EVITA, Argentina (Reuters) - Life has improved in the sprawling suburbs and dirt-poor slums that circle Argentina's capital, and that could be enough to propel first lady Cristina Fernandez ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – After President Javier Milei’s administration decided to cut funds for public works in poor neighborhoods and slums in Argentina, dozens of priests released a letter ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina's capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime. Villa 21-24 in Buenos Aires is ...

The term “slum priest” refers to a group of priests in Argentina who not only minister to the poor, but live among them too. Belay has been a witness to a shootout in the doors of the parish.

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 to "shake things up" in Latin ...

Here, we live off not much: solidarity and part-time jobs," says Alejandra Diaz, who runs the slum's La Poderosa charity, an organization working throughout the city's shantytowns.

The group, which emerged in the late 1960s inspired by the Movement of Priests for the Third World -- a leftist organization that resisted Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship -- has traditionally ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina's capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime.

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 to "shake things up" in Latin ...