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 ...

As slum priests, we collect donations among Catholics and from the government and distribute to the people in need in the neighborhood, which is a rising group,” he told Crux.

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 ...

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 ...

About one-third of the world's urban dwellers live in slums, and the United Nations estimates that the number of people living in such conditions will double by 2030 as a result of rapid ...

As Argentines prepare to elect their new president Oct. 22, a group of clergy close to Pope Francis launched an unprecedented intervention in the highly charged political atmosphere in the South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...