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A U.S. delegation brought the concerns of the country's Hispanic Catholics to the heart of the church: the threshold of the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica.

MONTERREY, Mexico (CNS) — With his priestly robes and clean-cut appearance, Fr. Jose Luis Guerra hardly looks the part of a gangster. Yet the recently ordained priest hits the streets of a scruffy suburb of this northern Mexican city with his own posse, the Gang of Christ, which takes catechism classes and Christ’s witness out of the parish and into a peripheral place occupied by young men on the margins of society.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (CNS) — To chants of “No more war,” the Colombian government and Marxist rebels signed an agreement to end Latin America’s last armed conflict, which the Vatican’s secretary of state called “the start of a process of positive change for the country.”

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CNS) — A pharmacy in Olympia, Washington, loses its court challenge to a state law requiring the owners to violate their religious beliefs by supplying emergency contraceptives.

By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A former slave who spent her days caring for the poor and a Jesuit missionary...

A priest abducted from his parish residence in the Mexican state of Michoacan was found dead, the Archdiocese of Morelia confirmed Sept. 25. He was the third priest murdered in Mexico within days.

Last year, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted called men of the diocese to action with his apostolic exhortation, “Into the Breach.” Since then, this movement has spread throughout the diocese and beyond.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Journalists must not foment fear when covering issues or events such as forced migration due to war or famine, Pope Francis said.

In response to Jesus' thirst on the cross, Pope Francis said, Christians are challenged to hear the cry of the poor, suffering and the innocent victims of war.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis donned a green hospital gown over his white cassock and entered the neonatal unit of a Rome hospital, peering in the incubators, making the sign of the cross and encouraging worried parents.