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Most Latin Americans are Christian, and Catholicism remains the dominant religion. But the exodus from the church continues ...

Growing numbers of Latin Americans are religiously unaffiliated, but belief in God remains high across the region.

Catholics remain the largest religious group in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, while second-largest ...

1. Argentina: Top Safety in the Region 86 out of 5 points, placing the South American country in the 47th position in the ...

Central America and the Caribbean: In the early twentieth century, US marines and naval forces took part in the so-called Banana Wars, occupying or intervening in countries such as Nicaragua, Haiti, ...

From tariff turbulence to a capture in Caracas, Trump 2.0 sharpened Washington's focus on the region. What were major 2025 ...

(RNS) — The survey found the religiously unaffiliated nearly doubled or saw even larger gains in every country.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... On May 14, China scored a major coup in its effort to increase Chinese influence in Latin America. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia ...

Catholicism remains the largest religion in Latin America. In 2024, roughly half of Brazilians (46%) and Chileans (46%) ...

The hunger for a more heavy-handed response to endemic problems has been mounting for years in Latin America. El Salvador ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that, in an overnight operation, U.S. troops captured and spirited the couple out of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. It followed what Trump described as an ...