Nearly 6 million children and young people in Latin America will fall into poverty by 2030 because of climate change's impact ...

In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia, to challenge the Roman Catholic Church to expand its definition of charity to include the advocacy of social justice for the ...

June 4 (UPI) --Latin America is facing an escalating education crisis as school dropout rates continue to climb, affecting not only the region's poorest countries but also those with historically ...

The World Bank Group announced the appointment of Susana Cordeiro Guerra as Vice President for the Latin America and the ...

Faced with a slowing global economy and rising debts, many developing-country governments may be tempted to scale back anti-poverty programmes. That would be a grave ...

A report from the World Bank brings a renewed focus to the impact of organized crime on economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the cyclical relationship between poverty ...

A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the global Catholic population. The election of the Argentinian Pope Francis in 2013 brought fresh hope for a new flourishing ...