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Carlo Acutis Becomes First Millennial Saint at Vatican Ceremony Led by Pope Leo XIV

Thousands gathered on Sunday at the Vatican to celebrate the canonization of the first saint from the millennial generation, Italian Carlo Acutis, a teenager...

Costa Rica Bill Sparks Clash Over Church Confession and Child Protection Laws

A controversial bill in Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly has put the Catholic Church and lawmakers at odds over the sanctity of confession versus child...

The Three-Fold Focus of Pope Francis: Reforms, Diplomacy, and Combating Pedo-Criminality

Pope Francis, 86 years old, will mark this March 13 a decade of pontificate. From reforms to diplomacy, passing through the fight against pedocriminality,...

Costa Rican Catholic Church to pay damages to those abused by former priest

The Costa Rican Bishops' Conference and the Archdiocese of San José revealed that an agreement was reached to compensate the victims of sexual abuse...

Benedict XVI: The pope who walked away

Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday aged 95, was the first pope to resign since the Middle Ages after a papacy beset by Church...

Pope Says Ex-pontiff Benedict ‘Very Ill’

Pope Francis said Wednesday that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, is "very ill", and urged people to pray for him before going to be...

Bishop of Tilarán-Liberia asks La Negrita to intercede for the people of Nicaragua

Monsignor Manuel Eugenio Salazar condemned the recent expulsion from Nicaragua of the Missionaries of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and prayed for the Nicaraguan people...

Long hop from Nicaragua to US for frogs and spiders sold as ‘pets’

With great care, Yesenia Talavera transfers a tiny frog from a plant, where it was sleeping, to a plastic container with breathing holes, a...

Guatemalan Catholics resume processions suspended due to the pandemic

Amid solemn music, pyrotechnics and crowds, Catholic parishioners in Guatemala resumed Saturday the processions suspended in 2020 because of the covid-19 pandemic, which has...

Nicaraguans Celebrate Massive Religious Feast -amid pandemic

With folkloric dances such as the "toro huaco", "el güegüense" and a boisterous procession, hundreds of Nicaraguans celebrated Thursday, despite the pandemic, the patron...

Pope cancels New Year’s Nativity visit over Covid fears

Pope Francis has cancelled his traditional New Year's Eve visit to the Nativity scene in St Peter's Square over concerns of spreading coronavirus among...

Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu dies at 90

South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country's moral compass, died on Sunday aged 90, sparking an outpouring of tributes for...

Pope urges dialogue amid pandemic isolation

Pope Francis on Saturday urged dialogue on both personal and political levels as he celebrated a second Christmas under the shadow of a coronavirus...

Pope calls for humility in Christmas Eve mass

Pope Francis Friday called on the faithful to value the "little things in life" and show solidarity with the poor in his Christmas Eve...
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Remembering September 11 From Costa Rica 25 Years Later

From a cantina in Quepos to stunned phone calls home, an American expat recalls watching September 11 unfold from Costa Rica and realizing the world had changed.

Costa Rica Nears 49,000 Short-Term Rentals as Tourist Numbers Lag

A new study counts 48,985 short-term rental listings in Costa Rica, more than double 2019, while international arrivals remain below pre-pandemic levels.

Western Union Cuts Could Hit More Than 1,000 Jobs in Costa Rica

Western Union will shrink its Costa Rica operations center and move jobs to Guatemala, Lithuania and the Philippines.

Billfish: Another Step Forward in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

Some important decisions arrive with headlines, prohibitions, and grand speeches. Others seem much more modest. Last week in Lisbon, we saw one of the...