The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Sociedad Uruguaya de Aviación (SUA), a privately owned company, has begun the process of becoming Uruguay's new flag carrier ... and operations center for Latin America in Uruguay.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

As archbishop of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who would take the name Francis when he became pope in 2013, came up within the Latin American bishops’ conference, known as CELAM.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the ... May this hope forever outlast him.” Flags flew at half-staff in Italy, and tourists and the faithful ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday, ordered that American flags be flown at half-mast to honour Pope Francis. This comes after Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Rest in Peace, Pope Francis!