Pro-government militia, known in Venezuela as “colectivos,” have even on a number of occasions disrupted Mass at churches in Caracas in attempts to silence church leaders.

The scenario captures something of the present-day reality of the Catholic Church in Venezuela, as Church ministers spend themselves to alleviate the effects of a crisis from which they themselves ...

Over one million Venezuelans have arrived in Colombia as of May 2018. Colombia is not a rich country, and helping to bear the burden of receiving thousands of Venezuelan refugees every day is the ...

What Venezuelans find in their evangelical church Israel Guerra was raised Catholic, but a spiritual crisis led him to become evangelical.

In Venezuela, priests convicted of abuse have returned to ministry Clergy who sexually abused children have served little or no time. Critics fault both the church and the judicial system.

The sainthood process In the Catholic Church, sainthood is an official confirmation that a person has entered God’s eternal presence—basically, that they made it to heaven.

CARACAS, Venezuela—The Catholic Church in Venezuela is stepping up its criticism of President Nicolás Maduro ’s leftist government and calling for him to release political prisoners, schedule ...

Luis Vildoso, project manager for the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in Venezuela, shared the current situation in the country and in the Catholic Church — and how the ...

A Catholic bishop was recently deported to Venezuela shortly after arriving in Mexico this month and has blasted Mexican authorities for alleged violation of human rights and racial discrimination.

On a recent Sunday morning, several hundred Catholic worshippers were at Mass inside a hillside church of a poor Caracas neighbourhood when there was a sudden commotion at the back.