Peru

After an oil spill fouled nearly 100 miles of shoreline north of Lima, Bishop Luis Barrera Pacheco of Callao, the seaport where the accident occurred, called for officials to repair the damage and care for "our common home."

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent further degradation of tropical ecosystems in the region.

Thousands of Catholics throughout Latin America and the Caribbean have been participating in a "listening" process that leads up to a regionwide ecclesial assembly Nov. 21-28 in Mexico City. The pope calls the assembly "a meeting of the people of God."

COVID-19, which slammed Iquitos, Peru, early in the pandemic, supercharged Fr. Raymond Portelli's already jampacked life as a priest, professor and medical doctor.

In many parts of the Amazon, lay leaders weave the fabric of Catholic communities together.

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Liz Chicaje Churay says communities are committed to protecting the forest, but the pandemic has put many of their plans on hold.

For the second round of Peru's presidential elections, which will be held June 6, the candidates — socialist Pedro Castillo and right-winger Keiko Fujimori — don't seem to be the ideal choices for many.

Pro-immigrant groups applauded a March 8 decision by the Biden administration to protect some 320,000 Venezuelans in the United States under a temporary immigration program.