“History is being made. We are at a particular moment for the universal church, not only for Chile,” one monsignor said.

A crackdown on drug cartels, started 11 years ago, has claimed more than 200,000 lives and left more than 30,000 people missing.

In their first meeting, Pope Francis provided the bishops with texts to pray and meditate on.

Pope Francis and the Chilean church are under mounting pressure to address another, even bigger sex scandal.

President Trump’s determination to build a wall does not consider the complex realities that force people to migrate north to the United States.

The dialogue, for many students, is a way to hold the government accountable for the downward spiral of violence, which they blame on Mr. Ortega and his wife and Nicaragua’s vice-president, Rosario Murillo.