"We are sending innocent people back to one of the most chaotic and dangerous places in the world."

The bishops' conferences of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru forged a coordinated action plan to offer needed services to Venezuelans.

Trials for genocide and human rights violations are proceeding in Guatemala, even after the death of the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.

In at least three Latin American countries, Catholics have become religious minorities. 

The sisters take care not to draw attention from government officials lest there be repercussions.

All three were victims of the infamous Chilean priest predator, the Rev. Ferdinando Karadima, who was found guilty of abuse of minors by the Vatican.