The ongoing water emergency in Flint exposed the leaky state of public water resources across the country.

Friends, family members and activists associated with the slain Honduran Berta Cáceres are calling for an independent investigation into her killing through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

“She was criminalized by Honduran authorities because of her activism, so now it is too difficult for her family to think the same system is going to make an independent and true investigation.”

It has been a grim couple of days reading about and listening to testimony related to past abuse of children by Catholic priests.

Father Ruiz wants the world see beyond the violence and poverty of his native city.

Pope Francis paused to pray for migrants who have lost their lives making the perilous journey north.

“Divine Mercy reminds us that prisons are an indication of the kind of society we are.”

It’s the photo op of the century and most reporters on hand tomorrow will be jostling for a closeup.

His presence was a message to the indigenous communities here: Pope Francis has heard of your suffering and he has said, “Enough.”

In Mexico the devotion Santa Muerte, called “the boney one” or “the white lady,” emerged from relative obscurity in 2001.