I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Pope Leo XIV made history as the first U.S.-born pontiff but his election is being celebrated in Peru because of his ties to ...

CHICLAYO, Peru — Walkiria Garcia was 14 years old when she made her confirmation in the Catholic Church, an already ...

Pope Leo XIV might be "gringo" by birth but ask the people from Chiclayo, Peru, and the man is decidedly Peruvian.

In a digital age, the front pages of print newspapers can still capture a historic moment as they did on Friday with ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility.

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as ...

The small city of Chiclayo in northern Peru was bustling with excitement on Friday (May 9), with businesses and locals ...

Paddington bear going on an Indiana Jones-style adventure in “Paddington in Peru” and Alexander Skarsgard playing a robot ...

With a culture as rich as Peru’s, you can see it, and you can hear it. So when the world started learning more about the new pope, they thought he was just a cardinal from Chicago.

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest prot ...