Fr. Adrian Vazquez celebrates an outdoor Mass under a white tent outside the quake-damaged Our Lady of the Angels Church, in the working-class Guerrero neighborhood of Mexico City Aug. 7. (AP/Ginnette Riquelme)

Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab

World
Sep 6, 2022

Under a white tent on the street outside Our Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday, Fr. Adrián Vázquez led parishioners seated in pews and plastic chairs in celebrating 10 a.m. Mass, flanked by piles of rubble from the sanctuary left there by a deadly earthquake nearly five years ago.

A banner emblazoned with an image of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega is waved by an Ortega supporter in Managua, Nicaragua, April 30, 2018. (AP file/Alfredo Zuniga)

Explainer: Tension between Nicaragua and the Catholic Church

World
Aug 19, 2022

Here's a look at the fraught relationship between the church and the Nicaraguan government amid a political standoff that's now in its fifth year, with no end in sight.