There are more Latino voters in the U.S. than ever. As reporters and pundits seek to understand this important voting bloc, they’re digging into the faith of Hispanic communities.

Catholic leaders throughout the Americas are expressing grief and outrage at the killing of Juan Antonio López, a Honduran environmental activist and local Catholic leader, in Tocoa, in northeastern Honduras, on Saturday (Sept. 14).

For the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the “free flow” of migrants crossing the border is an “unprecedented crisis” that led the NHCLC to launch its immigration reform campaign, “The Urgency of Now,” in March. 

Henning, who has led the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, for just over a year, will now lead an archdiocese of more than 1.8 million Catholics.

Many of the Mennonites who marched over 135 miles from Harrisonburg, Virginia, to the White House had someone in mind as they walked, nursing blisters and removing ticks as they crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley in 11 days.

It's the latest legal defeat for a Republican-led investigation of Catholic migrant shelters.

The faithful gathered in Indianapolis on Wednesday night (July 17) had traveled from all 50 U.S. states and 17 countries to join the 10th National Eucharistic Congress, the first since the ninth National Eucharistic Congress in 1941.

‘We are hoping that there is some kind of alternative plan to keep the church going, to keep the justice and peace programs going, to keep our advocacy work going,’ said Steven Nabieu Rogers, executive director of the Africa Faith and Justice Network.