SANTIAGO – Angry protestors burned a bus and scattered pamphlets in protest of an upcoming visit by Pope Francis to the Araucania region, which has long been a site of attempts by the Mapuche indigenous […]
SANTIAGO – Chile and Bolivia will collaborate in border areas on the visit of Pope Francis next January. Customs officials of both nations, which have already held contacts several times this year in a new […]
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has admitted he sometimes falls asleep while praying. “When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep,” the 80-year-old head of the Catholic Church has revealed during an interview with a Catholic […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – The projected cost paid by the Chilean government to host the Pope in January 2018 will be around 7 billion Chilean Pesos (over US$11 million), it has been […]
SANTIAGO — The Baha’i community of Chile recently donated 2,000 trees to the city of Santiago. This gift came from the Native Flora Project, a tree-planting initiative at the Baha’i House of Worship in Chile. […]
MEXICO – Pope Francis has given money to the earthquake relief effort in Mexico to help survivors and victims’ families in the worst hit areas of the country. Mexico earthquake death toll rises to 90 […]
SANTIAGO – At least 14 minors were abused by a Marist Brother from the 1970s until 2000 at the Instituto Alonso de Ercilla and the Marcelino Champagnat schools in Chile. The Marist Brothers, in a […]
Ricardo Gutiérrez Ballarín MADRID – There are indigent persons who exercise the begging as a profession and unashamedly, choosing specific large cities to show their rags. Some of them have posters that tell touching stories: […]
SANTIAGO – The Vatican has released the official logo and motto for Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journey to Chile, which takes place on 15-18 January 2018. The Pope will visit Chile ahead of his trip to […]
JERUSALEM/CARACAS – Hundreds of Jews in Venezuela are fleeing the Latin American country amid the rising violence and food shortage under the rule of President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela once had one of the largest Jewish […]
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