The Dicastery of the Causes of Saints has promulgated a decree recognizing that five Spanish Franciscans were killed “in odium fidei” (“in hatred of the faith”) in 1597 — specifically for defending ...

As a native Texan, I’ve spent my fair share of time at Christian overnight camps, where many of my former bunkmates gradually ...

The Spanish section of the Pontifical Missions Societies (PMS Spain) has presented its annual report for the year 2023, which shows that the Catholic Church in the increasingly secularized country ...

Mormon missionaries Carter Campbell, right, and Karson Pasker, center, review the “Plan de Servicios” with Cuban immigrant Paula Rodriguez-Hereda. TOP: Campbell and Pasker were the first full-time ...

A Spanish filmmaker and convert who helped establish the LDS Church in Spain and whose movies plowed new territory in Mormon ...

SAN ANTONIO − During a recent road trip to this beguiling Texas city, I spent a considerable amount of time in churches. Most were Catholic churches, of course, since San Antonio's origins revolved ...

Journey through history by visiting the Baja California missions, enduring symbols of the era of Spanish exploration and ...

Hundreds of years ago Francisco de Burgoa, a Dominican priest, shared the story of a group of Spanish missionaries who explored the ruins of an ancient church in Oaxaca, Mexico. Burgoa claimed that ...

CORDOVA, New Mexico (AP) — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities like Cordova ...

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Mission San José in San Antonio fires the imagination about how the Spanish and Native Americans lived together in the mostly reconstructed courtyard. SAN ANTONIO − During a recent road trip to this ...