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10 Things You Didn’t Know About the First Latin Pope

By Samantha Leal | 03/14/2013 - 11:46 | 0 Comments

History was made as the new pope was named – and he is Latino! Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, 76, became the new pope who will lead 1.2 billion Catholics. Pope Francis (as he’s now named) is the first Latin American to be named as such. But what do you really know about him? Here are ten things you definitely need to know.

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The Way We Worship: Why Latinos Are Leaving the Catholic Church

By Franziska Castillo | 03/14/2013 - 11:20 | 0 Comments

More Latinos than ever are leaving the Catholic Church for other religions and spiritual practices—whether it be Pentecostalism, Islam or no spiritual practice at all. What the way we worship says about us as a changing community.

Sunday morning around Manhattan’s West 107th...

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Pope Benedict Resigns, Argentine Cardinal May Take His Place

By Kamren Curiel | 02/12/2013 - 13:26 | 0 Comments

Argentina's Leonardo Sandri may be in the running to become the first Latin American to lead the world’s one billion Roman Catholics after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation Monday.   
In the midst of what was supposed to be a routine meeting with cardinals about potential saints, Pope Benedict (born Joseph Ratzinger...

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A Growing Number of Latinos Are Not Religious

By Samantha Leal | 08/28/2012 - 17:00 | 0 Comments

A Pew Hispanic Center National Survey shows that with each new generation, Latinos have become ingreasingly less religious. The survey shows that while around one in ten foreign-born Latinos are not religiously affiliated (9 percent), that number doubles...

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Religious Leaders Try to Bar Ricky Martin from Honduras

By Fox News Latino | 10/05/2011 - 14:00 | 0 Comments

An ecumenical group of religious leaders have demanded that the Honduran government deny a visa to Ricky Martin, arguing that he represents a bad moral example for the country's youth. 

The pop star, who is set to perform in the...

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EXCLUSIVE: Edward James Olmos on his 'Dexter' Role: “I’m A Very Good Guy Doing Very Bad Things.”

By Lee Hernandez | 09/30/2011 - 13:41 | 0 Comments

This Sunday, Oscar-nominated Mexican actor Edward James Olmos joins the hit Showtime drama Dexter in the role of James Gellar, a professor of religion and a killer motivated by Scripture. We called up the veteran character actor yesterday to get all of the juicy details on his highly anticipated new role on the show, and we...

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Rick Gonzalez Has a God Complex in Lady Gaga's New Music Video for "Judas"

Rick Gonzalez Has a God Complex in Lady Gaga's New Music Video for "Judas"

By Mariela Rosario | 05/09/2011 - 08:55 | 0 Comments

Rick Gonzalez has been in a bunch of films (Old School, War of the Worlds, Coach Carter) and starred in the cult TV series Reaper, but it's his latest role as Jesus—yes, as in the Jesus—in Lady Gaga's controversial new music video for her single "Judas" that has him in the spotlight these days....

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Spanish Man Builds Cathedral From Trash

By Amaris Castillo | 04/06/2011 - 15:30 | 2 Comments

An elderly man from Spain has steadily built a cathedral out of salvaged materials over the past 50 years. 

Justo Martinez, known as Don Justo in the community, began building the church after tuberculosis forced him to abandon his...

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