More than a million people live in conditions of modern slavery in the United States today, according to the Global Slavery ...

Already in 1628, another Franciscan, Salvatore Vitale ... Ricoldus a Monte Crucis (1243–1320), Dominican missionary and travel writer, gives the first solid information about the Sorrowful Way in his ...

Then there followed the two religious orders of evangelistic friars: Dominicans and Franciscans. Preceding the sacred image carried by Bishop Zumirraga and Juan Diego, went Indians burning incense.

An important aspect of this is that 11 of the 21 future cardinals are members of religious orders: four Franciscans, two Dominicans, two Divine Word Missionaries, one Redemptorist, one ...

“Go back to the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Jesuits. They all responded to a need of their time — what they perceived to be this pressing spiritual need.” Further reading ...

Dominican officials have been deporting at least 10,000 Haitian immigrants a week under a harsh new policy widely criticized ...

A Dominican man has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a human smuggling operation that authorities say led to the deaths of 11 migrants ...

Living in the Dominican Republic offers ex-pats a warm, sunny and affordable retirement. Should you make the move, too?

In the end, Charros failed when required and with a single run the Leones del Escogido of the Dominican Republic were crowned champions of the 2025 Caribbean Series. In this way, the Dominican ...

The Michigan-based Adrian Dominican Sisters is ending its sponsorship of literacy centers, including three in Detroit, in response to the declining number of women entering the sisterhood.

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean country located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. It shares the island with Haiti to the west. The Dominican Republic is known for its ...

The aircraft has been held in Santo Domingo since April 2024. Rubio, in the Dominican Republic on his first trip as top US diplomat, watched as a warrant was taped on the door of the aircraft.