The Dominican government has expanded its Great National Consultation for the Future of Education to the Dominican diaspora, ...
Pope Francis celebrates Mass for Dominicans at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. (Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.) Listen ROME – Though most might associate the Dominican order as having established much ...
The Archdiocese of Hartford says it needs control of St. Mary’s Church and priory to serve as the hub of New Haven’s new ‘municipal model.’ Local Catholics and parishioners say something doesn’t add ...
Dominican Father Gérard Francisco Timoner III, the first Asian master general of the Order of Preachers’ 800-year history, is a native of the Philippines. As the 88th successor of St. Dominic Guzman, ...
A month away from presidential elections, one segment of Dominican Republic society fears it will be denied the right to vote. Dominicans of Haitian descent – people born in the Dominican Republic to ...
The share of Latino adults who identify as Catholic is declining as the share of Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated rise. Today, 55% of Latinos say they are Catholic, a drop of 12 percentage ...
Some Dominicans who have never traveled outside of their country of birth could suddenly find themselves outsiders. The citizenship of tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent may be ...
Seventy-five years ago, this border town, separated from Haiti by the ominously named Massacre River, was the center of a killing field. On orders from dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, thousands of ...
For 48 hours last week, the Dominican Republic’s fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold ...