Author: Luis Andres Henao
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Ukrainian spiritual and diplomatic leaders urge aid, weapons
WASHINGTON • The top leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the United States and Ukraine’s ambassador to the nation made an urgent appeal to the world Tuesday for more weapons to fight against Russia’s invasion and aid to address the worsening humanitarian crisis. The Most Rev. Borys Gudziak, metropolitan archbishop of Philadelphia for the Ukrainian Catholic…
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Alabama teenager donates his hair for children with cancer
Kieran Moïse’s afro was a splendid 19 inches, a huge part of his personality. But after six years of growth, the 17-year-old Alabamian knew that he and his hair would soon be parted: He was bound for the Air Force Academy. So in memory of a friend who died from cancer, he cut it off…
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Faith leaders play election peacemakers, at polls and beyond
NEW YORK — Yehudah Webster, wearing a neon vest with an “Election Defenders” tag around his neck, started his Tuesday outside a Brooklyn polling place. Only the gray yarmulke Webster wore hinted at his specific role: faith-based observer on a uniquely anxious Election Day in America. Webster, an organizer with the progressive group Jews for…
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Hurricane Delta now Category 4, roars at Mexico’s Yucatan
CANCUN, Mexico • Delta rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds Tuesday on a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf coast this week. The worst of the immediate impact was expected along the resort-studded northeastern tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where hurricane conditions were…
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Death toll rises to 15 as violence wracks Chile for 5th day
SANTIAGO, Chile • Rioting, arson attacks and violent clashes wracked Chile for a fifth day Tuesday, as the government raised the death toll to 15 in an upheaval that has almost paralyzed the South American country long seen as the region’s oasis of stability. About half of Chile’s 16 regions remained under an emergency decree…
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Respiratory ailments hit in Amazon as Brazil spurns G-7 aid
PORTO VELHO, Brazil • Acrimony between Brazil and European countries seeking to help fight Amazon fires deepened on Tuesday, jeopardizing hopes of global unity over how to protect a region seen as vital to the health of the planet. A personal spat between the leaders of Brazil and France seemed to dominate the dispute, but…
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Tens of millions without power in South America blackout
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina • A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday in what the Argentine president called an “unprecedented” failure in the countries’ power grid. Authorities were working frantically to restore power, and by the evening electricity had returned to 90 percent of the…
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Brazilian police say Ryan Lochte, US swimmers were not robbed
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police said Thursday that swimmer Ryan Lochte and three U.S. teammates were not robbed after a night of partying, and the intoxicated athletes instead vandalized a gas station bathroom and were questioned by armed guards before they paid for the damage and left. The robbery that was or wasn’t has…