TLACOTALPAN, Mexico (RNS) — Each February for more than 100 years, inhabitants of the small town in southern Mexico have honored the Virgin de la Candelaria in a weeklong festival marking the end of ...

A version of this story ran in the October 2016 issue. “Are you a good swimmer?” Clarisa asks me as we stand on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and watch the swiftly moving water, murky with ...

After you're done reading about cults, cannibalism and flesh-eating zombies, author and National Poetry Slam Champion Melissa Lozada-Oliva wants readers to "call their grandmothers." "Candelaria" ...

A lonely Londoner cyber-stalks her married lover and his other paramours; a dispersed Guatemalan American family comes together in crisis; a Mohawk mother navigates life off the rez. Credit...John ...

LIMA, Peru--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Peruvian culture celebrates one of its most important religious traditions in February: the Day of the Virgin Mary of Candelaria, as reported by the Commission for the ...