Tropical Storm Sara warning for Mexico, Belize, Honduras and Guatemala issued with 38cm rain possible

Tropical Storm Sara is on the brink of making landfall in Belize today (Sunday, November 17), with forecasters warning that heavy rainfall could trigger life-threatening flash floods and mudslides. The storm's centre is predicted to hit Belize late …

Sunrise Guest: Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation

A Lehigh Valley surgeon is healing hands not only in this country but around the world. Dr. Jay Talsania, with OAA Orthopedic Specialists in Allentown, has been helping children in Central America through the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation. These trips …

Guatemala appeals court overturns order that freed journalist José Rubén Zamora and orders his return to jail

Inter-American Court finds Guatemala responsible for 1989 forced disappearances of indigenous rights defenders

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights released its ruling in the case of Pérez Lucas et al v. Guatemala on Thursday, finding the State responsible for the forced disappearance of four indigenous human rights defenders in 1989. The court determined that …

Stolen children return to Guatemala to learn the truth

On the football field in Futeca Cayalá, an upscale neighbourhood in Guatemala City, a billboard displays motivational slogans: “Until the last drop. Sweating is glory. Leave it all on the field.” Osmín Ricardo Tobar Ramírez, the 35-year-old defensive …

Nicaraguan dictatorship expels Catholic bishop to Guatemala 

CV NEWS FEED // In another attack on Christians in Nicaragua, the country’s dictatorship this week expelled Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera of Jinotega and exiled him to Guatemala. Bishop Herrera is the president of the Nicaraguan Episcopal …

Dictatorship exiles bishop Carlos Herrera, president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua to Guatemala

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered the exile of monsignor Carlos Herrera, president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) and bishop of the Diocese of Jinotega, after he described the pro-Ortega mayor of that locality, …

Tribunal ordena que el periodista José Rubén Zamora regrese a prisión en Guatemala

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Una Sala de Apelaciones de Guatemala revocó la medida de arresto domiciliario que tenía el periodista José Rubén Zamora desde octubre pasado, según el fallo divulgado este viernes por Ricardo Méndez Ruiz, presidente de la …

Guatemala appeals court verdict could see publisher returned to prison

WASHINGTON —  The Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora could be returned to prison after an appeals court Friday overturned an order that had moved him into house arrest. Zamora, who is the founder of the newspaper El Periodico, had been detained on …

Glenview Donates Fire Engine For Second Life Of Service In Guatemala

A 2006 Pierce Enforcer fire engine is headed to Guatemala as part of a donation facilitated by the Glenview United Methodist Church, through the southern Illinois-based Midwest Mission organization, a faith-based organization founded by the United …