A Colombian tailor is sharpening his scissors to make ceremonial garments for the new pope. The Vatican was quick to call up Luis Delgado from Colombia’s third largest city Cali, who was selected to embroider three...
The Colombian cardinal Ruben Salazar will travel to Rome for Pope Benedict XVI’s final public hearing and to help select the next head of the Catholic Church. “I think it is my duty to go to accompany him on his last...
Pope Benedict XVI named the Archbishop of Bogota as one of the Vatican’s new cardinals Wednesday morning. Bogota archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez will join five others from the U.S., Lebanon, India, Nigeria, and the Philippines as...
Pope Benedict XVI urged Colombia’s Catholic Church to help the country’s criminals, its poor, displaced and kidnapped. He also called for special help to assist victims of the Andean nation’s recent natural...
Eight Colombian police and military members who were kidnapped by the FARC attended Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience Wednesday at the Vatican in Rome. “It will be poignant for the soldiers and family members...
A diplomatic blunder may have ruined Colombia’s shot at a visit from the Pope, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reported Monday. Just when the Vatican announced it was considering a visit to Colombia in 2013, President Juan...
The Vatican has confirmed the possibility of Pope Benedict XVI visiting Colombia in 2013, local media reported Thursday. According to Colombia’s outgoing ambassador to the Holy See, Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, the request...
Pope Benedict XVI announced on Friday the appointment of a highly educated Jesuit priest as the new bishop of the Fontibon district in Bogota. Born in Quito, Ecuador in 1951, Juan Vicente Cordoba went on to study philisophy,...
The Episcopal Conference of Latin America (CELEAM) invited Pope Benedict XVI to visit Colombia in 2013. According to Caracol Radio, the invitation was extended at an October 7 meeting at the Vatican between members of the CELEAM...
Pope Benedict XVI has named Alberto Omar Sanchez Cubillos as bishop in Tibu, in the northern Colombian department of Norte de Santander, reported The Vatican Wednesday. Cubillos Sanchez was born in 1963 in Zipaquira,...
