Peruvian priest and theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, considered the “father” of liberation theology, died October 22 at 96. On his 90th birthday in 2018, Pope Francis thanked the priest “for ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Former President Donald Trump said the Nov. 5 election will mark “liberation day in America” as his campaign plans to dismantle current border policies, should he win the ...

Getachew Reda’s reformist faction says the party’s monopoly on politics must be broken. For more than 40 years, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has been unassailable in Ethiopia’s northern ...

How the Peruvian priest influenced the fathers of integral mission. Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the father of liberation theology and Catholic theologian who first argued for a “preferential ...

There were no histrionics, no dramatic gestures, there was just honest perfection. And the orchestra, with reduced strings, one timpani, one flute and pairs of oboes, bassoons, trumpets and ...

The excerpt below, set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh Liberation War—which lasted nine months and concluded with the birth of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971—explores the contradictions that ...

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest known as the father of liberation theology, a movement that reverberated across Latin America and beyond with its emphasis on fighting poverty and ...

The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last ...

LIMA, Peru — The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian theologian and father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez speaks during a press conference at the Vatican, Tuesday, May ...

Though opposed by many within the Church itself, liberation theology still had a lasting effect on Catholic life as well as a profound influence well beyond the confines of Roman Catholicism.