(RNS) — When an impoverished neighborhood’s biggest obstacle is its murder rate, no amount of food donations and micro-loans will alleviate suffering. Sociologist Kurt Ver Beek knows this firsthand.

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inmates from ...

State and federal officers arrested an MS-13 gang member and criminal illegal alien from Honduras in a joint operation caught ...

A confrontation between rival gangs left at least 41 women dead in a Honduran prison. For weeks, inmates at the all-women prison had voiced their concerns about being threatened by gang members, ...

A coordinated operation led to the arrest of Luis Merary Peralta-Sevilla, a known MS-13 gang member and illegal immigrant ...

* Mexican cartels fighting over Honduran smuggling routes * Police blame drug traffickers' territorial disputes By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA, April 11 (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen killed nine ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

For Santiago Ávila, the fight against the powerful street gangs that terrorize communities throughout his native Honduras is deeply personal. He was 19 when his 16-year-old brother Mauricio was ...

In the hills above the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Cecilia* points towards a vacant house, teetering on an eroding slope. Like so many in the neighbourhood, it was not so much abandoned as emptied ...