The Dominican Republic’s Central Electoral Board of the Dominican Republic announced that Dominicans living abroad can now ...
Pope Francis celebrates Mass for Dominicans at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. (Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.) Listen ROME – Though most might associate the Dominican order as having established much ...
SAN FRANCISCO — St. Dominic preached the Catholic faith in the squares and taverns of France where people congregated, and 800 years later, his Order of Preachers is now taking that Dominican ...
Politicians in the Dominican Republic have long courted Dominicans in the U.S. for votes. That relationship has strengthened in the past couple of years; in 2011, the Dominican government established ...
Mohawk Valley Dominican business leaders, including Utica's Excellent Tape owner Oscar Martinez, recognized at annual ...
The share of Latino adults who identify as Catholic is declining as the share of Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated rise. Today, 55% of Latinos say they are Catholic, a drop of 12 percentage ...
A month away from presidential elections, one segment of Dominican Republic society fears it will be denied the right to vote. Dominicans of Haitian descent – people born in the Dominican Republic to ...
U.S. members of the Order of Preachers discuss jubilee, which included the largest ordination class in 45 years; the new priests were ordained this past weekend. Above, Father Thomas Petri blesses a ...
For 48 hours last week, the Dominican Republic’s fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold ...
Some Dominicans who have never traveled outside of their country of birth could suddenly find themselves outsiders. The citizenship of tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent may be ...
Seventy-five years ago, this border town, separated from Haiti by the ominously named Massacre River, was the center of a killing field. On orders from dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, thousands of ...