Christians call for prayers as Hurricane Melissa closes in on Jamaica

Christian leaders and communities are urging prayers as Hurricane Melissa, a devastating category five storm, approaches Jamaica. Many residents have been evacuated, with authorities warning of catastrophic flooding, high winds, and widespread...

10 Children from the Same Town Among Those Dead as Hurricane Melissa's Death Toll Continues to Grow By Gabrielle Rockson

NEED TO KNOW Hurricane Melissa's death toll is increasing as the storm continues across the Atlantic Ocean after devastating countries like Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba The storm hit Jamaica as a Category 5, weakening to a Category 3 before impacting...

Pope Leo prays for victims of Hurricane Melissa; discusses Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions

Pope Leo XIV said in his Oct. 29 General Audience that he is praying for those who have died from Hurricane Melissa, which, according to reports, made landfall in Jamaica Oct. 28 as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Pope Leo...

Trump cuts China fentanyl tariffs and a church's 50-year history of sex abuse and cover-ups: Morning Rundown

Trump's long-awaited meeting with the Chinese president. A 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world's largest Pentecostal denomination. And, Hurricane Melissa's death toll rises as it causes more destruction in the...

Dominican Republic raises US$1.6 Billion through sovereign bonds

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican government, via the Ministry of Finance and Economy, successfully issued US$1.6 billion in sovereign bonds on international markets with a 10-year maturity and a yield of 5.875%, fully covering its external financing...

Costa Rica is the 6th most innovative country in Latin America by 2025

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica ranked sixth in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 2025 Global Innovation Index (GII), published in September by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in conjunction with Cornell University and the...

One writer’s plan to rescue baseball from itself

On Saturday night, Oct. 25, my husband managed to pry me away from the second game of the World Series to see a movie at a local funplex. In each of the cavernous bars, there was a massive square of four giant televisions, all tuned to various...

‘Passion is everything’: DePaul men’s tennis welcomes Alejandro Gandini

Alejandro Gandini first picked up a tennis racket at age 6, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Armando. He fell in love with the sport soon after and joined a tennis club along with his sibling in the Dominican Republic, their home...

Costa Rica Celebrates Cultural Roots with Masquerade Day Parade

Streets across Costa Rica fill with color and music each October 31 as the nation marks Traditional Masquerade Day, a celebration that honors local heritage and sparks community spirit. This year, on Friday, parades, performances, and workshops...

Who is Teoscar Hernandez's wife? Dodgers player's children and family

The Toronto Blue Jays were victorious in Game 4 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dave Roberts' team only woke up in the ninth when Teoscar Hernandez was walked and then Muncy hit a shot to right field. The Dominican outfielder,...

Catholic retreat highlights missionary work in Dominican Republic, Québec

Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Column A Jubilee year is celebrated every 25 years in the Catholic Church worldwide Linda Proulx with Mission Esperanza, left, chats with Sister Maude Renaud at the Jubilee Retreat in Cochrane, in the auditorium at...

MS BAnDS students win new Dominican Republic-based retail competition

Friday, October 24, 2025 Media Contact: Stephen Howard | Director of Marketing & Communications | 405-744-4363 | stephen.howard@okstate.edu A group of four Oklahoma State University business analytics graduate students made history as the first...

A Foreigner Dying in the Dominican Republic

I am a foreigner, legally and happily married to a Dominican with no children, who has left his life in his country of birth behind (including assets that I had there and my previous marriage) and made a new life in the Dominican Republic where I...

Dominican Republic Deports Record 370,000 Haitians

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – More than 370,000 undocumented Haitians have been deported from the Dominican Republic over the past year under tougher immigration measures by President Luis Abinader. Human rights groups say the mass raids and detentions...

Syracuse women’s basketball 2025-26 roster, bios: 8 newcomers look to spark bounce-back season

Syracuse, N.Y. — Felisha Legette-Jack heads into her fourth year as Syracuse women’s basketball head coach following her worst campaign since taking the helm at her alma mater. The Orange finished the 2024-25 campaign 12-18, which concluded by...

Hyannis sewing class means independence for Cape Cod's immigrant women

HYANNIS — The rhythmic whir of Iraci Borges dos Santos' sewing machine filled the Latinx in Action workspace as she passed brightly-colored turquoise tulle through the machine's needle plate. Leda Oliveira, who takes part in the sewing program,...

Dominican Republic presents its first National Palliative Care Plan: 'Now it’s up to the State to make it a reality'

Bishop Reynaldo Franco Aquino and Dr. Bethania Martínez sign the agreement for the establishment of the first National Palliative Care Plan in the Dominican Republic. Photo: Dialogue and Christian Representation Roundtable In a spirit of...

Indotel and ABA launch financial education campaign for Dominican diaspora in the U.S.

New York.- The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) and the Association of Multiple Banks of the Dominican Republic (ABA) have announced a new financial education campaign aimed at guiding Dominicans living in the United States on how...

Nvidia to build AI center of excellence in Dominican Republic

Nvidia has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dominican Republic to establish the Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CEIA). The agreement, formalized in Santo Domingo, marks the first such partnership for the company in...

Hurricane spares Kingston, Jamaica, from worst of its wrath so far, religious brother says

19 (OSV News) — The director of apostolates for a Jamaica-based religious community serving the poor in Kingston said Oct. 28 that the Category-5 Hurricane Melissa seems to be sparing Kingston the worst of its wrath. But he added that the storm...