Father Prevost served the Augustinian mission in Trujillo for 11 years during a period of great disorder in Peru, when guerrillas of El Sendero Luminoso, The Shining Path, a Maoist revolutionary ...

Machu Picchu may be the crown jewel of South America’s ancient sites, but tucked away in the remote Andes lies another ...

But another country also lays a claim to the papacy: Peru, where Prevost lived as a ... fighting under the banner of the Shining Path and government forces under Peruvian president-dictator ...

northern Peru is an area of high poverty, often hit by flooding in the rainy season. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was roiled by internal conflict between the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path and ...

Robert Francis Prevost first moved to Peru in 1985 as a missionary working in remote rural regions at a time when the country was plagued by violence fomented by the Shining Path, a Maoist ...

northern Peru is an area of high poverty, often hit by flooding in the rainy season. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was roiled by internal conflict between the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path and ...

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-torn Gaza, decrying the violence and suffering ...

Then he transitioned to Spanish and, with a big grin, gave a greeting to his “beloved diocese of Chiclayo in Peru ... of Sendero Luminoso, or “Shining Path,” who aimed to install a ...

dissidents of the defunct FARC and Peru's Shining Path as the biggest threats in the region. “Terrorism remained a security concern for some countries in various parts of Latin America in 2023 ...