A woman touches a religious figure beside a banner of Pope Francis reading in Spanish, “The Pope of the people of the slum” as she attends a Mass in his honor at the 1-11-14 slum’s church in Buenos ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina’s capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime. Villa 21-24 in Buenos Aires is a ...

A photo taken March 5, 2019, shows Villa 31, a populous and marginalized neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Credit: Magali Druscovich/ Reuters via CNS.) Listen ROSARIO, Argentina – An estimated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina says more than 2,000 police and other security agents have staged a massive raid into one ...

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 ...

All links without [es] are in English. Argentina's shantytowns—the villas miserias—are in an identity crisis. Shantytown identity is a culture all its own, but it doesn't enjoy the visibility many ...

A visitor strolling down Arroyo, a street in Retiro, one of the poshest neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires, can buy a bag of coffee beans for $22 and order a kale pesto salad at a hip restaurant. But a ...