BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Children living in the slums of Argentina's capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime. Villa 21-24 slum in Buenos Aires is so ...

Caacupe cricket team Milagros Mendez, left, bats during a training session at the Villa 21-24 slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, March 22, 2014. The International Cricket Council has ...

Argentine President Javier Milei leaves the Holocaust museum after attending an event marking the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 26, 2024 ...

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) – On his first anniversary as pontiff Thursday, Pope Francis defended "slum priests" from the accusation their advocacy for the downtrodden reflects a different, leftist ...

hey call the slums villas miserias, or little cities of misery. Instead of names, most have been assigned numbers by the Argentine government. Father Carlos Olivero lives in a small concrete church in ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — They call the slums villas miserias, or little cities of misery. Instead of names, most have been assigned numbers by the Argentine government. Father Carlos Olivero lives in ...

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 ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — They call the slums villas miserias, or little cities of misery. Instead of names, most have been assigned numbers by the Argentine government. Father Carlos Olivero lives in ...

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 ...