Eduardo Campos Lima

Eduardo Campos Lima holds a degree in journalism and a doctorate in literature from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Between 2016 and 2017, he was a Fulbright visiting research student at Columbia University. He has written for major news outlets, such as Reuters and the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

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People ride a motorbike along an empty road at the Tienditas Bridge border between Venezuela and Colombia, in Cucuta, Colombia, Jan. 4, following U.S. strikes on Venezuela where President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured the previous day. (OSV News/Reuters/Luisa Gonzalez)

Venezuelan Catholics express cautious optimism about political change

Despite uncertainty, the church will keep trying to offer hope, Archbishop Jesús González de Zárate told NCR.

Brazilian Sister Marizele Isabel Cassiano Rego is seen in an undated photograph. Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral worldwide after a May 28, 2025, video showed them beatboxing and dancing hip hop on Catholic TV -- drawing comparisons to a real-life "Sister Act." (OSV News/courtesy Copiosa Redenção)

Video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing goes viral, boosts interest in their ministry

“People usually think nuns are rigid, even grumpy women. When they see us singing and dancing, when they get to know us better, they realize we’re not,” Sister Marizele said.

People kneel at pews and in aisle of church

In crime-stricken Haiti, Catholic priests and nuns are targeted as kidnap victims

As criminal organizations extend their control over Haiti, kidnappings have continued to terrorize the country’s residents, with Catholic priests and other missionaries becoming some of the most common targets.

Carmelite Sr. Lucia dos Santos is seen in this May 16, 2000, file photo. Sister Lucia, the eldest of three Portuguese children to report apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, died Feb. 13, 2005, at the age of 97. She was declared "venerable" on June 22 by Pope Francis. (OSV News/Courtesy of Shrine of Fatima)

Portugal celebrates 'venerable' declaration for Fátima visionary, Sister Lucia

Catholics in Portugal hope World Youth Day in Lisbon Aug. 1-6 will help spread devotion to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, who was one of the three little shepherd children who witnessed the apparitions of Mary in Fátima in 1917.

Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, Peru, visits a settlement in La Esperanza district, in Trujillo, on June 5, 2023, and donates two houses to residents who lost their homes during the floods that hit northern Peru in March. The rains and floods helped to propagate the dengue virus epidemic in the country, which resulted in at least 248 deaths and 146,000 cases. (OSV News Photo/courtesy Trujillo Archdiocese)

After cyclone's destruction, Peruvians face dengue epidemic

Cyclone Yaku's path through Peru's northern region in March was so destructive that its direct effects — such as the destruction of homes by floods and landslides — and indirect effects — especially an unprecedented outbreak of dengue fever — are still being felt today.

Young women practice a school play that recalls their troubled history in the Escola São João in Quilombo Tiningu, near Santarém, Brazil.

Brazilian Franciscan works to raise Black teen girls' self-esteem in the Amazon

In vast regions of the Amazon, the presence of Black people has been historically invisible. Such a social denial of the Afro Brazilian heritage can be especially harsh on the self-esteem of Black teenagers. Franciscan Sr. Telma Barbosa fights against it.