In the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border, religious workers from the Roman Catholic Church on Long Island have helped build aqueducts to give people clean drinking water for the first time.

After 30 years of collaborating with Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic’s Roman Catholic hierarchy broke sharply with the strong-man last year. In a pastoral letter signed ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – An evangelical couple in the Dominican Republic has become the first pair to marry under a new law recognizing religious weddings not held in a Roman Catholic ...

The Dominican Republic ... Spanish is the official language, and the country is heavily Roman Catholic. Culturally, the nation reflects its Spanish colonial heritage as well as some African ...

press and assembly,” Dictator Rafael Trujillo has spared no effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal ...