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.

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 ...

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 ...

He started working as a consultant for Cross Catholic Outreach, an international development and relief ministry. In 2012, he went back to the Dominican Republic to spend time with his parents.

Like all Catholic churches built in Mexico before 1992, the church is federal property, so repairing it is the responsibility of the civil authorities. Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals ... a 54-year-old tourist from the Dominican Republic, was deeply moved to find herself by chance in the heart of Roman Catholicism as the church plans ...