This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inmates from ...

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Alejandro Duron’s life changed in minutes when the envelope appeared under his front door. The note inside demanded that the 34-year-old systems analyst pay $2,500 for the ...

(RNS) — When an impoverished neighborhood’s biggest obstacle is its murder rate, no amount of food donations and micro-loans will alleviate suffering. Sociologist Kurt Ver Beek knows this firsthand.

In the hills above the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Cecilia* points towards a vacant house, teetering on an eroding slope. Like so many in the neighbourhood, it was not so much abandoned as emptied ...

An NGO report reveals seven alleged political killings targeting candidates seeking or holding municipal office.

At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has ...

TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' two largest and most violent gangs will sign a truce next week and ask for a dialogue with the government and police to help them start leaving their gang lifestyle, a Roman ...

Kevin Portillo, 17, works out with a homemade barbell in a space that will eventually be a gym. The space was formerly a casa loca or madhouse, one of many criminal lairs in Honduras. In this part of ...

(RNS) — The Association for a More Just Society believes justice goes beyond charity and development work to tackle the structural barriers preventing communities from thriving. (RNS) — When an ...