As word spread among Catholics that immigration agents were visiting places of worship to carry out deportations, the pews ...

A social explosion in Panama has led the Church to publicly call for dialogue and peace, appointed as immediate conditions for potential solutions to emerge.

Catholic organizations, bishops and religious have issued a statement condemning a mining company and the government for seeking profit at the cost of protecting the environment.

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week.

Later this month, Hegseth is expected to visit Panama, where discussions on increasing U.S. troop presence in the canal zone will take place.

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that would flood the homes of thousands of people.

The Americans took control beyond the Canal Zone, to ensure there were no “foul Spanish Negro Indian camps of disease at either end of the Canal.” In the shantytowns of Colon, Cristobal and Panama ...

In 1903 the young country of Panama signed a treaty with the United States allowing the construction and control of the Panama Canal Zone. The treaty placed the Panamanians at a disadvantage ...

The trip was as much about Central America as it was about China as the Trump administration aims to reclaim American influence and authority in the continent.