One year since Honduran Catholic leader and environmental activist Juan López was shot dead by several men as he travelled ...

(RNS) — Catholic leaders throughout the Americas are expressing grief and outrage at the killing of Juan Antonio López, a Honduran environmental activist and local Catholic leader, in Tocoa, in ...

In Honduras, a prominent anti-mining activist was gunned down Saturday as he left a church in his northeastern town of Tocoa. Juan López was a member of the ruling LIBRE party and campaigned against ...

A judge in Honduras ordered three men to stand trial for the murder last year of an enviromental activist who opposed the ...

TOCOA, Honduras — Seven bullets pounded into Juan López outside a small white church on a sunny September afternoon. Six shots in the chest. One in the head. And a masked gunman standing in front of ...

As hired gunmen kill human rights leaders to protect private interests, transnational corporations are suing Honduras for halting “mafia-style” investments made during coup-instituted regimes, before ...