St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Spanish Jesuit who spent more than 40 years of his life ministering to African slaves trafficked through the Colombian port of Cartagena. He entered the Society of ...

The president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, attributed this Friday to an “anonymous political and media campaign” the denunciation against him that he had had ...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced the appointment of Mauricio Claver-Carone as Special Envoy for Latin America at the U.S. State Department, reigniting attention on the controversial figure ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Archdiocese of New Orleans announced Wednesday that St. Peter Claver School will close at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. The N. Prieur Street school, which has 147 ...

The Knights of Peter Claver, the largest historically African-American Catholic lay organization in the U.S., is marking the anniversary of its founding with a Founder's Day Mass to be livestreamed to ...

Father Norman Fischer, a Catholic priest who ministered to hundreds of Lexingtonians from St. Peter Claver Church and as chaplain at Lexington Catholic High School, died on July 14 while traveling out ...

The likeness of St. Peter Claver is seen in stained glass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria, Ill. Canonized in 1888, St. Peter Claver is now considered the patron saint of human rights in Colombia.

Nearly 50 years after it was dedicated as the St. Peter Claver Center, the once-thriving Near Northside building is getting a new lease on life. Community members, including Trinity Church pastor Kim ...

President Trump has nominated Mauricio Claver-Carone to head the Inter-American Development Bank, based in Washington, D.C. Getty Images Mauricio Claver-Carone, an adviser to President Donald Trump ...