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David Agren

Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publisher serving millions of Catholics globally through its publishing and communication services. David Agren writes for OSV News from Mexico City.

Mexican bishops express solidarity with migrants amid protests in U.S. cities

June 12, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed solidarity with migrants “suffering persecution and violence” in the United States amid protests roiling Los Angeles.

20 days into new papacy, clues to Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style may lie in Chiclayo

May 28, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown — but his years leading the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, may offer clues. There, he prioritized lay leadership, promoted synodality and worked across ecclesial factions.

Mexican bishops condemn slaying of 7 young people at parish festival

May 21, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, World News

The Mexican bishops’ conference has condemned a massacre of seven young people — including minors — at a parish festival, while urging action on the part of authorities amid rising violence and warning the population to avoid indifference in the face of recurring atrocities.

Chiclayo, Peru — where Leo XIV was bishop — celebrates one of own becoming pope

May 12, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

Peruvians have greeted the election of Pope Leo with elation, pride and even disbelief that an adopted prelate whose pastoral formation came as a Augustinian missionary in poor and undeveloped parts of Peru could become pope and represent the country on the world stage.

Argentina bids farewell to native son Pope Francis with Mass that draws thousands

April 28, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News

Thousands gathered for a massive Mass outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires to remember the life and legacy of Pope Francis, whose ministry as archbishop in the Argentine capital of taking the church to the peripheries and prioritizing the poor became a template for his pontificate.

World leaders remember Pope Francis as an important international player

April 22, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News

World leaders offered condolences for Pope Francis almost immediately after the pontiff died April 21 — a reflection of popes’ importance in diplomacy and geopolitics.

Nicaragua cracks down further on church during Holy Week

April 14, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Police and paramilitaries maintained a heavy presence outside the Nicaraguan Managua cathedral on Palm Sunday, ensuring celebrations occurred entirely on church property — and sending a not-so-subtle message of intimidation.

Pope prays for victims of Dominican nightclub disaster

April 10, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News

Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a nightclub disaster in the Dominican Republic that claimed more than 200 lives and has provoked mourning across the Caribbean country.

Church urges protection of young after attack on Mexican youth group

March 24, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News

Masses were celebrated around the country March 23 as Catholics prayed for the victims of the attack, which claimed eight lives and left five injured, in the city of Salamanca in western Guanajuato state March 16.

The poor praying for Pope Francis’ health packed famous basilica in Buenos Aires province

March 19, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

Argentines working in humble barrios, or neighborhoods, and the people they serve, prayed for the health of Pope Francis at one of the country’s most important Catholic shrines — a show of affection and support from a population that the Holy Father made a priority in his time as local archbishop.

Mexican Catholics urge officials to ‘listen to victims’ amid grisly discovery of mass graves

March 17, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News

Mexico’s Catholic leaders prayed for the country’s missing and urged the population of the country and their political leaders to listen to victims of violence amid outrage over the discovery of mass graves and ovens for cremating bodies on a drug cartel compound.

Mexican bishop decry ‘cruelest’ expression of violence as cartel extermination camp discovered

March 14, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed outrage over the discovery of an extermination camp operated by a drug cartel, calling it “one of the cruelest expressions of evil and human misery that we’ve seen in the country,” and alleging such sites exist in other parts of Mexico.

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