Priest hit with object during demonstration in Dominican Republic

SÃO PAULO – Footage of a priest who was wounded on his face during a protest in the Dominican Republic went viral in the Caribbean nation and other Latin American countries.

Activists now hope that the outrage sparked by the attack on Father Yonny Durán in the city of Cotuí will draw popular support to the cause of the rural communities he’s assisting in their resistance to a mining project.

On Jan. 8, before dawn, members of five communities in Cotuí – in the Diocese of La Vega ...