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Pope Leo XIV met with nine bishops of Honduras's Episcopal Conference at the Vatican, urging the Church to strengthen education for peace and dialogue as a way to counter violence and build a more fraternal society.

Franklin Núñez Palacios, a Honduran content creator known as 'La Tafloo,' was arrested in Houston, Texas on September 25 and faces a preliminary charge of domestic assault involving a family member, with questions about his immigration status and possible deportation.

Lester Abel Martínez, a social-media communicator and owner of the Revista Digital Honduras page with 140,000 followers, has died in Madrid after a brief illness; he was 28.

Ella Laboriel, a singer and actress of Honduran descent who broke ground in Mexican rock during the 1960s and worked across music, film, and theater, died of a pulmonary illness in Tampico at 77.

Sofía Reyna, wife of entertainer Luis Alfonso 'Pompo' Campa of the Mexican group Los Payasónicos, died on July 3 after a seven-year battle with brain cancer, leaving behind her husband and their son Derek.

Gabriela Verónica Fleritt, a Venezuelan actress and comedian who appeared on 'Bienvenidos'—a show rebroadcast on Honduras's Canal 5—was killed on June 24 when powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela, destroying buildings in Caracas and La Guaira and killing an estimated 1,500 people.

Marco Tulio Rodas Matamoros, 28, a sports producer for Televicentro's TVC Deportes in Honduras, drowned after being caught in a rip current at El Zonte beach in El Salvador.