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Monsignor Patricio Larrosa has been ordained and installed as bishop of the Diocese of Danlí in eastern Honduras, pledging to focus his ministry on vulnerable communities affected by migration, poverty, and violence.

A storm exposed the ancient bones of a giant sloth in San Esteban, Olancho, prompting a joint excavation by Honduras's Institute of Anthropology and History and U.S. Fulbright paleontologist Greg McDonald.

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.

Heavy rains in western Honduras caused the partial roof collapse of the Santiago de Posta Church in Santa Bárbara, a 17th-century structure built in 1600 that residents say has suffered years of neglect and lack of maintenance by heritage authorities.

The Banda San Isidro, a youth ensemble of 12-to-17-year-olds from La Ceiba, performed before Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square and met the pontiff after the concert, with access arranged through Honduras's ambassador to the Holy See.