Ongoing political instability threatens to seriously undermine long-term development gains in Honduras, one of Central America’s poorest nations, says Progressio on the eve of the presidential elections there.

A top-level delegation of international Christian leaders has visited Washington DC to advocate for the cessation of widespread human rights violations in Honduras.

Mission workers from the United Methodist Church have called on US President Obama "to take whatever diplomatic and economic steps are necessary" to restore the deposed Honduran President.

An earthquake of 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Honduras at midnight two days ago. The epicentre of the two-minute quake was the Caribbean coast just north of Bay Islands. Suggestions of another quake is adding to tensions.