America

• 16 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The State is collapsing, opening the door to criminal gangs" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The Haitian people are a martyred people (...) and the Church that is in communion with this people lives this suffering in its flesh", said Father Marc-Henry Siméon, spokesman for the ...
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  15 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Children and adults of the Pourcine Pic Makaya community: a people of heroes by Father Massimo Miraglio* Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – Every morning, around 250 children walk for hours along steep and dangerous paths to reach the primary and nursery school in Pourcine Pic Makaya, wh ...
• 15 April 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Pilcomayo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Miguel Fritz, O.M.I., until now apostolic administrator of Pilcomayo, Paraguay, as vicar apostolic of the same apostolic vicariate. The Rever ...
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  14 April 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nazareno Lanciotti, missionary and martyr, will be proclaimed Blessed São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – "We have come to kill you because you bother us too much." These were the last words Father Nazareno Lanciotti heard before he was shot dead in his rectory in Jauru, in the Brazilian state ...
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  4 April 2025
  AMERICA/USA - Kansas: Priest shot in rectory Seneca (Agenzia Fides) – Father Arul Carasala, parish priest of the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Seneca, a city in the north east of Kansas, was shot dead by a man on Thursday, April 3, while in his rectory. Acc ...
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  3 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Mirebalais: Two nuns killed by armed gangs Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Two nuns of the "Little Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus" were murdered in Mirebalais, in central Haiti, by members of armed gangs who infiltrated the area since last Monday. T ...
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  3 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Foyer Saint Camille" inaugurates ward for premature babies Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Providing modern care environments that are better adapted to the needs of the population and adequate for staff is one of the key elements of our health plan to make the network of heal ...
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  28 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A society that gives space to God, that seeks to be guided by Him is a society that is a sign of hope La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - "Social pastoral care is a fundamental dimension of the Church's mission, which seeks to make the Kingdom of God present amidst the difficulties and challenges of daily life," said Dante Braida ...
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  20 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “To have come out of hell, and to proclaim that Christ is risen”. The Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo network and the new mission of Father Charly
  by Monica Poletto Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A great celebration accompanied the seventeenth ‘anniversary’ of the Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo in Buenos Aires, which ...
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  19 March 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A network of paths for human and economic development in Pourcine Pic Makaya Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - In Pourcine Pic Makaya, the sowing season is coming to an end. The next two months will be difficult for the people awaiting the harvest. They have "put everything they have in the form of mone ...
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  7 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Diocese of La Rioja and the Lenten Season: “authentic conversion for the renewal of our lives and that of our communities” La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) – “We begin the season of Lent in the midst of a Jubilee Year and seeking to implement the conclusions of the Synod on Synodality in the Church” is what Dante Braida, Bishop of La Rioja, ha ...
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  5 March 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - “Educating to create a supportive and fraternal community”: literacy school for young people and adults Jeremie (Agenzia Fides) – “I have returned to Jeremie for a few days to stock up on supplies so I can continue with community activities. With the March 8th celebration approaching, the parish, together with the wome ...
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  3 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Popular religiosity: distinctive feature of the City of All Saints of Nueva Rioja La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) – La Rioja is known for its rich popular religiosity, which reflects a combination of indigenous beliefs, colonial traditions and Christian elements. In other words, religious celebrations are ...
• 21 February 2025
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 9, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization - Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches - appointed Msgr. Carlos ...
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  13 February 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Diocese of La Rioja celebrates the Tinkunaco festival as part of the 90th anniversary of its foundation La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of La Rioja celebrated the 90th anniversary of its foundation and the beginning of the Jubilee Year. Bishop Dante Braida presided over the numerous masses and participated in most o ...