America

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  7 September 2019
  AMERICA - Bible Month oriented towards the Extraordinary Missionary Month Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As a tradition, the month of September is celebrated as the "Month of the Bible" in various nations of Latin America and other continents, in memory of St. Jerome, the first translator of the Holy ...
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  6 September 2019
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In memory of Mgr. Proaño the natives ask for respect Quito (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the 31st anniversary of the death of Mgr. Leonidas Proaño, celebrated in various cities of the country, the Catholic community asks to seriously consider the indigenous reality ...
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  6 September 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops' appeal to legislators: need to ensure full freedom of education Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Authentic education is an act that requires full freedom and responsibility. Without a clear and right intention to educate, action is contaminated by other interests, not transcendent nor ...
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  5 September 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Newark’s Cardinal Tobin joins Catholics protesting immigration detention Newark (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, CSsR, Archbishop of Newark, yesterday joined a demonstration of hundreds of people that took place in Newark to denounce the inhuman treatment of immigrant children. Abo ...
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  5 September 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops' message for the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "let us keep the fire of the mission lit in dioceses and parishes!" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome with great joy the indication of Pope Francis to live the 2019 Extraordinary Missionary Month" Baptized and sent" and we invite all of you to do it with intensity, in fidelity ...
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  4 September 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Week of prayer for peace and justice announced by the Bishops, in a tense climate Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) has announced a week of prayer for the country with the motto "Justice and peace will kiss each other"; inspired by Psalm 85, which begins on September ...
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  3 September 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "¡Todos a la misión!": A 72-hour event for the Extraordinary Missionary Month Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Reviving the missionary conscience, reaching the environments in which the Church is not present, making it effective for the announcement of Jesus Christ, remembering that we live in a per ...
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  3 September 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week for Peace while a revival of armed conflict is feared Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The 32nd edition of the "Week for Peace" has opened in Colombia, an initiative that seeks to make the efforts of many Colombians working to build a country of peace and reconciliation visible. "I ...
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  2 September 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - Need to promote initiatives to overcome the crisis; the contribution of consecrated life to the life of the country Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - From August 28 to 31 three representatives of CLAR, the Latin American Confederation of Religious, namely Sr. Daniela Cannavina, HCMR, (General Secretary), Sr. Mónica Benavides, HDV (Dep ...
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  31 August 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Mass entirely in Guaraní, an aid for evangelization Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - All that is needed to celebrate a Mass in the Guaraní language is now officially available on a new website edited by the Jesuits of Paraguay. The website www.misaguarani.com was officially la ...
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  31 August 2019
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Protection of the common home in the Amazon regards the survival of the whole world Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is critical in all of the Amazon, especially in Brazil and Bolivia, where fires in recent days have reached an impressive extent, destroying thousands of kilometers of woodland ...
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  30 August 2019
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA-CUBA - Concrete signs of vitality and hope from Missionary Childhood and Adolescence San José (Agenzia Fides) - On August 17th more than a hundred children participated in the National Meeting of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (MCA) which took place in the Archdiocese of San José, Costa Rica, wit ...
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  29 August 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Community calls for the release of political prisoners: a church besieged by police Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - We are witnessing the violation of fundamental rights and lack of security in the social life of the country, in a situation that is worsening day by day: this is what the Catholic Church and civ ...
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  28 August 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops: "In a multi-ethnic country, dignity and integration for all" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are a country of all races ("Todas las sangres" ed), multi-ethnic and multicultural, where there is room for everyone and we all have to work for a dignified life, based on interculturality, fu ...
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  27 August 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Bishops: "Our common home is on fire; we must exercise the prophetic mission" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With the evocative title "Our common home is on fire" the Bolivian Amazon Church has issued a statement that highlights concern and clamor for the catastrophe of fires and the consequences of ...