America

• 16 December 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Last round of by-elections, the local Church sends observers to polling stations Penonomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Panama has announced that it will appoint observers for the by-elections of 21 December 2014. The note sent to Agenzia Fides explains that elctions are being held in Pan ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL – Foreign missionaries in Brazil: socio-cultural immersion before the mission Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On December 12 with the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, n.112 edition of the Course of Missionary initiation of the Intercultural Formation Center (Cenfi) concluded. Organized by the Missionary ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church reminds authorities that they even have to respond to the law for their actions León (Agenzia Fides) - In response to President Enrique Peña Nieto, who a few days ago said that one has to "move past" the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, the Archdiocese of León instead asked the Presid ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Conclusion of the 10th "Caravan of hope": 9 missing migrants found Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The tenth caravan of a group of 40 Central American mothers ended on December 7th, who after 17 days of travel managed to find nine migrants. The note sent to Fides reports of cases like th ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - SOS of the Bishop on the proliferation of dengue fever Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the growing number of patients with dengue fever, the Bishop of the Diocese of Cúcuta (Colombia), Mgr. Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz, highlighted the situation in this part of the countr ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Analysis of the socio-cultural impacts of mining and contribution of missionaries Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - Destruction of nature, the exclusion of indigenous people from social life, human trafficking: these are some of the effects of the extraction of natural resources in South eastern Peru ...
• 11 December 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drug and human trafficking: "There are people who have money stained with blood in their pocket" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Drug and human trafficking are criminal activities carried out by organized criminal gangs, who earn territories with corruption in various structures of society and the State. Some people ...
• 11 December 2014
  AMERICA - The new land of the "landless", a living and current history Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of the movement of the "landless" of Brazil, who continue to struggle in search of their own fate, like that of other similar movements of the continent, is presented in the n. 27 ...
• 10 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church close to the families of the missing students and engaged in proposing solutions Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Bishops expressed their condolences to Ezequiel Mora, father of Alexander, one of 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, whose remains have been identified by experts (see Fides 10/1 ...
• 10 December 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Church-Government meeting on the Interoceanic Canal Managua (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the march scheduled for today, December 10, against the construction of the Interoceanic Canal between the Pacific and the Atlantic, which would expel thousands of farmers from the ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – After14 years ordination of 9 Indigenous permanent deacons San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – Nine members of the Tzeltales Indigenous peoples were ordained as permanent deacons on 2 December in the community of Guadalupe Paxilhá, Chilo city. The news was announced ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Foyer Bethlehem: “giving persons with disabilities what nature and human indifference have denied them” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – In Haïti the cost of living is very high, the country is forced to important everything from abroad. The situation of the people is precarious and living conditions of persons with di ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Young man dies to obtain justice San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – A sad" and "desperate act": said Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of the diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Chiapas - Mexico), referring to the tragic gesture of a yo ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty, few infrastructures and precarious preventive measures: fertile terrain for Chikungunya virus Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cases of the Chikungunya virus (acute fever) registered in Venezuela are double those found in 37 other countries. According to the All-American Health Organisation, the pandemic can be consid ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Torreón calls for “more proposals and less protests to achieve peace” Torreón (Agenzia Fides) – “More proposals and less protests, to restore peace” Bishop José Guadalupe Galván Galindo of the diocese of Torreón, Coahuila (Mexico), urged the diocese community, preparing to celebr ...