America

• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Isolated due to the rain and without the aid of the authorities, "but we are also Paraguayans", cries the Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - The isolation and abandonment in which state authorities have long since left the population of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguay, Paraguay, was strongly denounced by the Apostolic Vicar, ...
• 26 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - After 10 years, President Kirchner takes part in the Te Deum for the national holiday Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli, presided yesterday, Sunday 25 May, the celebration of the Eucharist and the Te Deum of thanksgiving in the Metropolitan Cathedra ...
• 26 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From America to Africa: Missionary Sending at the conclusion of the First American Congress of IAM Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - With the celebration of the Missionary Sending in the auditorium of the Shrine of Aparecida, the First Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (IAM) of America (see Fides 15/05/2014; ...
• 26 May 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Meeting with the candidates: an initiative of the Church for the October elections Chuquisaca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops and the heads of the Social Pastoral-Caritas Bolivia have proposed dialogue meetings with the candidates of the upcoming general elections in October, in order to elaborate togeth ...
• 23 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Statement of the diocese: The boys did not launch grenades at the police Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Tumaco casts doubt on the version of the National Police, according to which on May 14, two boys (Pier Angelo Cabezas and Luis Sebastian Preciado) had launched a grenade at a group ...
• 23 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The First American Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence thenestnjdneatndjenjndjetnjdneatn Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 23, the First Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (IAM), begins and will end on Sunday 25th. The congress will be held at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - On a mission in the vulnerable suburbs of society: migrants, itinerant people, displaced ... City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 delegates, including Bishops, priests, religious women and lay people, all engaged in pastoral work with migrants, refugees and displaced persons, the apostolate of the Sea, and touri ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Three thousand children involved in drug trafficking: alarm of the local authorities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of 2014, 3000 children and 37 000 adults have been involved in micro drug trafficking and have been arrested. According to estimates by the Colombian National Police, the phen ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Dialogue between the Church and government begins: "In search of new horizons for a better Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) met yesterday afternoon, 21 May, in the Apostolic Nunciature, with the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, paving the way for dialog ...
• 21 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The "Jubilee USA Network" campaign for finance at the service of man Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe that the support of the Holy See and of the leaders of the Church throughout the world is crucial to put pressure on governments": This is what representatives of "Jubilee USA N ...
• 21 May 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Dialogue resumes, but we need facts not promises Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Foreign Ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the apostolic Nuncio in Caracas highlighted the willingness of the government of Venezuela and of the participants at th ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church on the eve of talks with the government: problems are not solved by ignoring them Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is ready to open dialogue with the Government of Nicaragua: the first meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21 (see Fides 09/05/2014; 14/05/2014). On Sunday aft ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Integrating Mayan disabled children by developing their artistic skills Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Scorned and very often segregated into their homes, hundreds of Mayan disabled children and adolescents are a tool to overcome discrimination and increase their creativity in developing their art ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Violence in parts of Central America also encourages children to emigrate alone San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Bishops of the United States of America, Mexico and Central America meet to discuss major issues related to the complex phenomenon of migration. The meeting, whic ...
• 19 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Tumaco: "here the State has not existed for years, childhood is abandoned to its fate" Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - "In Tumaco children are taken away by the FARC and criminal gangs, they are simply taken away for their war": is the complaint by His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo Giron Higuita, OCD, Bishop of Tumaco, who p ...