America

• 19 June 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The new Communications Law has been approved Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With 108 votes in favor, 26 against and one abstention, after four years the new communications law was approved. The approval was made without discussion (the discussion was already made in the p ...
• 19 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - The indigenous and peasant communities, risk being the "human" suburbs, the priorities of the Populorum Progressio Foundation Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Autonomous Populorum Progressio Foundation assigned, since its founding in 1992, to the Pontifical Council Cor Unum is being held. As every ...
• 18 June 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The government has not yet responded to the peace initiative of the gangs," said Mgr. Emiliani San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "There has not been so far a clear and obvious response from the government to support the peace process, we are still in time to save Honduras from violence," said Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, ...
• 18 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Communicator, witness of faith - to become the voice of the voiceless Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The construction of networks at a departmental, regional and national level is the challenge of the XI National Meeting of Communicators and Social Media of the Catholic Church, which was hel ...
• 17 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "To burn people alive, film them and then sell the video is the sign of ethical decline" San Cristobal de las Casas - (Agenzia Fides) - "We are facing ethical decline." This is how the Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel described the lynching of three people burnt alive". W ...
• 17 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Cardinal Sarah’s visit to Caritas del Callao: "We must put human dignity at the center" Callao (Agenzia Fides) - On June 13, Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" visited the Diocese of Callao, in Peru, who was invited by the local Bishop, Msg. José Luis del Palacio. The Car ...
• 17 June 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Dengue: cases in cities increase Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week, the hope of reducing the incidence of dengue fever weakens, the danger lurks in the houses putting at risk the health and lives of Hondurans," says a note sent to our agency by ...
• 14 June 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Campaign in favor of the elderly with financial difficulties Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Punta Arenas, through a campaign entitled "Fraternal Magallanes," has launched a pilot project for the elderly abandoned or who barely survive without assistance. The projec ...
• 14 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - National Migration Week, no to human trafficking Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "No to human trafficking and smuggling of migrants: challenges for the New Evangelization", this is the campaign sponsored by the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conferenc ...
• 13 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Health cannot become a business" Church's appeal for health care reform Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Colombian Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez has made an urgent appeal to the Government authority and Congress so that the health care reform, currently under discussion is carried out in a dignified, ...
• 12 June 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Second National Ecclesial Assembly: Recognize the signs of the times beside the poor Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "To conduct a national experience of ecclesial communion through the discernment of the signs of the times, in order to be a Church in a state of permanent mission to proclaim the Kingdom and d ...
• 12 June 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The poor cannot wait," meeting of Caritas Latin America and the Caribbean Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The poor cannot wait. The right to adequate and balanced diet is essential. This campaign has its foundation in the need that we all unite with one force to combat the scourge of hunger in the ...
• 11 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The disarmament campaign continues with the help of the Church: More than 5000 weapons recovered Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In the first five months of 2013, the government of the Federal District collected, in 15 of the 16 delegations of the city, 5,522 firearms. It is a fact that confirms the good outcome of th ...
• 10 June 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Let us defend our water": Mgr. Escobar’s appeal San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar, suggested yesterday, in his usual press conference on Sunday, that an appeal should be addressed to international organizations to c ...
• 10 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Filing immigrants is a shame", denounces Fr. Solalinde Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a degrading and embarrassing act for our Central American brothers and sisters who are filed as soon as they cross the southern border of Mexico," is the complaint by Fr Alejandro Sol ...