America

• 14 March 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops against free trade of drugs Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, His Exc. Mgr. Socrates Rene Sándigo, Bishop of Juigalpa, has declard to be against the decriminalization of the drug trade in Central Ame ...
• 13 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity to the Archbishop of Huancayo threatened to death for having sought assurances on health and decent work for the workers in La Oroya Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Directorate-General of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, based in Rome, Italy, I would like to express our support to the President of the Department of Justice and S ...
• 13 March 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Street children and migrants forced to prostitution in exchange for food and money Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child prostitution continues to be a very sad plague among the people of Tapachula. An average of 80 children roam the streets, using drugs like marijuana and solvents. Each ...
• 13 March 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - What's really going on in Haiti? Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, has asked the authorities of Haiti to inform about what is really happening in the country, because any major event ...
• 12 March 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "The God of life does not want death": the appeal of Cardinal Terrazas after the recent episodes of violence Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - We are called to urgent and concrete answers to everything that is opposed to life, because God's Word is clear when he says "Thou shalt not kill". In this, God is determined, clear and preci ...
• 12 March 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Caritas Campaign against violence, to respect the dignity and human rights Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign launched by Caritas at a national level, intends to recover in Honduras those deep Christian values such as respect for human dignity and human rights, tolerance, solidarity and ...
• 10 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Re-evaluate the role of women in the Peruvian Amazon: An exhibition of missionaries Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Centro Cultural Jose Pio Aza, of the Order of the Dominicans, has organized the photo exhibition "The Amazon with a Woman’s face". As reported to Fides by a note from the Peruvian Episcopal C ...
• 10 March 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Pope in Mexico: the Church protagonist of the mass-media, full coverage on TV Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, after five visits of the Blessed John Paul II in Mexico, the Mexican Church will be responsible for full television coverage of the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in Mexico. ...
• 9 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Agreement of cooperation between Church and State to promote religious assistance in prisons and social reintegration of detainees Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) and the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru (INPE) signed an agreement renewing the cooperation ties between the two institutions. ...
• 9 March 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - At the Guadalajara Film Festival a documentary about the harsh reality of a "journey of hope" of Central American migrants Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Illegal immigrants in the United States in a few years will found the political and social system of that country: this was said by the Mexican priest Alejandro Solalinde who presented in Gu ...
• 8 March 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA-Immediate suspension of the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Project, the first agreement between the parties Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Panama and indigenous leaders belonging to the ethnic group Ngäbe Bugle have agreed to a temporary suspension of the controversial hydroelectric project Barro Blanco (see ...
• 8 March 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A radio and a TV online gives voice to children and present missionary activity Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni missionaries in Colombia will put a radio online and a virtual television from March 15 to "present to the world the Church's missionary activity" and "sensitize the people on the mis ...
• 7 March 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-The commitment to human ecology and the environment is a responsibility for every Christian Catamarca (Agenzia Fides) -The Bishops of NOA (Northwest Argentina) have called for a "credible and honest dialogue" between the political and social institutions, in particular, on issues related to the mining industry ...
• 7 March 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The problem of Haitian migration, priorities for the Bishops’ meeting Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of the Dominican Republic and Haiti will meet next Monday, March 12 in Santo Domingo to analyze the problems of the two nations and the progress of the process of rebuilding th ...
• 7 March 2012
  AMERICA - Fr.Kino, missionary "straddling" between different people’s and cultures whose message is still relevant Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The tercentenary of the death of a man who belongs to different people’s and nations ends in these days. Italian by birth, from the Val di Non, Trentino; but German for the education and format ...