America

• 20 October 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Bill: Churches can also collect illegal weapons San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of different Puerto Rican Churches have positively welcomed the draft law providing for an amnesty of 60 days during which anyone with a weapon, can deliver it to the police or chur ...
• 19 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA- A member of the Social Pastoral, committed to the farmers and builders of peace in Popayan was assassinated Popayan (Agenzia Fides) - The National Secretariat of the Social Pastoral of the Bishops' Conference of Colombia issued a statement of solidarity with Luis Eduardo Garcia’s family, leader of the group of Popayan, assas ...
• 19 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Missionary Congresses, conferences, peace marches, missionary rosaries in parishes: Nicaragua prepares itself for World Mission Day Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the celebration of World Mission Sunday 2011 (Domund), the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Nicaragua have started the preparation for this great missionary celebration since th ...
• 18 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Forum "Migration and Peace": promoting human dignity and peaceful coexistence as a universal right for all Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 and 21 October 2011, as part of the National Week of the Migrant, the third International Forum on Migration and Peace will be held in Mexico City, organized by the National Institute ...
• 18 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - At the start the anti-corruption plan; the Cardinal of Monterrey: "clean house completely" Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Monterrey, defined the anti-corruption plan proposed by governor Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz very positive and addressed in the right direc ...
• 17 October 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA-The march for peace: a Catholic response to the wave of violence that kills 18 Guatemalans every day Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala (Guatemala), Mgr. Oscar Julio Vian Morales has invited the community to participate in the "March for Peace" and the Eucharist to be held on Octobe ...
• 17 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church assists more than 3,500 people affected by torrential rains San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - It has been raining constantly for 8 days and this phenomenon has devastated El Salvador causing 32 deaths so far. The danger now is landslides in areas of low mountains, floodings in citi ...
• 15 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Fraud and buying votes": Bishops alert the population and the authorities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the Church is present even in the farthest corner of Colombia, we know of vote buying, voter migration, counterfeit ballots and the fact that even the dead start to vote. We stress that no ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA - "The Church in Latin America is alive, despite the difficult situation in different countries": interview with His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, President of CELAM Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From October 6 to 12, the members of the Presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), led by their President, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Monitoring program for victims of violence in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Official statistics speak of 3 million people who have been dispossessed from their lands and properties in Colombia because of armed conflicts that have affected the country for years. The prote ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - While the country is experiencing a climate of high tension, the Bishops stress that "dialogue is the path to solve problems" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia issued a separate statement to help calm the tense atmosphere that lives in the country. In the note sent to Fides, together with the Bishops’ statement, we ...
• 13 October 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionaries from 11 countries are studying the Brazilian reality in which they will work Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the Mission Cultural Center of Brazil twenty missionaries from abroad are participating in the 106th edition of the course promoted by CENFI (Center for Intercultural Formation) as an intro ...
• 12 October 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - 5 years of service to the communication of the Cuban Catholic communities Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Maria Celli, sent a letter to His Exc. Mgr. Wilfredo Pino, Bishop of Guantánamo and the President of the ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - A special Mission Day, with the relics of St. Teresa at the headquarters of the PMS and the first "virtual Campaign" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru always celebrate with immense intensity the month of October and World Mission Sunday. This year in particular there is even another reason of joy: t ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - A school for the poorest of the poor San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 boys and girls, who mainly come from poor families, attend St. Louise School in El Salvador. It is an oasis of peace away from the city drowned by drugs, violence and rebellio ...