America

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  3 February 2022
  AMERICA - Exclusion of poverty in the South American suburbs: new Report of the Dominican Missionaries Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The conditions of poverty, exploitation, inequalities in the peripheries in Latin America are at the center of the report of the "Misioneros Dominicos-Selvas Amazonicas" which is entitled "Sharin ...
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  2 February 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Like Pauline Jaricot, witnesses of Jesus in the mission": Missionary Childhood and Adolescence Day Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Jaricot, her life and her testimony have been the common thread of the animation of the National Day of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (JONIAM) 2022 promoted and organized by the P ...
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  1 February 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Centellas: "We must stop being adversaries and work together for the progress of our country, for the progress of each family" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – To live the love that comes from God, which helps us to always seek forgiveness and reconciliation among all, to do good above all to those who are furthest away and to love our enemies: this wa ...
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  1 February 2022
  AMERICA - Consecrated persons: "Searching for the Absolute: a spiritual therapy" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We are monks and nuns, members of contemplative orders, men and women religious dedicated to the apostolate, members of secular institutes and societies of apostolic life, consecrated virgins an ...
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  31 January 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Pain for the sacred images desecrated in a parish in Pehuajó Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an objective desecration of images which are loved and venerated. A wound to the believing sensibility of the parishioners, as well as a serious damage to the community's artistic a ...
• 31 January 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sr. Marina Aguilar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Sister Marina Aguilar, of the Santa Mariana de Jesus Institute ( ...
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  31 January 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "united in the efforts of all peacemakers, let us walk with them" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A message of consolation, closeness and accompaniment to people who suffer from violence and encouragement to all people of good will not to renounce the commitment to build peace, was sent ...
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  28 January 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Missionary Jubilee Year, a propitious time to relaunch missionary projects Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Jubilee Year with the theme "The Church in a permanent state of mission" and under the motto "You will be my witnesses" (Acts 1,8) officially began in the Brazilian Church last N ...
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  28 January 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Young catechists from Cochabamba ready for the mission Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - 34 young people from different parishes of the Archdiocese of Cochabamba have completed their formation phase, in the Casa del Catechista CADECA, to begin their service as catechists in their ...
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  27 January 2022
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Massacre of Jesuits: Film reconstructs what happened in 1989 and what is still happening today Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of November 16, 1989, in the midst of the Salvadoran civil war, six Jesuit priests, university professors and two office workers were murdered at the José Simeón Cañas Central A ...
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  27 January 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Missionary Year of Social Commitment opens in the Archdiocese of Cusco Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - On January 23, Sunday of the Word of God, Msgr. Richard Daniel Alarcón, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cusco, officially opened the "Missionary Year of Social Commitment" in the Archdiocese. In his h ...
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  26 January 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - May Christians be guardians of the environment, in solidarity with those who fight against the voracity of fire and drought Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask our Christian brothers to be custodians of the environment, we ask for solidarity and empathy with the authorities and volunteers who fight against the voracity of fire and drought, abo ...
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  26 January 2022
  AMERICA/HAITI - The recent earthquake do not stop the reconstruction work of the Camillian missionaries Jeremie (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the anniversary of the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 (see Fides, 13/1/2010), causing more than 250,000 victims and one and a half million homeless, on January 24, 2022 a ...
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  26 January 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The "Pact for Life and for Brazil" supports the vaccination of children and young people: right to life and health Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The signatories of the "Pact for Life and for Brazil" support the vaccination of children and young people, as is happening in several countries, as a sign of responsibility and a deep sense of ...
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  25 January 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Legalization of Cannabis: the bishops urge the authorities to evaluate the benefits and harms for the population San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Costa Rica have expressed their position on the legislative approval of the bill called "Law on Cannabis for medicinal and therapeutic use and Hemp for food and industrial use". ...