America

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  12 July 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY- The Bishops: "With Christ we must be medicine in this time of the pandemic and post-pandemic" Asuncion (Agenzua Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay, "aware that the evangelical path of listening, synodality, dialogue and consultation, constitutes the appropriate medicine for social health", they entrust themselves t ...
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  10 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops to the authorities: "immediately begin a vaccination campaign" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Venezuela, gathered virtually, have asked for the launch of an immunization campaign against COVID-19 in the country, "with vaccines recognized by the international health authori ...
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  9 July 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New arrests, "may the will of citizens and the human rights of all Nicaraguans be respected" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the electoral panorama, we must demand respect for the popular vote with the available means, so that the elections are credible, just and transparent", says the "Justice and Peace" Commi ...
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  9 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops at the end of the Assembly: "It's time to walk together" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us make our own all the voices that cry out for a supportive and just country. Our gaze is confident even knowing the serious problems that afflict us and all the efforts we must make to fi ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Camillian Missionaries at the forefront to give concrete answers to the bewildered population Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A few hours ago, the news spread in the local press that the Haitian police had killed four "mercenaries" and arrested two others, believed to be responsible for the ambush that killed fo ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Day of Native Vocations: "May no vocation be lost due to lack of economic resources" Quito (Ecuador) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Ecuador have organized a series of online activities in this month of July, as part of the celebration of the National Day of Prayer and Solidarity in favor of ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops after the assassination of President Moise: "Choose fraternal coexistence in the interest of all and in the interest of Haiti!" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Whatever it is, life must be respected from conception to natural death. That is why we strongly condemn the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. As missionaries we appeal to the u ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An indigenous catechist, defender of rights, assassinated, the diocese's complaints on the increasing violence in Chiapas are not heard San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - "With pain we have learned of the murder of our brother Simón Pedro Pérez López, an indigenous Tzozil, catechist of the parish of Santa Catarina, in Pantelho, diocese of San Cristóbal ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Haitian immigrants forbidden to take the bus or ask for rides, the Church welcomes them into the communities Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome immigrants in our temples, in the churches of our communities in Quebradas, Cifuentes and San José de Mata Guineo. How sad it is that they cannot travel by bus or that they cann ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops elect their new Presidency and pay tribute to the 148 pastoral workers who died of Covid Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogotá, Monsignor Luis José Rueda Aparicio, has been elected President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) for the three-year period 2021-2024. The election took pl ...
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  6 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Women on mission: "A missiological reflection starting from women" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The evangelizing mission of the Church around the world relies largely on the participation of women, who are at the forefront both in work in small communities and in coordinating roles in nat ...
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  6 July 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "Nicaragua is bleeding" due to repression, emigration, pandemic, hunger Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, said last Sunday, July 4, that there are people in the country who "want to take power away from the Church", in the midst of the loca ...
• 6 July 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Resignation and appointment of vicar apostolic of Esmeraldas Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July, 5th 2021, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, presented by Bishop Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C. ...
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  5 July 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The eight vicariates of the Peruvian Amazon in the same web portal Amazonas (Agenzia Fides) - Under the domain www.queridaamazonia.pe, the new website of the Amazon Center for Anthropology and Practical Application is already operational. This web information portal represents the REPAM ...
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  3 July 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Two thematic forums, open to all, on the missionary action of the Church La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - In this time dedicated to listening, in the path foreseen by the Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean (see Fides, 25/1/2021), the Pontifical Mission Societies of Bolivia and the ...