America

• 24 July 2025
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 26, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father José Albe ...
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  23 July 2025
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The first summit of the U.S. Catholic Mission Association in Milwaukee Waukesha (Agenzia Fides) – Today and tomorrow, the United States Catholic Mission Association (USCMA), in collaboration with the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and t ...
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  23 July 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - World Day against Trafficking in Persons: Mobilizing society against situations that hide exploitation Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Breaking the silence and dispelling the myths surrounding human trafficking, promoting recognition of this reality in everyday contexts that often go unnoticed. This is the objective of the c ...
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  22 July 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Dialogue as a means of conflict resolution: solidarity of the Aboriginal Pastoral Care with the Mapuche communities Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) – “Let all forms of violence and, above all, the criminalization of the ongoing protest cease immediately. Social peace is only possible through dialogue as a tool to address different social ...
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  17 July 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Father Mario Lanciotti, Xaverian missionary, among myths, tales, and legends of the indigenous people of the Amazon by Gianluca Frinchillucci Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A new light is shining on missionary witness among the peoples of the Amazon. Professor Mario Polia, anthropologist, historian of religions, and profound expert on ...
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  16 July 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - Presidential Election: The country in chaos amid violence, corruption, and organized crime Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "I call on the presidential candidates to respect the dignity of their opponents; never to use violence, in any form, as a political method; to be an example of civic culture, generosi ...
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  15 July 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - The Argentine Church's missionary contribution in the Peruvian Amazon Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation from the Argentine Bishops' Conference, sent to Peru on behalf of the National Team of the Amazon Project, aims to support the proclamation of the Gospel, provide assistance in addre ...
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  14 July 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Camillians celebrate their founder by dreaming of a clinic for the people of Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast day of Saint Camillus of Lellis, founder of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick (MI), Father Massimo Miraglio, parish priest of the small community of Pourcine Pic-Makaya, sha ...
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  11 July 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary life is itinerant: Consolata novices between rivers and hopes Manaus (Agenzia Fides) – “The mission not only leads to Jesus, but also discovers him already present in every smile, in every stroke of the oar, in every simple gesture of love.” Sérgio Warnes, a novice at the IM ...
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  10 July 2025
  AMERICA/USA - California: Illegal immigrants also "taken" from parishes San Bernardino (Agenzia Fides) – They are being taken from the streets or public places, and even from parish churches. In California, the policy of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which carries out h ...
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  9 July 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Integrating the language of the head, the heart, and the hands: meeting of Catholic Educators Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – “To establish a joint network throughout the country and establish common priorities for educational pastoral care in schools, based on listening to different realities” was the objec ...
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  8 July 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The children of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní celebrate their Jubilee Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) – “Children and adolescents, you know Jesus, now go and invite other children.” With these simple words, Monsignor Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas, Apostolic Vicar of Caroní since Ap ...
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  7 July 2025
  AMERICA/USA - The religious connotations of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an organization responsible for distributing food to the population of Gaza, has been led since June 3 by evangelical preacher Johnnie Moore Jr., considered ...
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  2 July 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Shots fired at dawn in the streets of Villahermosa: Priest seriously injured Villahermosa (Agenzia Fides) – The parish priest of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Father Héctor Alejandro Pérez, remains in critical condition at the Rovirosa Hospital in Villahermosa. The priest was shot seve ...
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  21 June 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Salesians distribute work kits to fishermen in difficulty after the environmental disaster in Esmeraldas Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) – On March 13, 2025, a pipeline rupture in the province of Esmeraldas, northwest Ecuador, caused a huge amount of oil to spill into the river of the same name, which gives the region its name ...