America
29 February 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Servants of Maria Riparatrici: "For a hundred years in the Amazon at the service of God and humanity"
Sena Madureira (Agenzia Fides) - "The Servant Sisters of Maria Riparatrici who operate in the Amazon region of Alto-Acre, Brazil, continue to offer pastoral service, the reception of girls who want to consecrate themselv ...
28 February 2020
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law on reconciliation approved, for the opposition it is only "a disguised amnesty"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday February 26, El Salvador's Congress approved a law to investigate and punish crimes committed during the country's civil war, rejected by human rights defenders and by the pr ...
28 February 2020
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The Bishops: without a deep love for the homeland it is impossible to carry out the project of the founding fathers
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that, without a deep love for the homeland, it is impossible to carry out a nation project that reflects the dreams of our founding fathers. Without having a fixed gaze o ...
27 February 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Hate, blood and death: a heartfelt SOS to the international community
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again the people of Nicaragua have been smeared with hatred, blood and death. Until when? Nicaragua is no longer a rule of law. The Nicaraguan people are launching a strong and vibrant SOS ...
27 February 2020
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Girl killed: being indigenous should not be a reason for discrimination and cruelty
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The National Coordination of Indigenous Pastoral Care (CONAPI) of the Paraguayan Bishops’ Conference "is saddened and repudiates what happened to the indigenous girl found dead, with hands an ...
26 February 2020
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishops hope for a peaceful solution to social tension due to the postponment of elections
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The hope that the political crisis that the Dominican Republic is going through will have a peaceful solution was expressed on Sunday, February 23, by the Archbishop of Santiago, Mgr. Freddy de ...
25 February 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 February 2020 the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni (Bolivia), presented by His Exc. Mgr Julio María Elías Monto ...
25 February 2020
AMERICA - The Bishops of Mexico and Paraguay: respect women, recognize their rights, promote their dignity
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened by the violence against women, which has expressed itself in a new and aggressive way, so cruel as to generate confusion, pain, bitterness, sadness, tears, indignatio ...
24 February 2020
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church recalls the urgency of a law for national reconciliation
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of El Salvador notes and confirms the need for a specific national reconciliation law that guarantees justice to the victims of the armed conflict that bloodied the nati ...
20 February 2020
AMERICA/HAITI - A missionary: "As a Church, as missionaries, we invite the leaders of the country to stop criminal activities, in particular kidnappings"
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Human Rights Analysis and Research Center in Haiti (CARDH) defined the lack of respect for the rights to life, safety and free mobility in the country as "alarming", due to the situat ...
20 February 2020
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Bishops call for calm and common sense after the suspension of the municipal elections
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Central Electoral Council (JCE) canceled the municipal elections which took place on 16 February due to a serious computer system flop in part of the polling stations. Citizens have be ...
19 February 2020
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A missionary connotation to National Youth Day
Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the various initiatives planned for National Youth Day (JNJ), which is celebrated in Venezuela on the Sunday closest to February 12, youth missionary groups from the parishes of the ...
19 February 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Dengue spreads: the Church urges the population to collaborate to limit its spread
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - In Bolivia the population is on high alert for the spread of the dengue virus which is recording very high peaks of infection. "The Lord asks us to be co-responsible in implementing the preve ...
19 February 2020
AMERICA - The Bishops of the continent gathered to analyze particular situations and identify common lines of action
Tampa (Agenzia Fides) - Presiding over the morning prayer and then the Eucharist, the President of the Episcopal Council for Latin America (CELAM), Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, Archbishop of Trujillo (Peru), kicked off the meet ...
18 February 2020
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Stop stealing in the north": Salta area plundered of wealth and the inhabitants abandoned in misery
Salta (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop stealing in the north" was the heartfelt request expressed by the rector of the Virgen de la Peña shrine, Father Fray Rubén Sica, OFM, in his homily last Sunday, February 16, referring to ...
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