America
10 January 2019
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops seek to create spaces of encounter, dialogue and peace
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is constantly faced with various trials and difficulties, there are few job and education opportunities, high insecurity, including the uncertainty and expectations that come wi ...
8 January 2019
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nicaragua crisis returns to OAS on January 11
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), after Mass last Sunday, 6 January, said that it will be necessary to analyze and imp ...
8 January 2019
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Priest stabbed by thieves who entered the parish
Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Adam Bravo Mendoza, 78-year-old diocesan priest, of La Santa Cruz parish in the city of Trinidad, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in Bolivia, was stabbed by some criminals who tried to ...
7 January 2019
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - After 525 years, faith must always be "announced with courage and lived with love"
Puerto Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The many sufferings of the Haitian people who continue to suffer are reason of concern. Haitians have been welcomed by the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic "because they are brothe ...
5 January 2019
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in America: the benefits of the proclamation of the Gospel are still lived today
Puerto Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church concludes today, Saturday, January 5, 2019, the celebrations of the 525th anniversary of the first Mass in the American continent, officiated in Isabela, Puerto Plata, o ...
4 January 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Inculturation of the liturgy and the indigenous reality of the Amazon
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis insists on the fact that the local Church must have an Amazonian and indigenous face. To achieve this goal a process of inculturation is needed, one of the possibl ...
3 January 2019
AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishop of Gonaives calls Haitians to work to save the nation from the evils that afflict it
Gonaives (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2019 Haiti celebrated the 215th anniversary of independence. On this occasion, the traditional "Te Deum" was celebrated in the Cathedral of Gonaïves, the capital of the Artibonite ...
2 January 2019
AMERICA/PORTO RICO - The Bishops: 2019 is an extraordinary missionary Year
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The desire for a new missionary impulse for the Church in Puerto Rico has prompted its bishops to hold an Extraordinary Missionary Year, which will begin on January 13th (feast of the Baptism o ...
28 December 2018
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In a generalized climate of fear, a priest threatened with death by an armed group
Santa Rosa de Osos (Agenzia Fides) - The parish priest of the rural village of Cuturú (diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos) was threatened with death for refusing to pay bribes to one of the active armed groups in the area, t ...
22 December 2018
AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops of Haiti: "A Christmas marked by the great ills affecting our country"
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The collapse of state institutions, the escalation of violence, armed gangs in the pay of powerful sponsors, the growing economic debacle leading to intolerable impoverishment, but also w ...
21 December 2018
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops to President Macri: the social situation is worrying
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The concern of the Argentine Church for the social situation of the country and for the increase of "new divisions in society" was expressed by the Executive Commission of the Argentinian E ...
20 December 2018
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Devastating fire in Manaus: dioceses and parishes to the rescue of those who have lost everything
Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Around 8 pm on Monday 17 December, a serious fire broke out in the Educandos district, in the southern part of the city of Manaus, which destroyed around 600 houses in the district, according to ...
19 December 2018
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Baniwa women have earned the respect of the community thanks to the Church
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - In the Baniwa society, the traditional role of women was to take care of their children, their husbands, their jobs, "today things have changed, now we have the freedom to spea ...
18 December 2018
AMERICA/ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Saint John's Basseterre
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Robert A. Llanos, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Port of Spain and Apostolic Administrator of Saint John's Basseterre as Bishop of Saint John' ...
18 December 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - Security in Guerrero cannot be entrusted to armed civilians, it is urgent to create a "national police"
Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The security in the state of Guerrero cannot be left "in the hands of armed civilians", it is necessary to create a national police that is militarized, to ensure the safety of citizens: the Ar ...
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