America

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  7 November 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mass at the border for the migrants who died while trying to cross it, while the caravan proceeds Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - While the caravan of Central American migrants crossing Mexico to reach the US border continues, a Mass was celebrated at the border for those who died trying to cross it. The celebration, ...
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  6 November 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Assembly of Bishops: "courage and unity" to face today's complex and conflictual situations Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The 116th Plenary Assembly of the Argentinian Episcopate (CEA) is taking place, from November 5th to 9th in Pilar. As usual, there will be space in the work program to inform and discuss th ...
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  6 November 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Salesian Missionaries in the Amazon for over a century: experiences and perspectives Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Starting from the Preparatory Document of the Synod for the Amazon, presented by the indigenous Salesian Justino Sarmento Rezendo, a hundred Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) and Daughters of Mary Hel ...
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  5 November 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pastoral care of human rights and indigenous peoples in Latin America: two meetings promoted by CELAM Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Today two important meetings begin in Bogota, promoted by the departments of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council), which will focus their attention on the pastoral care of human rights and t ...
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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - State resources must be used to alleviate the suffering of the poorest people Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to take urgent measures so that state funds are mainly allocated to implement social policies that respond to the basic and real needs of the population, such as health, education and h ...
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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop Lozano: "The month of October ends, but not the mission" San Juan de Cuyo (Agenzia Fides) - "October is abount to end, a month dedicated above all to renew ourselves in the conscience and missionary commitment ... October ends, mission no, because it is permanent, it is in the ...
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  30 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration, both in Central America and in Mexico, is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption", reads the editorial of th ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops on the consultation for the new Constitution: conscious and responsible participation of all Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In a long and articulated pastoral Letter just published, the Episcopal Conference of Cuba has expressed itself on the project of the new Constitution of the country which, at the end of the revi ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth and migrants: the response of the Church of Belem on the path towards the 2019 Synod Belem (Agenzia Fides) - A big center for youth Pastoral care, where promoting human and integral formation of young people, is the response of the diocese of Belem, one of the great metropolises of the Amazon, to the gre ...
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  26 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - US Commission for religious freedom: "The Church in Nicaragua must be protected, not aggressively attacked" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Samuel D. Brownback, said that "the situation of the Catholic clergy in Nicaragua is not acceptable" and believes tha ...
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  25 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fr. Narváez: "Patience and forgiveness are needed for lasting peace" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is erroneously believed that forgiveness is only a religious or spiritual resource, but forgiveness is also a political virtue". With this vision, the Foundation for Reconciliation (FR), fou ...
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  24 October 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops and the "human tragedy" of the caravan: "we were deaf to the cries of their rights" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Honduras are concerned about the serious migration crisis of thousands of Hondurans who are leaving the country. The caravan now has arrived in Mexico, and the US government h ...
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  24 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On April 27, 2019 the beatification of Mgr. Angelelli, two priests and a layman in La Rioja La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification ceremony of Monsignor Enrique Angelelli, of priests Carlos Murias and Gabriel Longueville and of the layman Wenceslao Pedernera, killed during the dictatorship, in the summer ...
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  23 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Listening to the cries of the brother for us Christians means commitment and action" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "The cries of the poor", the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) has just published a letter to remind the Mexican community that the Catholic Church, at the invitation of Po ...
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  23 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Victims of conflict, migrants, social leaders in danger: Colombian Bishops call for collaboration in Europe Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The European Parliament, the French Parliament, the British Government, the Commissions of the Episcopates of the European Union, France, England and Wales, Internationalis and German Caritas, as ...