America

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  30 November 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Education and the formation of young people, a bet for a better country Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "We want happy young people who bring happiness, therefore our personal projects, our nation-wide project, must be a bet for young people", said yesterday His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar ...
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  29 November 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - To evangelize under the guidance of Mgr. Oscar Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – To evaluate the pastoral work of each nation and propose new goals for next year: this is the purpose of the meeting of the Central American Bishops' Secretariat (SEDAC), formed by the Bi ...
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  28 November 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Discriminatory legislation and violence against women continue to exist in the Country Panama (Agenzia Fides) - In Latin America and the Caribbean, women by law cannot inherit land, have access to certain jobs, such as those in mines, or cannot give nationality to their children. Despite the recent ratifi ...
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  27 November 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes calls for a Christian burial for the boys killed in the clashes on November 12 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, asked the General Command of the Nicaraguan Army to deliver the bodies of Lea Valle’s two sons, 16 and 12 years old, who were killed on 12 Nove ...
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  24 November 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Prayer for peace in Baja California Sur: 900 dead in three years Baja California Sur (Agenzia Fides) – To pray for peace and families, victims of violence: yesterday November 23, at least one hundred priests from the five municipalities and more than 300 people gathered in San Marti ...
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  23 November 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Among those that society rejects, God becomes more visible": the experience of a missionary in the Amazon Cucuí (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission strengthens our Christian lives, allows us to be present among the people, to discover in them the sign of God". This is what Fr. Luis Miguel Modino, Fidei donum Spanish missionary in Cu ...
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  23 November 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Fonseca: Massacre of peasants: the army and institutions must clarify Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The army must immediately clarify this situation, it must save its honor. If it was not one of them, then someone must must tell us who he was, but this situation needs to be clarified as soon ...
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  22 November 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishop of Mar del Plata among the detainees: "accept our mistakes and plan the future" Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - "The most important thing for a pastor is to have a flock to accompany and take care of, and you are the privileged group of the Pastor, it is a joy to share", said Mgr. Gabriel Antonio Me ...
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  21 November 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - New life to orphans and abandoned children: the reception home which the Pope will visit Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) – In order to give a future to young people and indigenous peoples in this region, more support is needed in the social sphere, a strong political will, ethical conviction on the value ...
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  20 November 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - War among the poor continues San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, after the celebration of Sunday Mass during which the Universal Church celebrated the Day of the Poor, Archbishop Emeritus of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, Mgr. Felipe Ari ...
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  18 November 2017
  AMERICA - "To look at the poor in the eyes", loving with facts and not words Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On November 19, the Universal Church celebrates the First World Day of the Poor, on the theme "We do not love in words but with facts", an initiative born a year ago at the close of the Jubilee of ...
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  17 November 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop's denunciation: exodus of the Tarahumaras indigenous due to violence Tarahuamara (Agenzia Fides) - The Tarahumaras and Tepehuanes Indigenous are leaving their lands because they no longer find the necessary conditions for living there: reports the parish priest of San José of Tarahumara, ...
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  17 November 2017
  AMERICA/HAITI - Among poverty, illness, malnutrition, the care of missionaries towards the disabled Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – In Haiti people live in huts, half of the population does not have access to drinking water, they do not have enough food and the highest rate of child mortality is recorded. One child ...
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  16 November 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops: profound electoral reform is needed, support for Mgr. Baez Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan Bishops 'Conference (CEN) gathered at the annual plenary Assembly from 13 to 15 November to learn and share the work of the various bishops' Commissions in the face of the social ...
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  16 November 2017
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - Trauma, psychological and emotional damage to hurricane victims who are afraid of the recovery San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Even after 47 days since the passage of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which in September devastated the Country, emergency has not ended yet (see Fides 2/10/2017). The most serious problem continu ...