America

• 4 November 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of bishop vicar apostolic coadjutor of San Ramón Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Pedro Orlando Castro Castro, O.F.M., until now provincial vicar of the Franciscan Province of the Twelve Apostles and parish vicar of Santa Ma ...
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  31 October 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The State has a duty to protect, not to kill.” The Pontifical Mission Societies of Brazil respond to the tragic events in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil have expressed, in a statement sent to Fides, their profound solidarity and sorrow for the recent tragic episodes of violence in Rio de ...
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  28 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Approaching hurricane Melissa": the village of Pourcine Pic-Makaya is on alert Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – "It's approaching, it's raining heavily, but wind and water are forecast especially for this afternoon/evening and tomorrow. Let's hope it won't be too severe!" said Father Massimo ...
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  21 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - When everything plunges into hatred and violence, the people of Pic-Makaya move forward with faith and resilience
  Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis that continues to shake the Haitian people threatens to worsen due to gang violence that displaces entire families, destroys agricu ...
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  21 October 2025
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Father Sánchez at the National Missionary Jubilee: "Mission, the vocation of every baptized person" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – United to renew the missionary vocation and rediscover the beauty of being missionaries. This was the atmosphere on Saturday, October 18, at the National Missionary Jubilee, organized by th ...
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  16 October 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Amazon Water Summit of the Catholic Church: “We Are Water, We Are Life, We Are Hope” Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – Over 400 delegates gathered for three days in Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon, for the Amazon Water Summit to discuss the protection of water as a fundamental human right and ...
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  10 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Over 200 children begin the school year in Pourcine-PicMakaya. "We are responsible for their education" Pourcine-PicMacaya (Agenzia Fides) – "After three days of integration, each student takes their place in class, and things really get going. The students arrive in large numbers, the teachers are at their desks, and of ...
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  8 October 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The country in a state of emergency. The bishops: "Violence is never the right path to build a better Ecuador" Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Violence is never the right way, declare the Ecuadorian bishops in response to the protests called by CONAIE, the main organization of the indigenous movement in Ecuador, against the increase in ...
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  7 October 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missing priest found dead: murder investigation underway Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The body of Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, the priest reported missing on Saturday, October 4, in Cocula, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, has been found. The body of the priest, wh ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The new school year begins at the parish school in Pourcine-Pic-Macaya Pourcine Pic-Macaya (Agenzia Fides) – "Without quality education, there is no future for Haiti and for our small but resilient mountain community," said missionary Father Massimo Miraglio of the Order of the Ministers ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the Barrio San Bernardo in Bogotà there is a new beginning among the "broken people" by Monica Poletto Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – In the south of Bogotá, in a former middle-class neighborhood, lies the "Barrio San Bernardo," where the parish of "Nuestra Señora de los Dolores" is located. The young ...
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  30 September 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Ecumenical and interreligious celebration: "Forgive us our trespasses, grant us your peace" Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) – Prayers for peoples suffering from violence, exclusion, and war, along with a shared commitment to be peacemakers in the city and around the world: this marked the annual meeting of reli ...
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  29 September 2025
  AMERICA/USA - A former Marine attacks Mormon temple in Michigan, killing four people Washington (Agenzia Fides) – At least four people were killed and eight others were injured in the attack carried out yesterday, Sunday, September 28, by a gunman at a Mormon temple in Michigan. The attacker rammed a ...
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  27 September 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Holy House of Spiritual Exercises "Mama Antula": opening of Missionary October and sending of the Saint's relics Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Today, September 27, the opening Mass of Missionary October will be celebrated, during which the sending of the relics of Saint Mama Antula, patroness of the missions in Argentina and the ...
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  26 September 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Red Clamor campaign: Recognizing the dignity of those forced to leave their homelands Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – "Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating" are the four verbs at the heart of the work of "Red Clamor," the Latin American and Caribbean Ecclesial Network for Migration, Displacement, R ...