America
21 September 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Honduras is sick of hate", warns Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday Honduran Cardinal Mgr. Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, during Sunday Mass said that the country is full of hate and needs to change, because "the futur ...
21 September 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Free surgeries for children and adults with cleft lip and palate
Nuevo Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - 44 people, including children and adults have benefited from free surgeries for cleft lip by the System of Integral Development of the Family (DIF) - Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. For the secon ...
18 September 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops of Bluefields: "We cannot share the violence among poor peasants and indigenous"
Puerto Cabezas (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. David Zywiec, Auxiliary Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bluefields (Nicaragua), that covers the Caribbean region of Nicaragua, reported that the Catholic Church, throug ...
18 September 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The National Assembly of Pastoral Care: Renew enthusiasm in evangelization
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) has prepared a multimedia commercial on the Internet that informs and invites the community to attend the National Assembly of Pastoral Care to be hel ...
17 September 2015
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Intervention of Mgr. Scarpellini on the candidacy of Morales: "Alternation is an expression of democracy"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "As Catholic Church, we affirm that alternation is always an expression of democracy", said the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, as well as secretary of the Episcopal Confer ...
17 September 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Crisis with Colombia: "Governments have not done their best to solve the crisis", said Mgr. Padron
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Colombia and Venezuela are brothers and sisters, and peace and reconciliation are possible. People do not deserve violence, what is needed is forgiveness", said the Apostolic Nunc ...
16 September 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "How many people have to die before they have justice?", since 1983 at least 50 indigenous leaders have been killed
Campo Grande (Agenzia Fides) - "How many people have to die before reaching the conclusion that we need to do something concrete for peace, respect for human rights and justice for all?". The question is posed by His Exc ...
15 September 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - One death due to malnutrition every 10 hours, 2 out of 10 children do not have adequate food
Resistencia (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest report released by the Ministry of Health of Argentina, one person dies every 10 hours in the country for problems due to malnutrition. Following the recent death fro ...
15 September 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Preparation for World Mission Sunday 2015 begins
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil called a press conference on September 17, to present World Mission Campaign 2015. The campaign aims to awaken the Christian commitment to the m ...
15 September 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - "In Mexico there is no real administration of justice" says the Archdiocese of Mexico
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "International Shame" is the title of the editorial of "Desde la Fe" magazine, the main body of information of the Archdiocese of the Mexican capital, which denounces the situation of the ad ...
15 September 2015
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Nearly half of all children live in the poorest households
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - 49.2% of Uruguayan children live in a situation of complete poverty. This probelm affects almost half the country's children between 0 and 11 years of age. This was reported by the Continue A ...
14 September 2015
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO Economic insecurity in particular affects the child population
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - In Puerto Rico children and youth are being brought up in an environment where economic insecurity has reached alarming levels. Parents of 6 children out of 10 do not have a permanent job and 5 ...
14 September 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Families fleeing and still clashes in Waspam, request of a Truth Commission
Puerto Cabezas (Agenzia Fides) - Violence continues in the area of Waspam (Nicaragua), near the border with Honduras: On Friday evening, September 11, there was a new armed confrontation between indigenous and settlers t ...
14 September 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Early Marriages: still half a million young newlyweds between 15 to 17 years of age
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - About 90,000 children between 10 and 14 years of age were duly married in Brazil in 2010, while another half a million got married between 15 and 17. This is what emerged from a study just rele ...
14 September 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops: malnutrition and poverty in the country, a "terrible reality"
Oberá (Agenzia Fides) – Oscar Sanchez, a 14-year ethnic Qom weighed 11 pounds and died from the consequences of malnutrition in the hospital of Chaco. The "Clarin" newspaper published in evidence the words of three Bi ...
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