America

• 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 ...
• 12 September 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Amnesty for 3522 prisoners: the Bishops express their satisfaction with "this act of mercy" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "The news of the liberation of prisoners is a source of joy and spiritual relief for the detainees themselves and their relatives as well as for the collaborators of the Prison Pastoral Care", sa ...
• 11 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week of Peace: Colombians want a date for talks with the ELN Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The 28th edition of the Week of Peace is being held in different cities of Colombia with exhibitions, conferences and artistic events, which this year has chosen the motto "I greet others", as gr ...
• 10 September 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Cura Gaucho" on the path towards canonization, the people of Villa Cura Brochero celebrate Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The Medical Council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints confirmed the miracle attributed to the intercession of the priest of Traslasierra, José Gabriel Brochero, known as "Cura Gaucho ...
• 10 September 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Clashes over land concern the Bishops of Bluefields: "there will be no solution if there is violence" Bluefields (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of violence that has intensified recently in the Caribbean region of Nicaragua, the territory of the Vicariate of Bluefields, worries its Pastors. Although the Bishop of Bluefie ...
• 10 September 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped; more and more religious victims of road ambushes Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Nigerian Spiritan father (Congregation of the Holy Spirit), Fr. Gabriel Oyaka, was kidnapped on September 7 in Kogi State. The priest was traveling in his car along the Okene-Auchi road, on his ...
• 9 September 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Feast of Our Lady of Charity, Patroness of Cuba, in the view of the Pope’s visit Cienfuegos (Agenzia Fides) - "Every year the feast of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre fills us with joy and hope, because she reminds us of her loving presence in Cuba. 2016 will mark the centenary of the Declaration of Ou ...
• 9 September 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Children resist famine thanks to school snacks Intibucá (Agenzia Fides) - The severe drought caused by El Niño has caused the loss of entire crops, the only source of food for many Honduran families. In some places of the Country, the school snack is the only meal ...
• 9 September 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Problems are not solved with demonstrations, but with good will" said Mgr. Escobar San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a lack of respect to see leaders who fight in the streets" condemned the Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Escobar Alas, referring to the increasingly heated political d ...
• 8 September 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishop of Chimbote: "the solution to insecurity is not lynching" Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Chimbote, in northern Peru, His Exc. Mgr. Angel Francisco Simon Piorno, spoke out against the campaign which appeared in social networks in Peru entitled "Get the t ...
• 8 September 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Meeting of the Bishops of Mexico and the United States on the expulsion of immigrants Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - In order to address the "painful situation" that migrants live in the attempt to cross the border with the United States, the Bishops of Mexico and the United States met last weekend in the c ...