America

• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty and precariousness force people to seek food in the garbage Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - The economic crisis that is currently affecting Venezuela decreases the number of Venezuelans who can buy basic food items on a daily basis. According to information gathered by Fides, this ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa encourages inmates: "Imprisonment is not the same as exclusion" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "Imprisonment is not the same as exclusion, there are many elements that are against inmates: overcrowding, the slow pace of justice, the lack of an employment strategy, violence ... Brother ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New health center for basic assistance and nutrition for women and children Miami (Agenzia Fides) - After years of uncertainty and economic problems, finally Liberty City, a suburb of Miami, Florida, has launched its health center. The center will offer health care assistance to 75,000 people, e ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Cucuta marches in defense of the rights of Colombians Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - Colombians who live on the border with Venezuela marched in defense of the dignity of their compatriots expelled and to reaffirm their brotherhood with this country, two weeks after the closure o ...
• 4 September 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - May our nation be an open space for respectable migration, in justice and peace Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Just like every person has the right to defend their identity, to set limits to its spaces, one also has the vital need to open its borders in order to meet each other’s needs, to give on ...
• 3 September 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The memory of the missionary Fr. Ezechiele Ramin is still alive even 30 years after his assassination Cacoal (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 July 1985 Father Ezechiele Ramin, a Comboni missionary (MCCJ) originally from Padova (Italy), was murdered in Cacoal, in the northwestern state of Rondonia, Brazil. Father Ezechiele, a 32-y ...
• 3 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Meeting of the Bishops of Colombia and Venezuela on the border area crisis Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Permanent Council of Colombian Bishops, presided by Archbishop of Tunja, Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, with the President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, His Exc. M ...
• 3 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dengue haemorrhagic fever affects children in Huila Huila (Agenzia Fides) - The lack of early diagnosis and family care are among the main causes of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which is causing a high number of deaths among children of the Colombian department of Huila. We ...
• 2 September 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - A month dedicated to combatting human trafficking Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign Corazón Azul Peru 2015 against human trafficking has just been launched in Peru. Every year Peru celebrates the "Month of Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings" in September. In ...
• 2 September 2015
  AMERICA/ANTILLES - Tropical Storm Erika: churches destroyed, displaced families, many children swept away by the waters Saint John's (Agenzia Fides) - Tropical Storm Erika has hit the Caribbean in recent days, in particular the state of Dominica, causing death and devastation. People are missing, houses, bridges and roads have been destro ...
• 2 September 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Biblical campaign on the 50th anniversary of the "Dei Verbum" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - In many Latin American countries the month of September is dedicated to the dissemination and promotion of Bible reading. In Argentina, the motto of the 2015 National Campaign of the Bible, ...
• 1 September 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We cannot accept violence, we have to react": the Archbishop of Cordoba at the funeral of the murdered priest Alta Gracia (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot accept the culture of death, it seems that the lives of people has no value. We must react, we cannot accept violence". This is what His Exc. Mgr. Carlos José Nanez, Archbishop o ...
• 1 September 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops on the situation of conflict with Colombia: "Human rights are the same for all" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask authorities to restore normality as soon as possible, because there are many difficulties and anxieties which are being experienced by those living on both sides of the border, and not o ...
• 31 August 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of the PMS of Cone sur: from Ad Gentes to Evangelii Gaudium Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - With a small mission in Berazategui, in the Diocese of Argentina's Quilmes, the meeting of the National Directors and the Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Southe ...
• 31 August 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - New reception facility for the poorest families who live on the outskirts of the capital Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The new reception center recently opened by the Pope John XXIII Community (APG23), destined to welcome the poorest families, especially single mothers with children, is situated in the Cr ...