America
21 July 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The water crisis threatens millions of people
Rio De Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America has 30% of global water resources, however, because of mismanagement in the distribution or climate change, that already pose a serious threat to agriculture in the entire C ...
20 July 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - A video documents the first missionary experience of young people in the Amazon
Belém (Agenzia Fides) - A video documenting the first Youth Mission in the Amazon, organized by the Youth Commission of the Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) last December, was broadcast for the first time, to the ...
20 July 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Young Chiapas form an orchestra with pre-Hispanic instruments
Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - Boys and girls of Palenque, Chiapas, of the infant Niños Cantan orchestra, have formed an orchestra to reproduce sounds with pre-Hispanic Mayan musical instruments. The project started ...
20 July 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Games, songs, dances: a feast to celebrate children
El Tigre (Agenzia Fides) - Among cultural events, games, music, songs, dances, thousands of children and adolescents, not only in the district of El Tigre but also of the municipality of San José de Guanipa, found thems ...
20 July 2015
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Why are we so inhuman towards each other?" Asks Mgr. Gimenez denouncing violence
Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Caacupé, His Exc. Mgr. Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, complained about the wave of violence that hit the north of the country, where in less than a week five policemen were ki ...
17 July 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Sexual abuse on children have repercussions in adulthood
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of sexual abuse and violence against children continues to be one of the main problems of the Country. In 2014, NGO Doctors Without Borders recorded a total of 1,715 cases of ...
16 July 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Priest murdered in the sacristy as he was about to celebrate mass
Montería (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish priest Luis Alfonso León Pereira, for 48 years at the service of the Colombian Church, was brutally murdered in the sacristy as he was about to celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy. The ...
16 July 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nearly two million Central American children are undernourished
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - In Central America there are more than 2 million children under five years of age who suffer from anemia and more than 1 million and 900,000 who suffer from malnutrition. This is what was highli ...
15 July 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - A new ward for children suffering from dengue and chikungunya
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - A new ward for the assistance of children infected with dengue and chikungunya was recently inaugurated at the Children's Hospital of Tegucigalpa. The aim of this new structure, built by the ...
15 July 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nearly 30 percent of Argentines live in a situation of poverty
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - 28.7 percent of Argentines live in poverty and 2 million people are below the level of poverty: these are the findings of the last report of the Argentine Social Debt Observatory, ODSA, of ...
15 July 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign of the diocese of San Pedro Sula: "An honest man is not corrupt"
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "In this context of outrage over corruption there is the request to denounce it, so that everything is out in the open: the causes, those responsible and the measures that should be taken ...
14 July 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops on the escape of El Chapo, "we are not naive, we must eradicate corruption"
Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - "The second escape of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leader of the 'Cartel de Sinaloa' from the maximum security prison further undermines the little credibility of the population in the federal au ...
14 July 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two children and a woman killed by mistake by the police; Mgr. Baez calls for justice
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, calls for justice for two children and a woman, killed by the police in an operation against drug traffickers, and ...
13 July 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Once the peace agreement is signed, the real challenge of the government will be how to handle the situation
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - All have hope and confidence that the peace talks will reach a final agreement, but it is necessary to go beyond the signing in Havana, and that the government is present in the most remote regio ...
13 July 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Corruption spreads when transparency remains only good intentions": the Catholic voice before the scandals
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The LXII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico approved the General Law of transparency during the last period of ordinary sessions, before the end of the legislature, promising strict auste ...
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