America

• 23 July 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mission Campaign 2015: material ready Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - “Mission is to serve” is the Theme chosen in Brazil for this year’s Mission Campaign 2015 (see Fides 28/04/2015), which will culminate with the missionary month of October and World Missi ...
• 22 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation: the pillars of peace promoted by the Church Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - "We recognize in young people a fundamental reality: they are the way of hope to promote a new concept of the culture of love and peace". This was stated by the Archbishop of Acapulco, His Exc. ...
• 22 July 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Bring Christ to families": hundreds of young people on a mission to Goya Goya (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of young people from the north-east of Argentina will give life, from July 24 to 26, to a "mega mission" in the city of Goya, in the province of Corrientes, and the motto will be "Guided b ...
• 21 July 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Mission, a way of life": towards the fourth National Meeting of Missionary Groups Santiago del Estero (Agenzia Fides) - Organized by the National Commission for Missions and the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Argentina, the fourth National Meeting of Missionary Groups will take place in Santiag ...
• 21 July 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The body of a Franciscan who died a few days has been found Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - The body of the Franciscan priest Alex Pinto was found yesterday afternoon, July 20, along the road linking Ciudad Bolivar to Puerto Ordaz by some confreres and police who were patrolling ...
• 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 ...