America
23 June 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A Mass for solidarity and to ask to stop the deportation of Haitians from Santo Domingo
New York (Agenzia Fides) - The battle to avoid the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, who according to recent local legislation cannot obtain Dominican citizenship, has moved ...
23 June 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appeal of the UNHCR to the Dominican government: the consequences of expulsion could be devastating
New York (Agenzia Fides) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has appealed to the government of the Dominican Republic not to deport tens of thousands of people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of t ...
23 June 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report of CIMI: suicide and infant mortality are decimating the indigenous population
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There was a serious increase of violence and violations committed against indigenous peoples in Brazil in 2014, in particular we are talking about cases of murder, suicide, people who died due ...
22 June 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Hunger strike in 12 states for political prisoners, the Church has been asked to intervene
Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Merida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, yesterday met young people on hunger strike in Mérida, during his visit to the church of El Llano (see Fides 03/06/2015; ...
22 June 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years after the attack against the elderly, the case has not yet been solved
Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Two years ago members of the Sandinista Youth attacked a group of young people who were accompanying the elderly who were protesting outside the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security to ask ...
19 June 2015
AMERICA/CUBA - Catholic radio through Internet
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The upcoming visit of Pope Francis to the island of Cuba will be broadcast on digital radio "cristoenlinea.com". The project was born in the diocese of Saltillo, Mexico, and has developed at a na ...
19 June 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "They have our support": Mgr. Conde receives young people on hunger strike and writes to the Pope
Maracay (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo, Bishop of the diocese of Maracay, received university students who have been on hunger strike since early June on June 17 in the Archbishopric (see Fid ...
18 June 2015
AMERICA/PARAGUAY – Urgent need to eradicate child labor, which is dangerous and harmful to physical and mental development
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - According to official figures, approximately 436,000 children and adolescents between 5 and 17 years of age in Paraguay are exploited for different types of jobs out of a total population of ...
18 June 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The first Congress on intercultural and interreligious dialogue
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The organizational meeting of the "First International Congress on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue" to be held from November 16 to 18 on the theme "A path towards peace" was hoste ...
17 June 2015
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops: dialogue is the only path to find solutions, violence is always destructive
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "The Bishops of Ecuador in the face of the situation in the country", the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference issued a statement, sent to Fides, which states: "the Church is present in t ...
17 June 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Silent march in Tumaco: after 60 years of violence it is now time to form "a truly civilized society"
Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - "Colombia has lived nearly 60 years of violence, I believe that all generations were born at least in part with the idea of war, attack, fighting and retaliation, I think it is time to think abou ...
16 June 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - On the border between Peru and Bolivia, crossroads of migrants
Rio Branco (Agenzia Fides) - Rio Branco, in the State of Acre, in Brazil, on the border with Peru and Bolivia, is a particularly critical area for migrants: according to data of the Secretariat of Justice and Human Right ...
16 June 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "No to prejudice, yes to rights and participation": week of Migrants
San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - "Helping our communities to reflect and deepen the reality of migration, enlightened by the experience of this year’s Fraternity Campaign, whose theme 'Church and Society' has allowed us to ...
15 June 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still controversy over the transoceanic canal; Mgr. Baez "more transparency is needed"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Discussions have started again regarding the draft of the Grand Interoceanic Canal of Nicaragua, intended to connect the Atlantic and Pacific ocean (see Fides 24/11/2014), and this time the them ...
15 June 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Mazatlan’s appeal after the violence perpetrated during the weekend
Sinaloa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Mazatlan (Sinaloa, Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Mario Espinosa Contreras in the face of the climate of violence in recent days, which resulted in the murder of a woman and the disappeara ...
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