America
1 June 2015
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "The numbers of murders are manipulated in order to create chaos", denounces Mgr. Rosa Chavez
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - In El Salvador, a country plagued by gang violence, the numbers of murders are manipulated in order to create a climate of ungovernability. This is what auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Hi ...
30 May 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Six young people on hunger strike in a church in Caracas
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Six Venezuelan students have been on a hunger strike for two days in a Church in Caracas: as reported in a note sent to Fides, their purpose is to secure the release of peers who are still in pr ...
30 May 2015
AMERICA/URUGUAY - The Latin American devotion to Romero in Uruguay
Melo (Agenzia Fides) - A small chapel in Uruguay is named after Blessed Oscar Romero, in recognition of the "martyred Bishop" of El Salvador, recently beatified. Mgr. Romero (1917-1980), known for his preaching in defens ...
29 May 2015
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Pope urges us not to be indifferent towards immigrants
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Immigrants need pastoral and charitable care, in particular those of neighboring Haiti, in search of better living conditions in the Dominican Republic. Such attention leaves no room for t ...
28 May 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - The churches of Piedras Negras become centers of aid to people affected by the tornado
Cohauila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Piedras Negras, which belongs to the city of Acuña, Coahuila (Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Alonso Gerardo Garza Trevino, after the disaster caused by the tornado that de ...
28 May 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Child nutrition, drugs and poverty: meeting of Bishops and authorities of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Wednesday, May 27, the governor of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli had a meeting with the Bishops of the various dioceses of the province of Buenos Aires. The meeting, which is becom ...
27 May 2015
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Radio and TV to announce the Gospel in the Vicariate of Nuflo de Chavez
Nuflo de Chavez (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of San Julian of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nuflo de Chavez is working on a radio-television center of the parish. The community of 160 thousand people is looking forward to t ...
27 May 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops’ refelection: "Thinking Brazil", social inequalities in Brazil
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The second volume of "Thinking Brazil" has been published. The text, approved on the occasion of the general Assembly of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) held in April in Apa ...
27 May 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Tornado among the strongest recorded in the country affects Ciudad Acuña: 14 deaths and massive damage
Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - The tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña on May 25 has killed 13 people, 150 have been injured, 750 houses damaged and 4,000 without electricity. The phenomenon occurred around 6 am in the western pa ...
26 May 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church's message for the National holiday: no to hatred, play politics with moral integrity
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - In the Cathedral of Buenos Aires and in the Basilica of Lujan, the Te Deum was celebrated yesterday, according to tradition, on the occasion of the National Holiday celebrations for the ann ...
26 May 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Stop deaths! An agreement has to be reached as soon as possible", asks Cardinal Salazar Gómez
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, speaking to the local press reiterated that war must end and an agreement between the government and the FARC has to be reached as soon a ...
25 May 2015
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Archbishop Romero beatified: "symbol of peace, harmony and brotherhood"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - If the persecutors of Mgr. Romero "disappeared into the shadows of oblivion and death, the memory of Romero instead continues to be alive and to give comfort to all the underprivileged and ...
22 May 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 630,000 signatures for political Reform and transparent elections
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On the national Day of mobilization against the constitutionalization of corruption, over two thousand people participated in the march in favor of democratic political reform. The demonstratio ...
22 May 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the tragedy a light of life: the funeral of 33 of the 84 deaths due to the landslide in Salgar
Salgar (Agenzia Fides) - The town of Salgar, devastated between 18 and 19 May by a huge landslide caused by a flood, yesterday celebrated the funerals of 33 victims. On Monday, May 18 the flood razed the village of Las M ...
21 May 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "With courage and more faith": Danilo Aceituno lived at the service of God and of the Church
Suyapa (Agenzia Fides) - Two huge banners with his image and his famous phrase "with courage and more faith" were placed on both sides of the altar of the Shrine of Suyapa, during the funeral of Danilo Aceituno, the most ...
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