America

• 26 June 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Still demonstrations against President Correa Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – Tension in Ecuador continues due to the many demonstrations that have taken place in Guayaquil and Quito against President Rafael Correa. For a week the population and the opposition protest ...
• 25 June 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Periodic monitoring of the situation of migrants, joint efforts of government and Church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretaries of the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs, respectively Miguel Angel Osorio Chong and Jose Antonio Meade, along with other officials and representatives of state inst ...
• 25 June 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 20,000 people every week prepare themselves for the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Piaui (Agenzia Fides) - More than twenty thousand people, including children, youth, adults and the elderly, meet every Tuesday in open spaces and at the Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Villa Obrera, in the north of t ...
• 24 June 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Latin American Religious give their full support and unreserved commitment for Peace in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the CLAR Congress, Confederation of religious men and women of Latin America and the Caribbean, held these days in Bogota (see Fides 06/09/2015), a statement was issued in which the ...
• 24 June 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Jujuy: "We need the State’s strong support against drugs" Jujuy (Agenzia Fides) - The problem of drug addiction and drug trafficking in Argentina does not diminish but increases, children and young people today are the most vulnerable groups: this was denounced by the Bishop of ...
• 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 ...