America

• 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 ...
• 20 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Mgr. Moreno Barron’s appeal: Go and vote, do not sell your vote Tlaxcala (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the elections to be held on 7 June His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Moreno Barron, Bishop of Tlaxcala, has accused politicians of being responsible for what happens in Tlaxcala, namely ...
• 20 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Half a million families with serious addictions to alcohol and drugs Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Half a million Argentine families have severe addictions and the abuse of alcohol has become the main problem and plague: this was stressed in the first report of the "Barometro del Narcotr ...
• 20 May 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 90% of HIV-positive Dominicans live in extreme poverty Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - 90% of the approximately 80,000 people with HIV in the Dominican Republic live in extreme poverty. AIDS patients die of hunger, they are unemployed, marginalized from society, deprived of ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - The main problems of childhood in Chile: Sexual exploitation, trafficking, drugs, alcohol Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - 47.2% of sexually exploited children in Chile do not go to school. The consumption of drugs and alcohol are other risk factors that aggravate the situation. The alarm was launched by t ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR – Preparation for the beatification of Mgr. Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "El Salvador prepares the most important days of its history" is one of the headlines that circulates in the capital San Salvador in recent days. "We have waited 35 years", says a woman who ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Six million Mexican children do not go to school because of discrimination Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Currently at a national level, out of 40 million children, six million children between 3 to 7 years of age do not go to school. According to a recent study released by the National Council ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Casa-Hogar "Padre Machado" in El Valle occupied with violence for a few hours Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Around 2 am on Monday, May 18, a group of about 30 women and 18 children violently entered Casa-Hogar "Padre Machado", in the village of El Valle (Caracas, Venezuela ), occupying the premises an ...
• 18 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First Report on the scourge of drugs prepared by UCA Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Argentina today, May 18, presents the first report of the "Barometro of Narcotrafico y Adicciones en Argentina" prepared by researchers of the Catholic University of Argentina ...
• 18 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - First agreement between former political prisoners and government, Mgr. Goic President of the Commission Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - A hunger strike carried out by 117 former political prisoners lasted a little over a month, divided in groups in different locations around the country, who among other things, call for the inc ...
• 16 May 2015
  AMERICA - Message of the XXXV General Assembly of CELAM: "Living a missionary conversion as a church which goes forth" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The translation of the New Testament of the "Bible of the Church in America" (BIA), the creation of the Pan-Amazon ecclesial network (REPAM) to respond effectively to the challenges of the ...