America

• 28 July 2015
  AMERICA/URUGUAY – State schools for children with disabilities Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – Following various appeals from civil society the Uruguayan Council For Basic Primary Education (CEIP) announced that the next budget will include a project for the creation of 60 state scho ...
• 27 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mariachi Zombie: amusing animated television series discredits bad zombie myth Jalisco (Agenzia Fides) – Mariachi zombie is the title of a new television cartoon series just launched in Mexico. Mariachi zombie is a programme of entertainment for children aged 7-11 comprising 52 episodes each 11 m ...
• 25 July 2015
  AMERICA/PERU – 100 years of mission among indigenous women in the Amazon AMERICA/PERU – 100 years of mission among indigenous women in the Amazon Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) – One hundred years ago in 1915, Dominican Sisters arrived in Peru from Spain to dedicate themselves to provi ...
• 25 July 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL – Franciscan Sister murdered AMERICA/BRAZIL – Franciscan Sister murdered Guaratinguetá (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Irma Odete Francisca, aged 65, a member of the Institute of the Franciscan Sisters of Siessen, was murdered yesterday 24 July at La ...
• 24 July 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Working at prevention” can put an end to violence, says Bishop Peña Rodríguez Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Dominican Republic, Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, has launched a proposal to focus on prevention in order to addres ...
• 24 July 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Parishes shelter demonstrators demanding solutions to the mining question AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Parishes shelter demonstrators demanding solutions to the mining question Potosì (Agenzia Fides) – Clashes between the Bolivian government and trade unionists groups in Potosì, demanding safety ...
• 23 July 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru and Brazil together to eradicate child labour in Amazonia Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – The governments of Peru and Brazil are launching a campaign to promote the eradication of child labour in Amazonia. On August 8 in Iquitos, the largest city in Peru’s Amazon region, there wi ...
• 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 ...