AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Minors remain a forgotten Sector of the population
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - In Bolivia there are over 4 million children and adolescents that represent 44% of the population. Unfortunately for many reasons a child continues to be a very vulnerable sector of society, ...
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV has passed away
Chicago (Agenzia Fides) - His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East passed away on Thursday morning, March 26 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Patriarch Mar Dinkha was ...
AMERICA/CUBA - Cardinal Ortega: "dialogue, the new name of love"
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - He agrees to be called "a man of dialogue" but not "a diplomatic". "Dialogue - he says - is the new name of love". This is what the only Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, Archbishop of San Cri ...
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Concern of the Church: peace talks must continue
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The possibility to postpone the establishment of a formal table for dialogue for peace between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) would lead to stop peace talks with ...
25 March 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Minors exploited and underpaid
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Child population is around two million in Honduras and 14% are involved in the labor market. According to the National Institute of Statistics 371 386 children between 5 and 17 years of age ...
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Young people want to know more about Romero"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Today El Salvador lives a special day: across the country commemorative celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the assassination of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Rome ...