America
2 March 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Testimony of Mgr. Vidal: "Promises arrive in Cúcuta, never decisions"
Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) - "So far Cúcuta is related more with Venezuela than with Colombian hinterland. This is a very busy border, where many cucuteños (inhabitants of Cúcuta) have family in Venezuela. Venezuelan stu ...
2 March 2015
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Unexpected increase of cases of rotavirus in children: a thousand a week
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - The most common cause of severe diarrhea in children is due to infection known as rotavirus. Each year, health authorities in Costa Rica are ready to face the peak of the disease starting from ...
27 February 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - The number of child laborers, exploited and often unpaid continues to increase
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In 2013 about 2 million 500 thousand working children, between 5 and 17 years of age were registered in Mexico. They represent 8% of the total child population in this age group. Seven out o ...
27 February 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - 5 months after the death of the students of Ayotzinapa: a calm but critical attitude
Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, February 26, five months after the disappearance of the 43 students of Iguala (Guerrero, Mexico), the Bishop of the diocese of Zacatecas, His Exc. Mgr. Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, s ...
27 February 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops: "Stop murderous violence!"
San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Venezuela have asked Venezuelan authorities to stop violence and not to resort to "methods or weapons that are contrary to the law", making clear reference to the death of t ...
25 February 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mobilization for political Reform and transparent elections continues
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The "Coalition for Political and Democratic Reform for Transparent Elections", promotes today, Wednesday, February 25, in Brasilia, three important events for the mobilization in support of the ...
25 February 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - More violence and protests: 6 dead in six days of demonstrations
San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - Unasur (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) condems the violent death of Venezuelan student Klivert Roa, and reaffirms its willingness to find democratic and peaceful solutions regarding the ...
24 February 2015
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Campaign to help children in Tipnis suffering from malnutrition and poverty
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – With the slogan "Bread shared for the life of the world", the Catholic Church in Cochabamba proposes to collect funds on the 5th Sunday of Lent, 22 March, to purchase medicines and food sup ...
24 February 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Growing tension in the capital, Cardinal Urosa denounces murder of 3 students
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, denounced the death of three young men in the Venezuelan state of Táchira. He did so at the end of the 6th Archdiocesan Youth March, h ...
23 February 2015
AMERICA/PANAMA - “We must work for the poor”: Cardinal Lacunza says on the feast of Cristo de Atalaya
Veraguas (Agenzia Fides) – In Panama, the first Sunday of Lent is marked as the feast of Cristo de Atalaya, and Bishop Audilio Aguilar of the diocese of Santiago de Veraguas invited the newly created Cardinal José Lui ...
23 February 2015
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Fishing competition for boys and girls with disabilities
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – Boys and girls with Down syndrome, autism or whose physical conditions confine them to a wheel chair, recently took part with their respective families, in the Fifth Children’s Fishing Comp ...
23 February 2015
AMERICA/CHILE - Rudimental bomb explodes near a parish in the capital
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – “We live in a democratic society, where every individual is free to express his or her own ideas, violence cannot be a valid path for Chileans”: says a statement issued by the archdioces ...
21 February 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Lent: multimedia “On the way to Easter”
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – “On the way to Easter” is the title of a multimedia webpage produced for Lent by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia with images, suggested actions and ideas for prayer during ...
20 February 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO – Nine years of indifference and impunity: the tragedy of Pasta de Conchos mine
Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) – “Although nine years have passed since the tragedy of Pasta de Conchos Mine, complicity between the authorities and the Industrial Minera Mexico group, and the impunity which reigned in thi ...
20 February 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Police arrest Mayor of Caracas, for Archbishop Lückert “proof of dictatorship ”
Coro (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Archbishop of Coro (Venezuela), Archbishop Roberto Lückert, affirms that the arrest of the mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma, "is adding fuel to the fire ". Yesterday about 100 Vene ...
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