America

• 1 April 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Special care for children infected with chikungunya Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In Colombia, until the month of February, about 25 000 cases of chikungunya virus were registered regarding children under 9 years of age and almost 29 000 among 10 to 19 year olds. According to ...
• 1 April 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Morales's party wins, but loses much political ground La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Fides, after the municipal and regional elections on March 29, the " Movimiento al Socialismo" (MAS) of President Evo Morales managed to remain as the first polit ...
• 1 April 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops' of Paranà: "We too suffer with the people ..." Apucarana (Agenzia Fides) - "We too suffer with the people because of violence, rural exodus, migration, conflict over land", say the Bishops of the south region 2 of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of Brazi ...
• 31 March 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The denunciation of the Bishop of Piedras Negras: Too many missing persons of whom we know nothing Piedras Negras (Agenzia Fides) - Relatives of missing persons are angry and feel helpless seeing that there are no results from the investigation to find out where their loved ones are, but the worst thing is that people ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Little Sisters of The Poor gather for last Mass in Cleveland Shaker Heights (Agenzia Fides) – Palm Sunday was the last time that the Little Sisters of the Poor gathered for Mass at their longtime home in suburban Cleveland, in the state of Ohio. The Catholic nuns are leaving bec ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - Floods and landslides: 12 dead and thousands displaced, Caritas at work Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) - A group of experts of Caritas and the diocese, led by Mgr. Celestino Aós Braco, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Copiapó, reached the areas affected by landslides and flooding to verify the situation of ...
• 30 March 2015
  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, ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Submitted a bill to facilitate the immigration of Middle Eastern persecuted Christians Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Two members of the US Congress elected in California have introduced a bill aimed at encouraging immigration to the United States of members belonging to religious minorities threatened with ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Joy in the suffering: Sincelejo welcomes the new Bishop remembering the pastor killed Sincelejo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Colombia, Archbishop Mgr. Ettore Balestrero, asked the diocesan community of Sincelejo to pray for Fr. Fernando Meza Luna, brutally murdered by robbers on March 21 (see ...
• 28 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The denunciation of Bishops after the visit in Texas: "Why imprison the most vulnerable?" Olinda and Recife (Agenzia Fides) - "After this visit, my main question is: why? Why imprison these vulnerable people, young and traumatized mothers who, with their children fled from persecution in their own countries?" ...
• 27 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Delegation of Bishops to visit a detention center for immigrant families San Antonio (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will visit today, Friday, March 27, a detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas, to learn more about t ...
• 27 March 2015
  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 ...
• 27 March 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Group of Spanish Catholic volunteers give support to Nicaraguan children León (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 years ago a group of faithful of a Spanish parish in Madrid traveled to the city of León, Nicaragua. They met malnourished children and families with problems related to alcohol. Faced w ...
• 26 March 2015
  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 ...
• 26 March 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - More than 6 million to vote: the Bishops call for free and fair elections Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Bolivia invite the national community to exercise the civil right to vote in good conscience, in freedom and with attention to the common good of citizens. The President of the ...