America

• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The appeal of 450 thousand working children: "We do not want to be exploited" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of the exploitation of minors; the defense of labor as an educational and dignified factor for the human being; the problem of working conditions of boys, girls and adolescents, ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "God did not create borders": for 65 years a Mass for brotherhood between Chile and Argentina Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand Chileans and Argentines met again at the foot of the "Christ of Tromen", in the province of Neuquén (Argentina-Chile border), to attend Mass which every year, for 65 yea ...
• 3 March 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - There are 6000 teachers: one million children do not go to school Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In Honduras, the State has decided that teachers who retire should not be replaced. Therefore more than one million children remain uneducated. The tendency is to close schools in the towns ...
• 3 March 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Classes suspended in the University of Tachira, false accusations made against the Catholic University Táchira (Agenzia Fides) - Classes at the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira (UNET), the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) headquarters of Táchira and the Catholic University of Táchira (UCAT) have been suspend ...
• 3 March 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA – Towards CAM 5: Continental Meeting of the PMS America Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the American continent is taking place in Cuba. According to the program sent to Fides, the National Directors w ...
• 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 ...