America

• 20 January 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Pastoral letter: "Some people are more interested in profit than man himself" Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of the Patron of the diocese, Our Lord of Esquipulas, the Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua), His Exc. Mgr. Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, called on the Catholic community to live coh ...
• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - New cabinet of Haiti to be sworn in today Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The ministers of the new government of Haiti should swear in today, Monday, January 19, at 4 pm (local time), as announced by President Michel Martelly last night. The President had promi ...
• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Zacatecas: The closure of mines is everyone’s problem Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - The social situation in the region of Zacatecas is very tense due to the layoff of about 400 workers in the mines of a large Canadian company in Peñasquito. According to an official report of ...
• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Missionary Father Bachs has died, defender of the right to education of young people in need Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Priest, teacher and tireless defender of the right to education of children and young people in need. 80-year-old Father Antonio Bachs SJ, one of the founders of the movement "Fe y Alegría" in Per ...
• 17 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must stop violent groups", said Bishop Gallardo Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Veracruz, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Felipe Gallardo Martin del Campo, S.D.B. said that the authorities have the "terror" of receiving accusations by the National Human Rig ...
• 16 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO – The Bishops of Guerrero appreciate the good will of the army Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the four dioceses of the area of Guerrero have positively judged the army's decision to give free access to military facilities to families looking for the 42 students who disapp ...
• 16 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The New Testament in Tsotsil language in the pipeline San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Biblical Pastoral Care of the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM), led by Mgr. Florencio Armando Colin, went to the diocese of San Cristobal de Las Cas ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Divine Word Missionaries from Asia, Africa and Oceania work in Argentina Oberá (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 15, the feast of Saint Arnold Janssen, founder of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), the Bishop of the diocese of Oberá (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Damián Santiago Bitar, recal ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA - New web portal of CELAM, to reach the "suburbs" of the continent Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "A portal of portals", this is how the new web page can be described that was opened recently by the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) and is promoted by all the Bishops' Conferences of L ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Over 3000 child beggars on the streets of big cities Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Near the traffic lights of the Las Colinas colony in Tegucigalpa children continuously beg. The many young children between 2 and 15 years of age are forced by adults to this kind of life an ...
• 14 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI – Parliament dissolved, demonstrations against President increase Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Parliament in Haiti has been dissolved after the failure of last-ditch negotiations over a new electoral law, according to a twitter sent to Fides. President Michel Martelly now effective ...
• 14 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Corruption: a serious disease that has infected all Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The country is seriously injured and infected with a bacterium that has brought democracy to the point of death: corruption, a common practice that has become 'something natural', to the po ...
• 13 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Dialogue to end the crisis: the exhortation of the Episcopal Conference Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "Ethical and spiritual renewal before the crisis", the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela has published a pastoral exhortation articulated in 24 points that invites Christians to r ...
• 13 January 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still controversy about the transoceanic canal: the Bishops call for clarity Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Improvised" and "without being verified technically": is how the president of the Academy of Sciences of Nicaragua, Manuel Ortega Hegg, defined the "change" in the route of the transoceanic can ...
• 12 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Agreement between the President and opposition: elections in 2015 Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Just 5 years after the earthquake, the President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, and about twenty political leaders yesterday, January 11, signed the agreement to carry out elections in 2015. ...