America

• 12 January 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Recalling the earthquake in Haiti with the testimony of Zilda Arns Curitiba (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10 about 30,000 Brazilians participated in a ceremony and a Mass in the stadium of the city of Curitiba, Paraná state (southern Brazil) to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the e ...
• 12 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Shops are empty: Cardinal Urosa calls on the government to act quickly and urges to remain calm Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Archbishop of Caracas, Jorge Urosa Savino, urged Venezuelans to remain calm before the critical situation they are experiencing regarding the lack of food, and urged the government to s ...
• 9 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Tuberculosis and Chagas disease out of control in the Chaco Resistencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the Argentine province of Chaco, tuberculosis and Chagas disease are out of control. According to data from the Institute of Social, Economic Research and Citizen Policy (ISEPCi), about 5 ...
• 9 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The priests of Guerrero "continue to preach the Gospel as always" despite threats and blackmail, Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church welcomes the new year with great concern due to the wave of violence and insecurity in the state of Guerrero: this is what the Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chil ...
• 8 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI – 5 years after the earthquake the Catholic Church is helping Haiti to recover Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 12 people from Haiti arrived in Rome yesterday, January 7, where they will attend the meeting to be held at the Vatican on Saturday, January 10 on the fifth anniversary of ...
• 8 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Assembly of Bishops: dialogue to end the crisis and the necessity to find agreed solutions Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of Pope Francis in favor of the family with concrete gestures and with the III Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the canonization of two Popes, the anniversary of the ...
• 7 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The jungle law" does not stop theft Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) - After the lynching which took place on January 5 in the village of La Cantera (Puebla, Mexico), where one person was killed and three others were seriously injured by locals, the Bishop of the ...
• 7 January 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The "National Catholic Schools Week 2015" will be observed in dioceses around the country from January 25–31. This year’s theme, “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and S ...
• 5 January 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week 2015: "We are one family" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - National Migration Week 2015 is taking place from January 4–10, organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’(USCCB), to raise awareness about the hardships faced by migrants. "T ...
• 5 January 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Open your eyes and ears": warning of the church for the election campaign Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 4 Mgr. Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D., Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) in his homily told the Bolivian community not to be brainwahed ...
• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The street is my family": Christmas season: love for children, youth and marginalized people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Street children spent the holiday season alone, gathered in the cold in Mexico City, marginalized, forgotten, excluded from society and surrounded by filth, rats and roaches. Poverty and vio ...
• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA - Drastic increase of children who try to escape from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Children in Central America find themselves living in one of the most dangerous places . Children under 18 years of age are more likely to die murdered more than any other cause. According to the ...
• 29 December 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence continues to affect mainly children and adolescents Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people continue to be the most vulnerable populations groups who suffer violence in Honduras. According to the English charitable NGO Casa Alianza, compared to 2013, an ad ...
• 23 December 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Entrepreneurial initiatives for poor women San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest national census of households, the unemployment rate in Costa Rica has always been much higher among women than men, by a margin of 3%. In addition, 43.3% women-headed h ...
• 23 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America where to exercise the priestly ministry Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Over the last 24 years, 47 attacks against members of the Catholic Church have been committed, of whom 45 are minor offenses and 2 correspond to priests who have disappeared. These data indi ...