America

• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - SOS of the Bishop on the proliferation of dengue fever Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the growing number of patients with dengue fever, the Bishop of the Diocese of Cúcuta (Colombia), Mgr. Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz, highlighted the situation in this part of the countr ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Analysis of the socio-cultural impacts of mining and contribution of missionaries Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - Destruction of nature, the exclusion of indigenous people from social life, human trafficking: these are some of the effects of the extraction of natural resources in South eastern Peru ...
• 11 December 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drug and human trafficking: "There are people who have money stained with blood in their pocket" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Drug and human trafficking are criminal activities carried out by organized criminal gangs, who earn territories with corruption in various structures of society and the State. Some people ...
• 11 December 2014
  AMERICA - The new land of the "landless", a living and current history Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of the movement of the "landless" of Brazil, who continue to struggle in search of their own fate, like that of other similar movements of the continent, is presented in the n. 27 ...
• 10 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church close to the families of the missing students and engaged in proposing solutions Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Bishops expressed their condolences to Ezequiel Mora, father of Alexander, one of 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, whose remains have been identified by experts (see Fides 10/1 ...
• 10 December 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Church-Government meeting on the Interoceanic Canal Managua (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the march scheduled for today, December 10, against the construction of the Interoceanic Canal between the Pacific and the Atlantic, which would expel thousands of farmers from the ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – After14 years ordination of 9 Indigenous permanent deacons San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – Nine members of the Tzeltales Indigenous peoples were ordained as permanent deacons on 2 December in the community of Guadalupe Paxilhá, Chilo city. The news was announced ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Foyer Bethlehem: “giving persons with disabilities what nature and human indifference have denied them” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – In Haïti the cost of living is very high, the country is forced to important everything from abroad. The situation of the people is precarious and living conditions of persons with di ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Young man dies to obtain justice San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – A sad" and "desperate act": said Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of the diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Chiapas - Mexico), referring to the tragic gesture of a yo ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty, few infrastructures and precarious preventive measures: fertile terrain for Chikungunya virus Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cases of the Chikungunya virus (acute fever) registered in Venezuela are double those found in 37 other countries. According to the All-American Health Organisation, the pandemic can be consid ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Torreón calls for “more proposals and less protests to achieve peace” Torreón (Agenzia Fides) – “More proposals and less protests, to restore peace” Bishop José Guadalupe Galván Galindo of the diocese of Torreón, Coahuila (Mexico), urged the diocese community, preparing to celebr ...
• 5 December 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – Electoral certificate renewal: Bishops speak out Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) – The news that renewal of electoral certificates could close on 31 December, is causing long lines in front of CSE, Supreme Electoral Council offices. General elections in Nicaragua are sched ...
• 5 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace talks resume December 10 Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian government and FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Forces) will resume peace talks on 10 December. The announcement was made yesterday from Cuba in a joint statement by delegations of ...
• 4 December 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Paraguayan Missionaries join fellow Paraguayans in Argentina to celebrate Our Lady of Caacupé AMERICA/PARAGUAY – Paraguayan Missionaries join fellow Paraguayans in Argentina to celebrate Our Lady of Caacupé Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 3 December, a group of 25 Paraguayan missionaries, departed fo ...
• 3 December 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - COP 20: world meeting for climatic justice, churches together to care for creation Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Members and partners of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have called for the promotion from a faith perspective of a cause for climatic justice during the 20th United Nations Climate Change Co ...