America

• 18 November 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: Bolivia presents a preliminary work plan La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of those responsible for the Missions of Bolivia is in Honduras to attend a meeting on the conclusions of the fourth American Missionary Congress (CAM 4-COMLA 9) that took place last ...
• 18 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church condemns the abduction of the General and urges to continue peace talks Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Archbishop of Tunja, has condemned the kidnapping of General Rubén Darío Alzate Mora carried ou ...
• 17 November 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church on the mega project of the Interoceanic Canal: "Everyone must be heard" Leon (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, has appealed to the government of Nicaragua so that it dialogues with farmer communities who have been protesting for two months against the planned ...
• 17 November 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A project to spread Afro culture among children of Yungas communities La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Afrobo foundation, which deals with the protection of the rights of Afro Bolivian children of different Yungas communities, has implemented a project for the dissemination of afro cu ...
• 17 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Peace talks have been suspended after general abducted Chocó (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government has suspended peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), after an army general was taken captive, in the west of the country. Colombian President ...
• 15 November 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - "Network for a Culture of meeting", also Cusco present at the XIII Meeting of RIIAL Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - The XIII Continental Meeting of the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America (RIIAL), an organization that relies on the support of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, takes pl ...
• 15 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A Comboni missionary found dead in a mass grave, among other bodies Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The body of Fr. John Ssenyondo, a Comboni missionary of Ugandan nationality, was found in a mass grave near the town of Chilapa, along with other dead bodies. This is confirmed to Fides by ...
• 14 November 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - In defense of family rights: draft law rejected Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday afternoon with 21 votes against, the Senators of Paraguay rejected the draft law entitled "against any kind of discrimination". There were 17 votes in favor, while one abstained and s ...
• 14 November 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church online, in English and Spanish Washington (Agenzia Fides) - A publication on the Internet with over 700 pages, in English and Spanish, with a very clear index and a search engine to quickly find any word: is what the Episcopal Conference of the United ...
• 13 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - From victims of violence to the protagonists of peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The project to have a clear and effective "place" in the process of rebuilding peace in Colombia, was proposed at the end of the fifth meeting of the Association of Victims of the conflict in Col ...
• 13 November 2014
  AMERICA/CUBA - Poverty forces children to beg in the streets and work Havana (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, child labor in Cuba is still a heavy plague. Some children are forced by their own parents to beg. The majority of Cuban workers earn very little ...
• 13 November 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Students attending Catholic schools increase Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic schools provide lasting faith formation, vocations to the religious life and priesthood, high educational attainments, and communities of the New Evangelization and should reach out ...
• 13 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexican Bishops: "We do not want more blood, people killed or who disappear ... Enough!" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The 98th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Mexico (CEM) is being held from 10 to 14 November, which has the aim to "listen to God speaking to us through His Word and the events ...
• 12 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - At least 19 countries around the world recruit child soldiers Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The latest data collected by the NGO Amnesty International, updated to 2012, confirm that it is difficult to know exactly how many children are currently being forced across the world to take par ...
• 12 November 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - To strengthen missionary commitment in spite of violence in the country and people's indifference Chimaltenango (Agenzia Fides) - From November 7 to 9 more than 2000 and 500 people from 14 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, gave birth to the fourth Missionary Congress of Guatemala (COMGUA) in the city of Ch ...