America

• 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. ...
• 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 ...