America

• 9 February 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Zacatecas: "People die every day" Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Zacatecas, His Exc. Mgr. Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, has again deplored the violence that has intensified since the beginning of the year in Fresnillo, where dead bodies are foun ...
• 6 February 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The young engaged with migrants write to the Pope Arizona (Fides) - The organization KBI (Kino Border Initiative) aims to contribute to the management of migration between the US and Mexico in a just, humane and sustainable manner, promoting policies that put the dignit ...
• 6 February 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary organizations at work in 2015: Permanent formation and suburbs Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In 2014 seventeen missionary formation initiatives were carried out: in particular, two courses for foreign missionaries (90 days each); two missionary formation courses for Brazilian men and w ...
• 5 February 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - In August, the beatification of three missionaries killed: the first martyrs of the diocese and Peru Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will be in Peru in August, in the diocese of Chimbote, for the beatification of the three missionaries declared mart ...
• 5 February 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Feast in Ciudad Barrios, the birthplace of Mgr. Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – There was immense joy in the small town of El Salvador known as Ciudad Barrios where Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born in 1917. After decades of debate within the Church, Pope Francis has for ...
• 4 February 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The three missionaries killed in 1991 will be beatified because they were close to the poorest Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican announced that Polish Order of Friars Minor Conventual Michael Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strazalkowski, along with Italian diocesan priest Father Alessandro Dordi, were killed "in hatre ...
• 4 February 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Romero Beato: "Immense joy in the Salvadoran Church"; "It will be a historic event," emphasizes the Presidency San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "A great joy in the Church of El Salvador to hear the news on the decree approving the martyrdom of Monsignor Romero. Let us continue to pray": was the comment by the Archdiocese of San Sal ...
• 3 February 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Auxiliary Bishop: we do not negotiate any truce, we want an open dialogue with all San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Solve violence with violence does not work", said Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, referring to the method that the authorities want ...
• 3 February 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Card. Maradiaga supports the "Plan de la Alianza para la Prosperidad" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Card. Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has assured the support of the Catholic Church regarding the "Plan de la Alianza para la Prosperidad" (PAP) which involves ...
• 31 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Four churches attacked in Mérida Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Four Catholic churches were hit by petrol bombs and even the Apostolic Nuncio, Aldo Giordano, who is visiting the city of Mérida is the target of these attacks. The incident occurred yesterday ...
• 30 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Parra robbed during a parish meeting: "Money is spent on many things, but not on safety" Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot continue like this, I do not see concrete action against violence", said His Exc. Mgr. Mariano José Parra Sandoval, Bishop of Ciudad Guyana (Venezuela) after being robbed, alo ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - A reception center for HIV children Ciudad de Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - The San Jose Reception Center, founded in Guatemala in 1985 as a non- governmental organization to help HIV-positive children who are abandoned, orphaned or sick. Currently the cente ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Nearly 50 000 children victims of homicide because of armed conflict Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - More than two million children are victims of violence in Colombia: abused and displaced. According to a document published by the Victims Unit, sent to Agenzia Fides, currently 2,182,707 child ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The country remembers "the Bishop of the Indios" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador is celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Mgr. Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba, the "Bishop de los Indios", as he was called by everyone in the Latin American country, who dedicated ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - "We have lost a great opportunity": criticism regarding the Law on Education Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Chile, through its Commission for Education, is disappointed that the new Law on Education recently approved by Congress, does not address issues related to governmen ...