America

• 24 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appeal and prayers for the students kidnapped: "Let them come back alive" Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - "The pilgrimage-march held yesterday, October 23 ended with an appeal for reconciliation on behalf of the Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa (Guerrero), His Exc. Mgr. Alejo Zavala Castro, and h ...
• 23 October 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - A new location of the detention center in San Pedro Sula for the sake of prisoners San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "Five months of work without interruption" says with satisfaction Mgr. Rómulo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F., Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula (Honduras), who hopes for the arrival of other ...
• 22 October 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The right to food for 700,000 people suffering hunger: it is not food that is lacking, but justice Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Hunger is not caused by lack of food, but by the lack of justice": this is how the text sent to Fides Agency by local sources begins, which presents the campaign of Caritas in Honduras. "Ca ...
• 21 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - When you do not respect the right of even one person, it jeopardizes the right of all Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Continue to look for students in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, and punish the guilty: this is what the Secretary of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), His Exc. Mgr. Eugenio Lira Rugarcía says to t ...
• 21 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 2000 children have been killed or maimed between 2006 and 2014 Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The increase of children who disappear or are recruited by criminal gangs in Mexico and are killed or maimed continues to be alarming. This is denounced by the Inter-American Commission on ...
• 21 October 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – May Saint John Paul II accompany Venezuela in the paths of peace and justice Chacao (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela, Archbishop Aldo Giordano, took part in the tribute to Pope John Paul II prepared by the authorities of Venezuela in Chacao, one of the five municipalities that ...
• 21 October 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Indigenous people continue to be discriminated against, undernourished and not protected Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Amazon region and the provinces of Bolivar, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Esmeraldas is where the highest percentages of children and adolescents who live in conditions of poverty are concentrated, ...
• 20 October 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - A hundred thousand on a pilgrimage for the family to the shrine of the first Chilean Saint Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - With the Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago of Chile, His Exc. Mgr. Galo Fernandez on Saturday, October 18, the 24th pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Teresa of the An ...
• 20 October 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Violence increases more and more and families are the most affected San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We see that the violence increases more and more (...), the violence we are currently experiencing is even more brutal between security forces and organized crime": these are the worrying ...
• 17 October 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "We hope peace is near" says Cardinal Salazar Gómez Pereira (Agenzia Fides) - During his visit to the city of Pereira, the Colombian Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, Archbishop of Bogota, spoke of the seriousness of the peace process, hoping that the ELN is able to enter i ...
• 16 October 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti will ask for an extension to the Dominican Republic to regulate the "sans papiers" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Haiti, Pierre Duly Brutus, said yesterday in Santo Domingo that his country will ask the Dominican Republic to extend the deadline fixed by the latter so ...
• 15 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Never accept violence as a solution", warns Mgr. Lona Reyes who proposes a prayer campaign Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Arturo Lona Reyes, asked the Bishops of the whole country to hold special prayer days after the massacre of Iguala (i ...
• 14 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops on the Iguala case: "clarify what happened, the truth is the path to justice" Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the dioceses that constitute the ecclesiastical province of Acapulco (Tlapa, Ciudad Altamirano, Chilpancingo - Chilapa and Acapulco) have expressed their deep concern with regard ...
• 13 October 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Caminando con amor": 5,000 pairs of shoes have been distributed for children at risk San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - The solidarity campaign of "Caminando con amor", now in its fourth edition, has taken steps to distribute 5,000 pairs of shoes to children who are socially at risk and are part of the var ...
• 11 October 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mission Month: schools in Sucre also go on missions Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - During mission month the Catholic Church invites all people to join in solidarity activities and help in the collection of donations on 19 October for World Mission Sunday. As reported in the st ...