America

• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - "Gold fever" increases human trafficking and sexual exploitation Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Childhood is a treasure that is worth much more than gold karat" is the title of the campaign promoted by the NGO Anesvad to denounce the reality in which people live in the Peruvian region of Mad ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Social movements denounce the failure of the UN Mission, protests in the streets Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Protests were held in the capital of Haiti against the presence of MINUSTAH (Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Estabilización en Haiti) due to its total failure. According to a note ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Public opinion divided on the request for the withdrawal of UNHCR from the country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The news that the Dominican Republic will ask the United Nations to withdraw its Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from the country and its representative ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dengue and chikungunya: the most affected age group ranges from 5 to 19 San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - According to recent data provided by the Directorate for Civil Protection of the State of El Salvador, the age groups of people most affected by chikungunya fever in the Country range from ...
• 22 September 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Waiting for the reform, migrant families continue to be divided Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Laredo (Texas, USA), His Exc. Mgr. James Anthony Tamayo, complained that the proposed immigration reform has not yet arrived and the federal authorities are separatin ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Proclaiming the Gospel in an Amazonian context: the challenge for the Bishop of Puerto Leguizamo-Solano Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the reality is quite intercultural, the Catholic Church remains the only institution that enjoys credibility": these are the words expressed by His Exc. Mgr. Joaquin Humberto Pinzón Gü ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The activist who fought for the Amazonian forest, against the deforestation of his land killed Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Edwin Chota, a leader of the Ashaninka community of the High Tamaya, in Peru, was killed along with three other members of his ethnic group, in an area on the border between Brazil and Peru. Edwin ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/URUGUAY – The meeting of the PMS of the American Southern Cone: working together for the mission Ad gentes Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the American Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil), met from 11 to 14 September on the outs ...
• 18 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Elections of October 5: corruption enters the electoral debate Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption scandals involving state oil company Petrobras entered the debate sponsored by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, which was attended by eight of the eleven presidential c ...
• 18 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - XV national meeting of the pastoral care of human mobility: "Listening to the migrant brother is like listening to the voice of Jesus" Yucatán (Agenzia Fides) - "Listening to the migrant brother is like listening to the voice of Jesus. Hence our mission is to restore the dignity of the migrant ... Today, the agent of the pastoral, priest, religious or ...
• 17 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Join forces for joint action: establishment of the "Red Eclesial Pan-Amazon" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil the meeting that led to the establishment of the "Red Eclesial Pan-Amazon" was held in recent days, organized by the Department ...
• 17 September 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – The Bishops on Law 779: the reform is urgent, the Church is not the auxiliary of the police Managua (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. César Bosco Vivas Robelo, Bishop of Leon, Vice president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), said that the Sandinista legislator Edwin Castro, chief representative of ...
• 16 September 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA – Poverty and violence afflict 34% of Costa Rica’s children San José (Agenzia Fides) – One of the worse scourges afflicting minors in Costa Rica today is poverty because it hampers physical, emotional and educational development. Recent figures sent to Fides speak of 34% of ...
• 16 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "To be free is to recognise goodness and see that evil enslaves”: Independence Day celebrations Tehuantepec (Agenzia Fides) – "Freedom is not a cry, freedom is not a declaration, freedom is an experience in which we citizens can live in harmony and with respect for one another": this was said by Bishop Oscar Arma ...
• 16 September 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Laity meet apostolic Nuncio, a tradition which encourages the unity of the Church Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The National Council for the Laity, a body of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela (CEV), has invited lay Catholics to a meeting with the Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, Archbishop ...