America

• 30 May 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE – Local Catholic Church committed to educational reform nation wide Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Chile looks with hope towards the reform of the country’s education system, the Bishops say this reform is very necessary, as interest and desire to cooperate for its ...
• 30 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Once again Catholic Bishops urge politicians to approve without delay immigration reform Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The same group of American Catholic Bishops who went on April 1st this year to the border between Arizona and Mexico to commemorate more than six thousand people who lost their lives while ...
• 28 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and civil authorities together for the safety of citizens Santa Rosa ( Agenzia Fides) - "It is always good to find other people who are at the service of the community, especially knowing that we work for the same purpose, for the same people. I am convinced that dialogue is th ...
• 28 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Economic support for Haitian mothers who live in extreme poverty Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The social program Ti Manman Cheri is an initiative which provides economic support to women living in extreme poverty with one or more children and is a real success for the local admi ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Emergency for public hospitals in the Country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – There is emergency in the health care sector in the Dominican Republic, in spite of the tremendous efforts to provide equipment and improve facilities in hospitals. According to health c ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishop of Chimbote: "to link all to criminality is just junk journalism" Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Chimbote, His Exc. Mgr. Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno, was deeply shocked to learn that some media defined him belonging to the criminal organization that operates in the area of ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Isolated due to the rain and without the aid of the authorities, "but we are also Paraguayans", cries the Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - The isolation and abandonment in which state authorities have long since left the population of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguay, Paraguay, was strongly denounced by the Apostolic Vicar, ...
• 26 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - After 10 years, President Kirchner takes part in the Te Deum for the national holiday Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli, presided yesterday, Sunday 25 May, the celebration of the Eucharist and the Te Deum of thanksgiving in the Metropolitan Cathedra ...
• 26 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From America to Africa: Missionary Sending at the conclusion of the First American Congress of IAM Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - With the celebration of the Missionary Sending in the auditorium of the Shrine of Aparecida, the First Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (IAM) of America (see Fides 15/05/2014; ...
• 26 May 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Meeting with the candidates: an initiative of the Church for the October elections Chuquisaca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops and the heads of the Social Pastoral-Caritas Bolivia have proposed dialogue meetings with the candidates of the upcoming general elections in October, in order to elaborate togeth ...
• 23 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Statement of the diocese: The boys did not launch grenades at the police Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Tumaco casts doubt on the version of the National Police, according to which on May 14, two boys (Pier Angelo Cabezas and Luis Sebastian Preciado) had launched a grenade at a group ...
• 23 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The First American Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence thenestnjdneatndjenjndjetnjdneatn Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 23, the First Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (IAM), begins and will end on Sunday 25th. The congress will be held at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - On a mission in the vulnerable suburbs of society: migrants, itinerant people, displaced ... City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 delegates, including Bishops, priests, religious women and lay people, all engaged in pastoral work with migrants, refugees and displaced persons, the apostolate of the Sea, and touri ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Three thousand children involved in drug trafficking: alarm of the local authorities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of 2014, 3000 children and 37 000 adults have been involved in micro drug trafficking and have been arrested. According to estimates by the Colombian National Police, the phen ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Dialogue between the Church and government begins: "In search of new horizons for a better Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) met yesterday afternoon, 21 May, in the Apostolic Nunciature, with the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, paving the way for dialog ...