America

• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops call for three days of prayer for the Church-Government meeting Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua invite Nicaraguans to pray for the next Church-Government meeting, which will take place on May 21, an opportunity to open a dialogue with President Daniel Ortega Saaved ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – What is feared is the failure of peace talks, today new student demonstration Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between the Venezuelan government and the opposition, which began in April in response to student protests and the political and socio-economic crisis prevailing in the country, is on t ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The country is sick of violence": proposal of Bishops to respond to this reality Lomas Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Lomas de Zamora (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J., rejected the criticisms expressed by members of the government to the document entitled "Blessed are the ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS -Condemnation of the Church for the murder of children, violence does not stop in the country Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad to hear the news of children who are killed. Authors of these crimes are completely overwhelmed by evil", said Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The number of working children, deprived of education and health care, continues to increase Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - About 12% of the population between 5 and 17 years of age is engaged in different types of work, the most common are window cleaners and shoeshiners. According to a recent study carried ou ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishops: "It is time to take action to approve the immigration reform" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The group of Catholic bishops who on April 1, celebrated the Mass in the United States-Mexico border for immigrants who died in the desert (see Fides 02/04/2014), will travel to Campidoglio o ...
• 12 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Challenges before the elections", the Bishops call the national community to vote in a conscious way Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "With this text we launch an appeal to Brazilians so they themselves express their right to vote in a conscious way": this is what the Archbishop of Aparecida and President of the Conference o ...
• 12 May 2014
  AMERICA/CANADA - Cameroonian priest killed in a firefight in Canada Saint Paul (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Paul Terrio, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul in Alberta (Canada) and the Catholic community of Saint Paul, mourn the violent death of Father Gilbert Dasna, of the Congregation of th ...
• 8 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 800 women and 18 000 children under five years of age die from preventable causes worldwide every day Washington (Agenzia Fides) - About 800 mothers and 18 000 children under five years of age die from preventable causes Worldwide every day . This is what is stated in the report "State of the World’s Mothers" just publ ...
• 8 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Brotherhood and solidarity respond to those who promote hatred between Haitians and Dominicans Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has no doubts: the neighboring peoples of Haiti and Santo Domingo are joined by acts of brotherhood and solidarity, they are two countries that are experiencing the same reality on the s ...
• 7 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Over the past six years more than 42 thousand people have disappeared involuntarily Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Violence in the last six years in Mexico has also increased human rights violations. An example of this phenomenon is given by the forced disappearance of 42 thousand 300 people, of whom alm ...
• 7 May 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - New assignments in the Episcopal Conference, always striving for the weakest Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the 25 dioceses of Ecuador, along with eight auxiliary Bishops (with the right to vote) have come together to elect today, May 7, the new President of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Confe ...
• 7 May 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - The decline in vocations to priesthood at the center of the Assembly of Bishops of Chile Punta de Tralca (Agenzia Fides) - With a Mass presided by the Apostolic Nuncio in Chile, Archbishop Ivo Scapolo, the 107th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Chile (CECh) began, which takes place from May 5 t ...
• 6 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous children and adolescents forced to leave school to work or to marry Merida (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico and Yucatan, indigenous girls, boys and adolescents constitute a high proportion of the population vulnerable to the conditions of poverty in which they live, which lead them not to enj ...
• 5 May 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "We cannot continue to bury young people every day" denounced Mgr. Rosa Chavez San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, in his usual press conference on Sunday, said that on Tuesday 29 April he had participated in the meeting with the ...