America

• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/PERU’ - “Ninos de plomo” Children of Lead: education programme for mineral contaminated minors Callao (Agenzia Fides) – They are all little inhabitants of a shanty town around Puerto Nuevo, in the district of Callao, Peru, who live situations at risk, day in day out, contaminated by lead, because of environment ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church at National Conference for Peace: find ways and means for dialogue to resolve the difficulties of Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, yesterday Wednesday 26 February, opened the National Conference for Peace, with the participation of representatives of all the social sectors, only ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - We Colombians cannot be indifferent to the suffering experienced by our brothers and sisters in Venezuela Cali (Agenzia Fides) – The secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, Bishop José Daniel Falla Robles, auxiliary of Cali, has called on all Colombians to unite in prayer and solidarity with t ...
• 26 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “A process of reconciliation is necessary”, Bishops call dialogue to discover the truth Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “With deep concern we watch the events happening in our country. Above all we see the violence, with its tragic consequences, people dead and wounded. The dead and the wounded belong neither ...
• 26 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Christians in prayer to accompany imminent National Peace Conference Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Mariano José Parra Sandoval of the diocese of Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela) and Pastor Christian Sebastia of the local Church of Jesus Christ, have urged all local Christians to ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES – The Church should never forget her duty to accompany immigrants towards integration Washington (Agenzia Fides) – “Immigrants will only be able to integrate in American society if they feel ‘strong’, and the Catholic Church should never forget her role to accompany our immigrant communities " sa ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Classrooms under water, 10 toilets and no water for more than 1000 pupils Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – Damp classrooms, muddy walls falling to pieces await school children in Cochabamba. “There is more rain water inside the school than outside” say the parents of children at the school ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - “A presence in the eyes of the world for our small country”: newly created Cardinal Langlois speaks with Fides Roma (Agenzia Fides) – He is the youngest Cardinal created in the Consistory held in recent days and the first Cardinal in the history of Haiti: his Eminence Chibly Langlois, Archbishop Les Cayes, aged 55, kindly gave ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Dialogue between two parties on equal terms, not between weak and powerful Jerico (Agenzia Fides) – The block has been lifted to open the road leading to the Anglo Gold Ashanti mining area, in the town of Jerico of Antioquia (Colombia), where about 500 peasants from Quebradona, Vallecito, La ...
• 24 February 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Campaign to vaccinate children against measles and rubella Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning in April, the Programma Ampliado di Immunizzazione (PAI) is organizing in Paraguay, for one month, a campaign to vaccinate children aged 1 to 5 years, against measles and rubella. ...
• 24 February 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “We must be all involved to stop the violence” says the Bishop of Zacatecas Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) –Bishop Sigifredo Noriega Barceló of the Mexican diocese of Zacatecas, affirmed that to tackle the drug-culture present in the country it is necessary to combine efforts on the part of the c ...
• 24 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombians deported from Venezuela: Catholic Bishops in border area dioceses work to provide assistance and promote peace Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) – Bishops in dioceses along the border between Colombia and Venezuela have welcomed the initiative by Venezuela’s head of state, Nicolas Maduro, to convoke a national peace conference on Wedne ...
• 21 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa to the government: "dialogue that recognizes the country's problems " Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, urged President Nicolas Maduro to recognize the serious problems of the country, given the wave of protests that have caused deaths and injuri ...
• 21 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The army must be armored against corruption Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The army must be armored against corruption", said His Exc. Mgr. Fabio Suescun Mutis, Vice President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia. The brief interview, sent to Fides Agency by the loc ...
• 21 February 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Half a million child laborers, exploited in activities which are dangerous to health and safety Cateura (Agenzia Fides) - In Paraguay, in 2013, over 416 thousand boys, girls and adolescents were employed and engaged in very risky jobs. This is what is reported to Fides Agency by the "Encuesta Nacional de actividade ...