America

• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Willingness to continue dialogue between the Government and the Church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - While the Bishops of Mexico are in the Vatican for the Ad Limina Apostolorum visit, the Secretary General of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM ) informs Fides of having received, on May ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three years of Martelly’s presidency, among acclaim and requests for resignation Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haitian President Michel Martelly celebrated his third year of the presidential office on May 14 by listing a series of successes in front of hundreds of supporters, while the opposition ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Basic Ecclesial Communities: the new face of the Church at the service of justice and peace El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - From July 10 to 13, the XI National Meeting of the Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC) will be held in the Diocese of El Alto, with the slogan: "To build a new face of the Church from the BEC. For ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - A center to transform cassava into flour and cope with food insecurity Torbeck (Agenzia Fides) - Food insecurity in Haiti is strongly linked to the importation of food. To cope with this phenomenon, which in the Caribbean Country affects more than 600 million people, a cassava processing ce ...
• 15 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 88-year-old Mgr. Lona continues to defend the indigenous population Chimalapas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Tehuantepec (Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Arturo Lona Reyes, has publicly stated that Rosario Robles Berlanga, the Federal responsible of SEDESOL (Secretariat of S ...
• 15 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - First American Congress: "Adolescence and Childhood at the service of the Mission" Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Brazil prepares itself to host the First Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (IAM) Congress. With the theme: "IAM of America at the service of the Mission" and the slogan: "You are my friends ...
• 15 May 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence against children who suffer abuse and harassment continues Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called for the protection of children in Honduras, who are victims of violence and to give priority to the investigation of recent h ...
• 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 ...