America

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  7 October 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missing priest found dead: murder investigation underway Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The body of Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, the priest reported missing on Saturday, October 4, in Cocula, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, has been found. The body of the priest, wh ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The new school year begins at the parish school in Pourcine-Pic-Macaya Pourcine Pic-Macaya (Agenzia Fides) – "Without quality education, there is no future for Haiti and for our small but resilient mountain community," said missionary Father Massimo Miraglio of the Order of the Ministers ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the Barrio San Bernardo in Bogotà there is a new beginning among the "broken people" by Monica Poletto Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – In the south of Bogotá, in a former middle-class neighborhood, lies the "Barrio San Bernardo," where the parish of "Nuestra Señora de los Dolores" is located. The young ...
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  30 September 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Ecumenical and interreligious celebration: "Forgive us our trespasses, grant us your peace" Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) – Prayers for peoples suffering from violence, exclusion, and war, along with a shared commitment to be peacemakers in the city and around the world: this marked the annual meeting of reli ...
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  29 September 2025
  AMERICA/USA - A former Marine attacks Mormon temple in Michigan, killing four people Washington (Agenzia Fides) – At least four people were killed and eight others were injured in the attack carried out yesterday, Sunday, September 28, by a gunman at a Mormon temple in Michigan. The attacker rammed a ...
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  27 September 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Holy House of Spiritual Exercises "Mama Antula": opening of Missionary October and sending of the Saint's relics Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Today, September 27, the opening Mass of Missionary October will be celebrated, during which the sending of the relics of Saint Mama Antula, patroness of the missions in Argentina and the ...
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  26 September 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Red Clamor campaign: Recognizing the dignity of those forced to leave their homelands Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – "Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating" are the four verbs at the heart of the work of "Red Clamor," the Latin American and Caribbean Ecclesial Network for Migration, Displacement, R ...
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  25 September 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Sister Maria Troncatti: "a true saint of the people" Macas (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the canonization of Sister Maria Troncatti of the Sisters of Salesian Order, missionary of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), who will be canonized by Pope Leo X ...
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  22 September 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Hope is the anchor of the soul”: young people celebrate the beauty of life and nature Calamar (Agenzia Fides) – Hope, peace, and reconciliation were the central themes of the meeting held on the occasion of the Jubilee of Youth in one of the most multiethnic and cultural municipalities in Colombia: Cala ...
• 19 September 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 25, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), confi ...
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  18 September 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Posadas recognizes the pastoral importance of Radio Tupambaé Posadas (Agenzia Fides) – "Proclaiming the Gospel involves certain efforts, and our station has also had its difficult moments. Nevertheless, we have moved forward with hope, and today we are here," said Bishop Juan Ru ...
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  17 September 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - TIMKATEC: Hope for vulnerable young people, a Salesian initiative to combat juvenile delinquency Pétion-Ville (Agenzia Fides) - From IT to construction, from plumbing to electricity, from tiling to Windows platforms, from cooking to cutting and sewing and cosmetology: 94 young Haitians received their certificates i ...
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  3 September 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The will to resist, to continue living even in the most difficult situations
  Pourcine-Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – "I spent three days visiting the Chapel of St. Bernard on the occasion of the patron saint's day. A difficult and tiring journey, which, on ...
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  1 September 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Lay missionary kidnapped during armed attack on orphanage released after a month Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – After nearly a month of captivity, the Irish lay missionary Gena Heraty, who has been working in Haiti for thirty years, was freed along with the other hostages captured during the atta ...
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  22 August 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "I must be a missionary": Sister Maria Troncatti will be proclaimed a Saint during World Mission Sunday 2025 Quito (Agenzia Fides) – "I must be a missionary" is the promise that characterized the entire work of Italian nun Maria Troncatti, a missionary of the Salesian Sisters, who will be proclaimed a Saint by Pope Leo XIV on ...