America

• 20 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Teachers' strike still continues in the capital Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3 million students in the capital are not attending lessons because teachers are still on strike, which began on March 5. The Bishop of the Diocese of Mar del Plata, His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Elections 2014: the Church asks the newly-elected President for an "attitude of dialogue" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - While the Agencies spread the news of the election of the newly-elected President of El Salvador, candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), Salvador Sanchez Ceren ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "the Church is ready to dialogue with the President" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Newly-elected Cardinal José Leopoldo Brenes Solórzano, Archbishop of Managua, said that the Catholic Church is ready to dialogue with President Daniel Ortega only when he decides to sit down w ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Heavy rains have caused deaths and injuries in the Beni area, the lack of food is worrying Beni (Agenzia Fides) - Many families are still isolated in the Beni area, due to heavy rains. Fides is in contact with some missionaries who, through social networks, are able to inform us on the terrible situation that ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Teachers’ strike must be solved with students in the classroom", asks the Bishop of Mar del Plata Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Mar del Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Marino, has publicly asked "the teachers’ strike to be solved with students in the classroom". The note sent to Fides Ag ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Elections on October 26, the President thanks the Church for the mediation Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After more than a month of tense dialogue, Cardinal Chibly Langlois, who has been invited to serve as a mediator in a national political crisis (see Fides 25/2/2014; 14/3/2014), announced ...
• 15 March 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The complaint of a Bishop: "Corruption strangles bean farmers" Durango (Agenzia Fides) - A bishop defends small bean farmers, the backbone of domestic agriculture, that suffer from abuse by private wholesalers, and because of the corruption of the government bodies responsible for c ...
• 15 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church: stop to the violence in Venezuela Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The complex situation in Venezuela - where, for about a month, the population have carried out demonstrations and clashes with armed groups causing more than 25 deaths (see Fides 11/03/2014) - is ...
• 14 March 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dialogue to conclude the agreement in the country has started again Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Haiti (CEH) announced that on Thursday, March 13 the second phase of the inter-Haitian dialogue to put an end to a long crisis that paralyzes the country start ...
• 14 March 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Laity and religious freedom": the voice of the Church Quito (Agenzia Fides ) - On 13 March the Bishops of Ecuador published a pastoral letter titled: "Laity and religious freedom". The document, sent to Fides Agency, is divided into two sections and expresses the Church's t ...
• 14 March 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - How to respond to the challenges of the American continent Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "To assess the participation of the last American Missionary Congress (CAM 4 - COMLA 9), take into account the conclusions of the 22 forums held during the Congress, reflect and propose cour ...
• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A Catholic Guide for parishes with faithful of different languages and ethnic groups Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the United States (USCCB) has created a guide to assist pastors of culturally diverse parishes. The pastoral aid, published in English and in Spanish, aims ...
• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Full availability of Bishops to dialogue with the government on issues of national interest Managua ( Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua will express in writing to President Daniel Ortega its total willingness to dialogue with the government: this was stated by His Exc. Mgr. René Sócrates ...
• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Christian Churches committed to education, health and rights of 30 000 children Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 30 thousand children, girls and adolescents who benefit from support programs offered by churches, NGOs and other Christian organizations engaged in the Gran Santo Domingo ...
• 11 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - One cannot stop violence with violence Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The use of force is reserved by law to the bodies of State security, they have the sole responsibility to stop the violence caused by some people": This is what we read in the statement sent to ...