America

• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 14 million poor people across the Country Cali (Agenzia Fides) – About 32.2% of the total population of the Country lives in conditions of extreme poverty. From the data collected from July 2012 to June 2013 by the National Administrative Department of Statist ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Over two thousand children are HIV-positive Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - In Guatemala there are over 2371 children and adolescents who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, only 800 of these receive adequate care. As there is no reliable data on the number of infect ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the indigenous population are a "living part" of the country and the Church Naupan (Agenzia Fides) - Almost protected by the hills of Metztepetl, Tonallan and Citlalan (the moon, the sun and the stars), in the Cathedral of Napuan dedicated to St. Mark (in Nahuatl language "El Tecuán", that is, ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Millions of Americans struggle to live": Bishops urgent request to the government Washington (Agenzia Fides ) - The Bishops, Presidents of three Commissions of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have urged Congress to urgently fulfill its fundamental role of government and to res ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Children and women exploited in sweatshops in the Amazon Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The military Forces of the Police and the Navy have found 28 drug factories in the area known as the Amazonian Trapezium, the part of Colombian territory that forms a trapezoidal corridor between t ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Indigenous peoples continue to remain "invisible" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous population of El Salvador continues to suffer from poverty, lack of health care, drinking water, education as well as limited access to land and natural resources in the Cent ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "You cannot change the country only with laws, we must first change ourselves": Mgr. Baez on the amendments to the Law 779 Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - Violence against women will disappear from our country only when real values among young people and families are spread: this was emphasized by the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Church offers criteria to elect the next President: a document is being prepared San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Costa Rica is preparing a document to "enlighten the electorate in the political campaign, in the light of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church": this was anno ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Poverty rate remains constant and alarming San José (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty is a phenomenon present in all of Costa Rica, despite the enormous efforts proved fruitless, made in the last 20 years to try to eliminate it. According to a recent report published by ...
• 30 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Today the funeral of the two murdered priests Cali (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Darío de Jesús Monsalve, strongly denounced the violence against the priests, after the murder of the priest and the curate of the parish of San Sebastián ...
• 30 September 2013
  AMERICA - New portal at the service of migrants: an American initiative Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Combining the efforts of various organizations working for and with migrants in order to strengthen the services offered in the evangelizing mission in a space-communion, to give useful informat ...
• 27 September 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The "Igreja Catholic apostolic brasileira" is a schismatic community Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "Igreja Catholic apostolic brasileira", founded by Mr. Carlos Duarte Costa, who died in 1961, and was succeeded by Mr. Luis Fernando Castillo Mendes, who died in 2009, is considered a s ...
• 27 September 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Defense of the Constitution, human rights, the environment: national mobilization of the indigenous Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Next week, from September 30 to October 5, there will be protests of indigenous peoples in at least four Brazilian capitals (Brasilia, San Pablo, Belem and Rio Branco) and in other urban center ...
• 26 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Msg. Garfias to Fides: "There are still isolated parishes and a city buried due to landslides" Guerrero (Agenzia Fides) - More than 115 people have died, 60 missing, 40,000 tourists stranded, floods, landslides, hunger, despair, uncertainty, and about 238,000 homeless victims: this is the toll of the Hurricane Man ...
• 25 September 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Two thousand victims rescued from human trafficking, 42% are minors Lima (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand victims (42% of whom are minors) of human trafficking have been rescued by the police since June 2011 to date, according to data released by the General Secretariat of the Mi ...