America

• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Forming a conscious citizen of the right to peace": month for peace in Sincelejo Sincelejo (Agenzia Fides ) - "If you want peace in Colombia, one must form a conscious citizen to have the right to peace. But it is also necessary that people have the right to protest, without violence, and also has th ...
• 16 September 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Argentinian priest beatified "who smelt of his sheep, a poor person among the poor" Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics attended the beatification of the Argentinian priest, José Brochero on Saturday, September 14, who died of leprosy in 1914. The celebration of the Mass was presided by Ca ...
• 16 September 2013
  AMERICA/CUBA - "Hope does not disappoint", Cuban Bishops' letter asking for political reforms Havana (Agenzia Fides ) - "The hopes of a better future also include new political order", says the Cuban Catholic Bishops' pastoral letter entitled "Hope does not disappoint" ("La esperanza not defraud"), which calls th ...
• 16 September 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Commitment of the parish of Imantag for vulnerable people Santa Ana de Cotacachi (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the parish government of Imantag in the city of Santa Ana de Cotacachi, largest canton of the Province of Imbabura, and of the Ministry for Economic and Soc ...
• 12 September 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana: 60 Years lived with a missionary spirit San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc Mgr. José Dolores Grullon Estrella, Bishop of the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, announced the 60th celebrations for the anniversary of the founding of the diocese, created on Se ...
• 12 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Family beyond borders": the Bishops announce a document on emigrants El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the border dioceses of Mexico, Texas and New Mexico, have published a message addressed to Catholics and all people of good will, at the end of the second year's meeting, held on ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Peace is not born in Cuba, but in Colombians", Mgr. Lozano during the Week of Peace Ocaña ( Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is not born in Cuba, but in the heart of the Colombians", with these words, the bishop of the diocese of Ocaña, Mgr. Jorge Enrique Lozano Zafra, launched the celebration of the Week for ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A serious incident of violence disturbs the celebration of the Week of Peace Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura (Colombia), Monsignor Héctor Epalza Quintero, P.S.S., launched an appeal to respect human life, after the discovery of the dismembered body of a m ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - About six thousand people live in precarious conditions and extreme poverty Pungarabato (Agenzia Fides) - The poverty rate in Pungarabato, one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero in the south-western Mexico, is very high and requires a rapid solution. This is what local authorities state, accor ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Syria: Bishops’ practical suggestions to young people for non-violent protests Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Catholic bishops, who have already spoken out against any military action in Syria, recommend all young people, especially college students, to give life to non-violent protests. "Si ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Reconciliation cannot be imposed": Bishops 40 years after the Pinochet coup Santiago ( Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet, which falls on September 13, the Standing Committee of the Chilean Episcopal Conference, presided over ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Promotion of human development in the Andean communities, in particular for women and children Piura (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are still 774 million illiterate adults. Of these, 493 million are women without access to basic rights, to scientific and technological progress. They live in conditions of iso ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - A common strategy to combat trafficking of Haitians who emigrate to Brazil Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the National Council of immigration in Brazil (CNIB) met last week in Port au Prince, capital of Haiti, with representatives of civil society and the Haitian state to disc ...
• 9 September 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa prays for peace in Venezuela Monsignor Parolin stresses the importance of the laity to solve the country's problems Caracas ( Agenzia Fides) - With a heartfelt appeal for violence to end in Venezuela, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, concluded the celebration he presided in the Basilica of Santa Teresa, on the World ...
• 9 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children march against dengue Ticul ( Agenzia Fides) - The pupils of an elementary school in Cuauhtémoc, one of the 16 delegations of the Mexican Federal District, took part in the demonstration for the prevention of dengue recently promoted in the ...