America

• 4 July 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Prisons have become overcrowded human warehouses", denounces the church La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "The Prisons of our country are overcrowded human warehouses, more than 200 per cent of what prisons can accommodate," said Father Leonardo Da Silva. The situation of prisons in the country has ...
• 3 July 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - There is a growing gap between rich and poor Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the economic growth in the country, the gap between rich and poor in Honduras continues to increase. This is what emerges in a recent study by the United Nations Program for Deve ...
• 3 July 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 4,350 'tetra pak' desks for school children in Alajuela Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the program "A desk for your school", which promotes environmental awareness with recycling activities in 321 public and private schools, 4,350 students from around the Country have t ...
• 2 July 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - The phenomenon of child labor affects more than 200,000 children Santiago, Chile (Agenzia Fides) - In 2012 over 200,000 children were exploited in work activities at risk in Chile. In some cases children carried out very dangerous jobs, especially considering their young age. Accordin ...
• 2 July 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - New educational center for the prevention of child labor Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - A new headquarters of the Spanish NGO Fundación Telefónica, committed to the prevention of child labor, has just been inaugurated in Montevideo. The educational center, equipped with modern ...
• 28 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Decree on migration is ready, the first of its kind in the country La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - It is expected that on the 8th of August, President Evo Morales will issue a supreme decree on "immigration amnesty" in Bolivia. It would be the first decree which, together with the immigration ...
• 27 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Hopes of finding the priest believed to be dead alive Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - There are still hopes of finding don Néstor Darío Buendía Martínez alive, the priest missing in Colombia and whose death was announced, after a body was found, that was believed to be his. ...
• 27 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – More violence in the TIPNIS, the Church at the side of the indigenous peoples Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - After the clashes which occured last weekend between the 2 groups that control the representation of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS), the Catholic Church a ...
• 26 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest who disappeared days ago found dead Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Father Néstor Darío Buendía Martinez (see Fides 25/06/2013) was found dead in an isolated area of the town of Los Cordobas. Although the priest had never reported of hav ...
• 26 June 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church condemns the assault against the elderly who ask for a pension Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "How can one keep silent with regards to an unjust act against the elderly who are an example for us and for our future," said Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, Mgr. Silvio Baez. T ...
• 25 June 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The university conflict has to be resolved in a positive way " ask the Bishops Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV) has launched an appeal to the government and university field in order to create a space of "real and sincere dialogue" in order to find an immediate s ...
• 25 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - There is still no news of a priest who has been missing for 4 days Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - There is much concern among the faithful for the priest Nestor Dario Buendia, 35, who works in the parish of San Antonio de Padua in the village of Cereté (about 500 km north of Bogota) who ha ...
• 24 June 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A nationalism that creates tension is not part of Caribbean cohabitation Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic weekly "Camino" denounced the existence of groups that are promoting "a worrying nationalism" with the crisis triggered by the prohibition imposed by the authorities of Haiti ...
• 24 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "We need to communicate and understand the protest of farmers," says the Bishop of Tibú Tibu (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Tibú, in Colombia, Mgr. Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos has invoked the path of dialogue to find a solution to the plight in the region of Catatumbo. For days, more than 1,200 resid ...
• 22 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - 30 social projects thanks to the Populorum Progressio Foundation Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - The Populorum Progressio Foundation of the Catholic Church is committed to funding two social projects in the City of Arequipa, Peru, as Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Counc ...