America

• 12 June 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Second National Ecclesial Assembly: Recognize the signs of the times beside the poor Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "To conduct a national experience of ecclesial communion through the discernment of the signs of the times, in order to be a Church in a state of permanent mission to proclaim the Kingdom and d ...
• 12 June 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The poor cannot wait," meeting of Caritas Latin America and the Caribbean Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The poor cannot wait. The right to adequate and balanced diet is essential. This campaign has its foundation in the need that we all unite with one force to combat the scourge of hunger in the ...
• 11 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The disarmament campaign continues with the help of the Church: More than 5000 weapons recovered Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In the first five months of 2013, the government of the Federal District collected, in 15 of the 16 delegations of the city, 5,522 firearms. It is a fact that confirms the good outcome of th ...
• 10 June 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Let us defend our water": Mgr. Escobar’s appeal San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar, suggested yesterday, in his usual press conference on Sunday, that an appeal should be addressed to international organizations to c ...
• 10 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Filing immigrants is a shame", denounces Fr. Solalinde Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a degrading and embarrassing act for our Central American brothers and sisters who are filed as soon as they cross the southern border of Mexico," is the complaint by Fr Alejandro Sol ...
• 8 June 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - RELAMI: Latin American Network of Missiology Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - A group of theologians, consultants and superiors of the missionary congregations, gathered in São Paulo on May 31 and gave the go-ahead to start off the Latin American Network of Missiologis ...
• 8 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Agreement for the formation of the poorest young people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas of Peru and the Professional service and development training Center (government institution), signed an institutional cooperation Agreement, which lasts two years, aimed at human developme ...
• 7 June 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We talk a lot about poverty, but we spend little time with the poor," Caritas outraged by the President’s words Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "There is much talk of poverty, but we spend little time with the poor," says Mgr. Oscar Ojea Quintana, Bishop of San Isidro and President of Caritas Argentina, responding to journalists wi ...
• 6 June 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops’ warning: Too much violence in Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul (Agenzia Fides) - " Injustice generates more violence!" say the Bishops of the Western Region (Mato Grosso do Sul), in a statement issued on June 5 on the resurgence of the clash of land in the region ...
• 6 June 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - There is a truce between the gangs that have only made a general declaration of repentance San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "The gangs have made a declaration of repentance towards God and towards society, but not among themselves. I cannot understand how and why there is so much hate among them." This was sta ...
• 5 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "One cannot live in fear": the Bishops of Michoacan ask for everyone’s commitment Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of the Mexican state of Michoacan have launched an urgent appeal to the local ruling class in which they express concern "about the situation in which our State lives." In a public s ...
• 4 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Prayers for the truce between Honduran gangs in Mexico Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Xalapa has praised the truce declared by the members of two criminal gangs in Honduras (Mara Salvatrucha and Mara 18) because these gangs are also present in the Mexican dioces ...
• 3 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 2 migrants who had denounced extortion have been killed, the Church asks for protection San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The killing of two Honduran immigrant women on 30 May in Chiapas, in southern Mexico, was a revenge on behalf of a gang dedicated to extortion of undocumented immigrants that ...
• 3 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLORADO - Children hospitalized with respiratory crisis for having ingested marijuana Denver (Agenzia Fides) - The consumption of marijuana is legal in 18 States and in Washington. In Colorado baked food, candies and fizzy drinks containing this so-called light drug, is sold to relieve pain, for example, ...
• 29 May 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Complaint by a religious group for violence against Mapuche children Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - A group of men and women religious and priests engaged in the pastoral work with Mapuche communities, composed of the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern ...