America

• 3 April 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 1.3 billion people worldwide live on less than $ 1.25 a day Washington (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50% of the population living in extreme poverty are concentrated in China, India and Brazil. According to World Bank data, a total of 1.3 billion people live on less than $ 1.25 a d ...
• 26 March 2013
  AMERICA/REP. SANTO DOMINGO - Hope for the inhabitants of bateye living in extreme poverty San Pedro de Macoris (Agenzia Fides) - Among the sugar cane plantations, 70 kilometers east of Santo Domingo, Haitians and Dominicans survive thanks to humanitarian aid that covers most of the local population. 10% of th ...
• 25 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Romero was not a politician but a true pastor San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Romero was not a political figure, but a true pastor, because he lived preaching the Gospel, therefore it is not fair to make him a character linked to the political-party system," sa ...
• 25 March 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Gestures that are potentially prophetic" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) -The Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz and President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mgr. José Maria Arancedo, said that the arrival of Pope Francis at the Chair of Peter, is an ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Immigration reform, perhaps even the support of the Pope Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The archbishop of Los Angeles, Mgr. Jose Gomez, has provided details of the meeting that a delegation of 15 U.S. religious leaders recently had with President Barack Obama on the reform of i ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Thousands for the March for Life, rather than a law, the testimony of the population Lima (Agenzia Fides) -The Episcopal Conference of Peru invites the Archdiocese of Lima and all the faithful to participate in the "March for Life" 2013, which will be held today Saturday, March 23, as a public and peacef ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Truce of God for Holy Week, a call for peace with small gestures Cali (Agenzia Fides) - The archbishop of Cali, Monsignor Dario Monsalve Mejía, urged the armed groups to engage in a"truce of God" during Holy Week, to show a "sign of hope for peace." In a statement, sent to Fides, Mg ...
• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "March for Peace", a traditional Via Crucis to stop the violence in the country Comayagua (Agenzia Fides) – On 22 March the "Caminata por la Paz" (Peace March) will start from the parish of St. Gaspar Taulabé (Comayagua), the procession of thousands of faithful who come from all over Honduras. " ...
• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We are coming to get your head": threats to the priest who accepts migrants Tenosique (Agenzia Fides) - "We are coming to get your head", with these words on behalf of strangers over the phone and then reported by a terrified immigrant used as an emissary, is how father Fray Tomás González was ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Monsignor Romero, 33 years after his death the cause of beatification advances San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The week to commemorate the 33 years of the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero continues. He was assassinated on March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass in the cha ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty in the country is three times higher than that of Chile and Uruguay Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report released by the research center Idesa Argentina, in Peru, poverty has been reduced from 49% to 28% of the population, in Chile from 21% to 11%, in Uruguay from 9 % to 8%. I ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/CUBA - Good Friday: granted non-working day Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - For the second consecutive year, a government decree gives Cubans a festive day in Holy Week after decades due to tensions with the Catholic Church, the Havana government had canceled religious ...
• 18 March 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A Day dedicated to Girls and Indigenous Children Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 18, Girls and Indigenous Children Day of Venezuela is celebrated. This annual event is dedicated to the 41 indigenous communities in the Latin American country as a sign of recogn ...
• 18 March 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Why are we not able to live in peace?" Asks the Archbishop of Medellin Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of a violent weekend in which 31 people were killed, the Archbishop of Medellin, His Exc. Mgr. Ricardo Antonio Tobon Restrepo, expressed his concern regarding the violence that plagu ...
• 18 March 2013
  AMERICA - From CELAM to Pope Francis: "Let us always remember the call to mission. Bishop and people" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We lived through the experience of his choice in an atmosphere of episcopal collegiality. This fact filled us with a deep joy for what it represents for the universal Church, and especially for ...