America

• 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 ...
• 29 May 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace talks: First agreement on equitable distribution of land Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The Colombian bishops believe that the land issue is central to building true peace. Indeed, the Church's social doctrine stresses the need for an equitable distribution of land and policies tha ...
• 23 May 2013
  AMERICA - "A Continental Mission in solidarity with those who suffer", CELAM follows Pope Francis City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Latin America, willing and committed to bringing the fruits of life among our peoples, welcomes the evangelical orientation of Pope Francis’ programmatic proposal for the whole Chu ...
• 23 May 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - A contribution to better understand the migratory situation Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Office for the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, in collaboration with the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), published a report, which provi ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 4 out of 10 children are extremely poor and deprived of basic necessities Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - About 4.8 million children in Argentina belong to families who do not have sufficient income to buy basic goods needed every day. Of these, about 800,000 come from extremely poor families w ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The phenomenon of child labor increases in Yucatan Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Every year child labor in the Mexican state of Yucatan increases. In the streets of Merida, Progreso, Umán Kanasin there are children who beg, wash windows, sell sweets, chewing gum, chocolate.. ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Repression against indigenous peoples has become a systematic practice", denounces the CIMI Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), issued a statement on May 20 in which it denounced the "illegal and authoritarian" manner with which the missionaries and staff of CIMI were treated ...
• 21 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 18,000 street children exploited and at risk of physical, psychological and sexual violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of street children in Mexico is particularly severe and complicated to solve. In fact, despite local institutions try to propose help both to young children and their families ...