America

• 22 February 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Education in the faith in schools: commitment of teachers Rosario (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Rosario, Archbishop José Luis Mollaghan, has urged the local community of teachers and educators to give special attention "to education in the faith in schools in the archd ...
• 20 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO -1,800 children’s letters say “thank you” to the Pope Hermosillo (Agenzia Fides) – Some 1.800 letters to say ‘thank you’ to Pope Benedict XVI and ask him to pray for the children of the world were written by young participants at the First Regional Congress of Missi ...
• 20 February 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Fighting trafficking of women with international emergency telephone help lines Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Increasing numbers of Brazilian women are victims of prostitution exploitation, with the complicity of sex tourism which reaches its peak during the Carnival season. During this period with ...
• 19 February 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Another Catholic priest killed in Latin America Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides)- Another Catholic priest has been killed in a Latin American country. Fr. José Ramón Mendoza, age 44, was shot dead in the evening of Sunday 17 February in the Venezuelan state of Lara (abo ...
• 15 February 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Protagonists of a strategic development: young people in the Fraternity Campaign 2013 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We are 25% of Brazil's population, about 50 million people, immersed in a digital world, lacking public policies that see young people not only as a problem or a transition group, but as prota ...
• 15 February 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A parish in the heart of the Amazon for the Redemptorist missionaries Acre (Agenzia Fides) - For a community of Redemptorist missionary priests the parish of São Jose was given, in Rodrigues Alves in the State of Acre, Brazil, the State to the west of the Northwest of Brazil, in the middl ...
• 14 February 2013
  AMERICA - The radio as a tool for evangelization Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Communication of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) celebrated with UNESCO and the entire world the Day of the Radio. A note sent to Fides Agency presents the initiat ...
• 14 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue for peace between the government and FARC, the Church will not go to Cuba Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, announced that the Catholic Church is not going to Havana, capital of Cuba, in response to the invitation to the Colombian Bishops from t ...
• 13 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missionary Congress of the PMS in Mexico followed around the world via the Internet Tepatitlán of Morelos (Agenzia Fides) - The eighth edition of the Diocesan Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (VIII Codiam) under the slogan: "Teens and missionary children, with joy we share our faith" wa ...
• 13 February 2013
  AMERICA/CUBA - Pioneers of the economy in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba (Agenzia Fides) – On March 5, 2013 the "Course for small business entrepreneurs" starts in the parish of "St. Therese of the Child Jesus" of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, promoted and directed b ...
• 12 February 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - After 438 years the parish of Carmel comes back to life Yojoa (Agenzia Fides) - There was a big crowd on Sunday, February 10 in Yojoa in the Department of Cortés, Honduras, to see up close the old adobe floor of one of the most ancient temples in Honduras, built in the late ...
• 12 February 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For almost a year, the Church cannot enter prisons Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral of Prisons denounced that the country's political ideology takes priority over religious assistance. In the tragic events that happened in the detention center of Uribana on January ...
• 4 February 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Prison is a rehabilitation center, not a warehouse of people sentenced to death," said Cardinal Urosa Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, called on Venezuelans not to get used to the idea that the country's prisons are warehouses of people destined to die. "On the contrary, t ...
• 4 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 2 priests murdered in less than 15 days Ocoña (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest killed in Colombia. Fr. Luis Alfredo Suárez Salazar belonged to the Archdiocese of Villavicencio in the Department of Meta and was spending his holidays in his hometown, Ocaña, i ...
• 1 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - With kidnappings and violence the FARC put negotiations at risk Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Two police officers kidnapped and clashes with government forces in the city of Policarpa in southern Colombia, with a toll of four soldiers killed: the end of the "ceasefire" proclaimed in Novem ...