America

• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Literacy plan to eradicate poverty Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The National Plan for Literacy "Quisqueya Aprende Contigo" has just begun, launched in the Dominican Republic by the local government as one of the strategies to eradicate poverty. The g ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time the "Sowers of Stars" march in the streets of the Peruvian capital Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Several hundred children of AMI (Childhood and Missionary Childhood) gathered in the center of Lima for a day of formation in order to become "Sowers of stars." On Sunday, January 6, they therefo ...
• 7 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - The local Catholic community’s appeal, "Stop to violence in our Araucanía!" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "We see with sorrow the suffering of so many families, so we insist: stop to violence in our Araucanía! As mentioned before, violence begets violence. Justice, dialogue and peace must reign! As ...
• 7 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cold and rain proliferate infections and cause the death of children in Chiapas Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Agenzia Fides) - In the remote Emiliano Zapata community, in the municipality of Yajalón, in Chiapas, Mexico, five children under one have died due to acute respiratory infections, and 41 others have ...
• 7 January 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week: to raise awareness on the 11 million undocumented persons Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the United States (USCCB) today begins National Migration Week with a campaign that calls for comprehensive immigration reform in order to be able to legal ...
• 29 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Missionary Argentina, share your faith": the preparation of COMINA 4 begins Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies of Argentina issued the official convocation of the Fourth National Missionary Congress (COMINA 4), to be held from August 17 to 19 2013 in San Fernando del ...
• 29 December 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Missionary Disciples in the web 2.0": the archdiocese of Santiago launches new website Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The new website of our archdiocese has everything you need to be a means of communication of our time," says the statement sent by the Episcopal Conference of Chile to Fides Agency for the ope ...
• 28 December 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Year of Faith, "a challenge to promote social cohesion": Cardinal Urosa Savino’s message Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, published his New Year message addressed to all Venezuelans calling for citizens to promote social cohesion and the to authorities to incr ...
• 21 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Over 16 thousand people live on the streets of Buenos Aires without access to health services Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - More than 16 000 people live on the streets of Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city of Argentina, with its 2,891,082 inhabitants, who have no access to basic health services. This was ...
• 19 December 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Priest murdered during a robbery Novo Hamburgo (Agenzia Fides) - A Brazilian priest Fr. Eduardo Teixeira (35) was murdered on the evening of Sunday, December 16, in the village Novo Hamburgo (state of Rio Grande do Sul), during a robbery. According to a ...
• 19 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Cordial meeting between the Bishops and President Kirchner Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting between the Executive Committee of the local Episcopal Conference and the President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took place in an atmosphere of harmony and since ...
• 18 December 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Let us welcome social justice, truth and peace": the invitation of Archbishop Chávez Botello Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - One of the Christmas traditions in Mexico which has an important role is constituted by the so-called "posadas", which in the days of the Christmas novena, from December 16 to 24, brings to life ...
• 18 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Priest threatened with death returns to the capital to continue to fight against drugs Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The priest José María "Pepe" Di Paola, who long ago left the neighborhood Barracas of the Argentine capital, because threatened by drug traffickers, will return to Buenos Aires to continu ...
• 17 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A delegation of Bishops meets the President to express the Church’s concern and for the Christmas wishes Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Bishops from Argentina, led by His Exc. Mgr. José María Arancedo, President of the Episcopal Conference, will visit the President of the Republic, Cristina Fernandez, a fe ...
• 17 December 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The phenomenon of child labor spreads: in the streets, factories, fields Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor continues to spread through the streets of Quito despite the will to eradicate it in the country. In the capital of Ecuador one see youngsellers of all kinds of merch ...