America
27 November 2012
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Malnutrition and lack of health care and hygiene for children who live with their parents in prisons
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Bolivia is one of the few countries where inmates can live in cells with their children. It is an irregular situation which, besides being dangerous for the integrity of children who are subjecte ...
26 November 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Do not resort to violence" asks Mgr. Arizmendi Esquivel after the murder of the son of a rural leader
Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - A group of criminals yesterday, Sunday, November 25, killed the son of a well-known rural leader, in the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, in Chiapas, Mexico.
Some armed men with their faces ...
26 November 2012
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops on the Curuguaty case: "To accelerate the investigation to determine those responsible"
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church calls to accelerate the investigation into the massacre of Curuguaty to determine those responsible of the events that on 15 June (see Fides 18/06/2012) caused the death of ...
24 November 2012
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - March for life: "No" of the population to abortion
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "I love life": gathered round this slogan, the population of Santa Cruz participated in the "March for Life" which was held yesterday, Friday, November 23, organized by more than 300 institut ...
24 November 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Aguascalientes does not accept the U.S.A. Report on security
Aguascalientes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Aguascalientes, His Exc. Mgr. José María de la Torre Martin, has strongly rejected a report by the State Department of the United States, where it is stated ...
23 November 2012
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Worrying storms are beating down on the country
San José (Agenzia Fides) - Floods and landslides have been continuing in Costa Rica since last week. According to the Comisión Nacional de Emergencia (CNE), the Caribbean coastal areas are the most affected. In Matina, ...
23 November 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Street children want to study
Rioverde (Agenzia Fides) - After being integrated into the program "From street to life," the children working at the intersections of major roads in the municipality of Rioverde, dream of finding a good job as soon as p ...
23 November 2012
AMERICA/PERU - The first stone of the new church dedicated to San. Pedro and San. Pablo in Ichu was blessed
Puno (Agenzia Fides) - On November 21 the "first stone" of a new church dedicated to San Pedro and San Pablo in Ichu, a town located 15 km south of the city of Puno (Peru) was blessed. A source of Fides reports that moth ...
22 November 2012
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Challenges to the family in the national reality: a Bishops' letter is being prepared
San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) – On November 21, the annual Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) ended, during which various issues, including the pastoral, political situation and social development of ...
22 November 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Indigenous Peoples: "no longer the object of our love, but the protagonists of their own history"
Luziania (Agenzia Fides) - "The identity of Cimi is the alliance with indigenous peoples, so that they do not lose their identity": said the President of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), the Bishop of the Prelat ...
21 November 2012
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - "It is 500 years old, but it is a young church": recalled the arrival of the first Bishop in the Americas
San Juan, Puerto Rico (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop emeritus of Seville, Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Special Envoy of Pope Benedict XVI presided at a solemn Eucharist on Sunday, November 18, in front of thousands ...
21 November 2012
AMERICA/CUBA - Cardinal Ortega’s Letter for the Year of Faith, "a meditation on this historic moment to promote the encounter of the Cuban people with Jesus"
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "Esta es nuestra Fe" (This is our Faith) is the title of Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino’s pastoral Letter, on the occasion of the Year of Faith. According to the explanatory note of the Confere ...
21 November 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - 66% of the population lives in poverty
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The level of poverty recorded among the population in Honduras by the NSI (National Statistics Institute) is 66.5%. The study, which collects data until May 2012, shows that 66.5% of Hondura ...
20 November 2012
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Support of Bishops for the Reconstruction and 160 pastoral projects in Latin America
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) has allocated $ 4.9 million for various projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The USCCB Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America in ...
20 November 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Unilateral truce announced by the FARC, but dialogue for peace continues
Havana (Agenzia Fides) -Yesterday, Monday, November 19, peace talks between the representatives of the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) restarted in Cuba. The delegation of the F ...
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