America

• 27 February 2013
  AMERICA - It is urgent to eradicate the phenomenon of children employed in domestic work Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Ten major international organizations urge the ministers of labor throughout the world to protect children working in domestic service and to ratify the Convention of the International Labour ...
• 26 February 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Year of Faith: a pastoral Letter denouncing violence Escuintla (Agenzia Fides) - It is time to "move from sin to life" with this invitation the Pastoral Letter of the Diocese of Escuintla begins, on the occasion of Lent in the Year of Faith 2013. In the text sent by the Ep ...
• 26 February 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Community of Santiago greets the first missionary of St. Colombano in Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – He was a missionary who gave a valuable contribution to the whole Church of Santiago: Fr. Hugo Mc Gonagle, an Irish priest and missionary of St. Colombano, who died last February 18 at the ag ...
• 25 February 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Appeal for electoral campaign without violence and with transparency San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – As the time approaches for the start of the electoral campaign for 2014 presidential elections, Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador, says the local Catholic Chu ...
• 25 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We must all support efforts to continue the dialogue for peace” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – “We must all support and defend efforts to promote peace” the national director of Social Pastoral of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia , Mgr. Héctor Fabio Henao, told the pr ...
• 23 February 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Social inclusion and “unity in diversity”: a challenge for the Church Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – Building a society where no one is excluded, no one is marginalised, where diverse social and religious components work together for the common good, is a challenge for the Church: this is ...
• 23 February 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity and sobriety: the solution to the crisis Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – The solution to the economic crisis is greater solidarity and greater sobriety of life style: this was said by the Catholic Archbishop of Huancayo, Archbishop Mons. Pedro Barreto Jimeno SJ, ...
• 22 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Say NO to the dirty money of drug traffickers": Bishop Sandoval urges his diocese Guachochi (Agenzia Fides) – The government is absent and in its place bands of drug traffickers keep capillary control of the territory: in this situation Bishop Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, Bishop of Tarahumara diocese, ...
• 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 ...