America

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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Great National Mission: the Missionary Cross will travel to all the dioceses San José (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the Great National Mission that the Catholic Church of Costa Rica is carrying out, the enthronement of a Missionary Cross is planned in each of the eight dioceses of the country. Th ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops to the President and parliamentarians: "Assume your responsibility for which you were elected!" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, aware of the reality that Peruvians live in all corners of the country, makes an urgent appeal to their political leaders to assume the current situation with gr ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The cry for help from the Yanomami communities and indigenous reservations Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Faithful to its mystical and prophetic commitment to the cry of the poor and the earth, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking (CEPEETH) expresses it ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops: "The resurrection of Christ opens the horizon for hope: hope for a better life and country" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "After two years of Covid-19 pandemic, Catholics have again celebrated the mysteries of the faith in churches and in the streets. This fills us with joy and deep gratitude to the Lord because ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in Arauca even at Easter: four people killed, including two children Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - "Every death afflicts us. But even more the death and injury of children, our children, who are completely innocent of this crazy wave of violence to which the region has been subjected, especial ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Conflicts over land, water, work: they often do not find space in the media Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual report prepared by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) registered 1,768 conflicts in 2021, 13.92% less than in 2020. These are situations related to land, water and labor rights, whic ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Franciscan religious killed in church after the Easter vigil La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the news of the robbery in the convent of San Francisco in the city of Santa Cruz and the violent murder of Friar Wilberth Daza Rodas OFM, our Church is in mourning and dismayed by the eve ...
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  13 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Artemide Zatti, the first Salesian Brother, consecrated, but not a priest - to be proclaimed a Saint: a message of hope Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 April 2022, during the Audience granted to His Eminence Most Reverend Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same ...
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  12 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Climate events, education, violence: the Bishops of the State of Rio de Janeiro ahead of the elections Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "The State of Rio de Janeiro needs particular attention so that climatic events do not continue to cause disasters and suffering. The promotion of quality public education and the fight a ...
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  11 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Twelve university students, missionaries among the indigenous people of the Vicariate of Caroni San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) - There are 12 young missionaries who from April 9 to 20, will dedicate the Easter period to evangelization among the peoples and indigenous communities of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroni ...
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  9 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Palm Sunday: national solidarity collection "Fraternity and Education" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - As a concrete gesture of the Fraternity Campaign, every year a national solidarity collection takes place throughout Brazil on Palm Sunday: in 2022 on April 10. Bishops, priests, religious, lay ...
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  8 April 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Church-State Relations: putting Christ at the center Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Church organized a Conference on Church-State Relations that was held through digital platforms, in which, among others, Monsignor Fernando Chomali, Archbishop of Concepción, an ...
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  8 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Course for missionaries who will work in Brazil begins again in presence, "current and indispensable for evangelizing action" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Intercultural Training Course (CENFI) organized by the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM), an organization linked to the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has 22 participants, priests, men and ...
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  7 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Help children and young people to know better the message of Christ celebrated during Holy Week Maracay (Agenzia Fides) - Msgr. Enrique Parravano, Bishop of Maracay, promotes the "Mosesan" project, Holy Week Movement, an initiative that aims to help children and adolescents aged 8 to 15 to better understand the mes ...
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  7 April 2022
  AMERICA/CUBA - Vocations, families, synodal journey among the topics addressed by the Bishops in the Plenary Assembly Havana (Agenzia Fides) - From March, 28 to 31, the 159th Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba was held at the Casa de Retiros y Convivencias de El Cobre, which was attended by almost all the Bi ...