America

• 12 October 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Despite the difficulties that can arise we must support the peace process": Bishops' appeal to prayer Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the start of the second phase of the negotiation process for peace (see Fides 05/10/2012), the Catholic Church in Colombia calls the faithful and all people of good will to pray ...
• 12 October 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - There is always a high number of children who lose their basic right because not registered Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of minors in the Republic of Santo Domingo do not have access to the study and other basic services simply because they are not registered in the census, because either immigrant ...
• 11 October 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A nun collects abandoned disabled children from landfills and adopts them Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Spanish organization Mensajeros de la paz, a project to build two new shelters was presented, one for children with severe disa ...
• 11 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Celebrating democracy means rejecting all forms of violence": the Bishops for the 30years of democracy La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Commemorating 30 years of uninterrupted democratic life in Bolivia, the Episcopal Conference issued a statement entitled "Bolivia, 30 years of democracy, justice and respect for all", a copy of w ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Human trafficking: 8 out of 10 victims are minors, a crime to fight Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The Observatory on Crime of the Public Prosecutor reported that in Peru there were 1.112 reported cases of human trafficking from January 2008 to July 2012, and thus is considered as the second mos ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "People have great human qualities, despite the conflicts and extreme poverty" testimony of the Auxiliary of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of priests and the lack of economic self-sufficiency are the realities that characterize the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni, in Bolivia. "I have been here for seven years, first as a p ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victims and wounded in clashes between police and the indigenous Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHAR) has launched a warning for the murder of six indigenous people in Guatemala, following the clashes between the communities o ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country needs to change, do not choose the corrupt" urges Cardinal Maradiaga Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has invited Hondurans to vote the citizens who have the necessary skills to run the government in the coming elections,. ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of recovery while the population is still in crisis: schools reopened Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have gone by since the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed 90% of schools and 60% of hospitals, killing thousands of people, leaving more than 350 000 injured and causing more ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Avoid violence and resort to dialogue": Mgr. Gualberti intervenes in the miners’ conflict Colquiri (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad when reading the newspaper this morning that some of our brothers in Colquiri, who live in the same city and who are also relatives of the miners, clashed on Saturday, October 6, causi ...
• 8 October 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Chávez re-elected President, the Church invites him to the feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Hugo Chávez Frías, with 54.42% of the vote (according to the local press) won the presidential election, whereas Henrique Capriles, managed to obtain 44.97%. Hugo Chávez was re-elected presid ...
• 8 October 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Haiti thanks Caritas Mexico, which has never stopped bringing aid since the 2010 earthquake Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Pierre Dumas, Bishop of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoane, as President of Caritas Haiti, said: "We would like to thank the Mexican Episcopal Conference, that after the earthquake ...
• 5 October 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 10 days after the beginning of dialogue between the government and FARC: the Church has always worked for peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tunja, former President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga said that the Catholic hierarchy will contribute all that is needed to ...
• 5 October 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Taxi strike blocks the capital, Archbishop appeals for calm and dialogue Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Managua (Nicaragua) informs that the ecclesiastical authority, after meeting with the leaders of the union of taxi drivers in the capital who had sought the intervention of th ...
• 4 October 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - UN Report: 400,000 earthquake victims still in tents Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 400,000 earthquake victims in Haiti in January 2010 are still living in tents, which have increasingly deteriorated due to lack of resources: the alarm is from a recent United Nati ...