America

• 31 August 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - One child out of 10 is compelled to forced work: they are the restavek, invisible and vulnerable victims Port au Prince - With 225,000 working children, mainly girls between 5 and 17 years of age, child labor, a form of modern slavery, is unfortunately a very common practice in Haiti and is continually increasing since the ...
• 30 August 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Next Sunday there will a collection in all the churches for the victims of the explosion at the refinery in Amuay and of natural disasters Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd September, all the churches in Caracas will become centers for food, medicine and equipment to be sent to those who in recent weeks have been the victims of natu ...
• 29 August 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Alert for the risk of a dengue epidemic Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Paraguayan health authorities have warned the country about the risk of a serious outbreak of dengue. According to data reported by the Directorate for Health Control, the majority of case ...
• 29 August 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Decisive support" of the Bishops in the talks of the government with the rebels for a negotiating table of peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Convinced that dialogue is the only way to achieve peace, the Bishops of Colombia have welcomed with joy and hope the proclamation of the President of the Republic about the exploratory talks wi ...
• 28 August 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "The House of the Child" also opens to 15 HIV-positive young children and their families Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to an initiative by a group of Italian and Bolivian volunteers, in 1993 "The House of the Child" was born in Bogota, a reception center that takes care of children with disabilities, HIV a ...
• 28 August 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Alarm for the phenomenon of forced pregnancies of young girls and adolescents Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of Nicaraguan girls who get pregnant at a very young age is becoming increasingly alarming. In the country, one of the poorest in Latin America, home to 5.8 million people, in the ...
• 27 August 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops' pain for the explosion in the refinery in Amuay that caused 41 deaths Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has expressed "deep sorrow" of the entire Episcopate for the tragic events that took place at dawn on Saturday, August 25 in the refinery in ...
• 27 August 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Armed conflict and hunger threaten the extinction of many indigenous groups Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Internal armed conflict and poverty put the majority of the 102 indigenous peoples of Colombia at risk, where Aboriginal people are a little more than 1.37 million, just 3.36% of the national tot ...
• 17 August 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The community of Cucuta remembers its pastor who was killed on August 11 Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow’s Mass at the parish Saint Mary Mother of God in the city of Los Patios in Cucuta (Colombia) will recall its pastor, a diocesan priest Pablo Emilio Sanchez Albarracín, who died trag ...
• 4 August 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "60 days without violent events", the campaign for peace in prisons bears fruit San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - With only a day dedicated to catechesis and presided by Monsignor Romulo Emiliani, Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula, the campaign for peace in prison, organized by the Pastoral Commissi ...
• 3 August 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Regain our dignity", the Church welcomes dialogue but without external pressures San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Negotiations to resolve the institutional crisis in El Salvador where in fact there are two supreme Courts of justice and two Presidents of the judiciary (see Fides 23/07/2012), will resume ...
• 2 August 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Integral, fair and sustainable human development", a request to protect the communities of Comodoro Rivadavia Comodoro Rivadavia (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission of Social and Indigenous Pastoral of the Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia, in Patagonia in southern Argentina, expressed its concern about a mining project recen ...
• 2 August 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Facing the challenges of each particular Church with the spirit of the PMS: the 41st Assembly of the PMS in Peru begins Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The 41st General Assembly of Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru is in progress, held at the Retreat House of St. Joseph of Cluny in Lima on the theme: "Faith without lov ...
• 1 August 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Street violence increases, denunciation of the Catholic Church Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At least 212 people were killed by gunfire in Haiti between April and June due to the escalation of urban violence that has hit the Country recently. This is what is reported in a stateme ...
• 31 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Discrimination against the Mapuche people continues, also victims among children Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous Mapuche peoples of the Chilean region of Araucania, 680 kilometers south of Santiago, continues to suffer acts of racism and repression after being forced to leave their land of ...