America

• 9 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - "Your smile is the best gift for your mother": thousands of children born with cleft lip San Bartolomé (Agenzia Fides) - Every year thousands of children in Peru are born with a cleft lip and cleft palate. Also this year, the hospital of San Bartolome of the Ministry of Health has launched a free campaign c ...
• 8 May 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Deaths decrease but violence increases in the countryside: the PLC report Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - The number of deaths due to conflicts in the Brazilian countryside fell from 34 in 2010 to 29 in 2011, but rural violence has increased, according to a report published by the Pastoral La ...
• 8 May 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The rains do not stop, the toll: 46 deaths and 113 000 homeless Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - 46 deaths is the toll due to the rains affecting Colombia, where there are 113,602 homeless, according to the report of the National Unit for the Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD). From the data c ...
• 7 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - San Martin de Porres: 50 years after the canonization of the patron of social justice Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the canonization of St. Martin de Porres, the Dominicans (OP), Order to which he belonged, have prepared a special program to celebrate this event with in ...
• 7 May 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "To live as disciples in a multicultural world": the Honduran Church toward the CAM 4 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Honduran Church is preparing to live intensely a year of preparation for the CAM 4 (Fourth American Missionary Congress). CAM's dream is to give life to a church where all can live as m ...
• 7 May 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Everyone is involved to come out of violence, the Church encourages institutions to dialogue San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, approved the establishment of dialogue of the President, Mauricio Funes with different sectors of the country, in order ...
• 4 May 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Ten years ago, the FARC killed 78 faithful in Bojayá, including 48 children, who took refuge in church Bojayá (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years ago the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) murdered 78 members of the parish of Bojayá, including 48 children, who had taken refuge in the church of St. Paul the Apostle in ...
• 4 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Six months of heavy rain has caused 53 victims and 260 000 homeless Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Since November last year, when the rains began to fall, until recent days, considering the 25 regions across the country, the total affected by natural disasters is very high: 53 deaths and more th ...
• 3 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Copiapo in the celebration of May 1, calls for "a decent wage and respect for the environment" Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) - During the celebration of Labor Day weekend, on May 1, the Bishop of Copiapo called for a revision of the minimum wages and a solution to the problems of the population of Freirina, about 500 km ...
• 3 May 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the priest seriously stabbed last week is still in critical condition, violence increases in the area Culiacan (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Culiacan Mexico, His Exc. Mgr. Jonás Guerrero Corona, has again deplored in an interview with journalists, the fatal attack suffered by Mgr. Simon Garcia Casas, p ...
• 2 May 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Funeral and burial in Brazil for the Italian missionary Fidei Donum found dead Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian Fidei Donum missionary found dead last Sunday, Father Luigi Plebani (see Fides 05/30/2012) will be buried in Brazil, according to his desire. Yet there is currently not an official re ...
• 2 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - The "constitutional recognition of the Mapuche people," asked by the Bishop of Temuco to stop violence Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - " What is happening in La Araucania is very serious," the central southern area of Chile, where the percentage of the Mapuche population is very high: the complaint comes from the Bishop of Temuc ...
• 2 May 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Questions about the "counter coup" in Bamako Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, one does not hear gunfire, people are going to work," says to Fides Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, from Bamako, where on April 30 a mi ...
• 2 May 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The drama of violence and child labor, within and outside the family Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - 80% of children in the state of Jalisco undergo all types of family violence, from screams to verbal abuse, from insults to cruel physical violence. 11% of children working on the streets ar ...
• 30 April 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Aid for the population of El Chaco, who continues to be adversely affected by floods Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in the western region of El Chaco in Paraguay continues to worsen because of the persistent rains which continue to fall in the area (see Fides 18/04/2012). The floods have affec ...