America

• 18 June 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Saltillo: "Do not sell your vote, it is a moral issue" Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - Two weeks before the presidential election, Mgr. Raul Vera Lopez, Bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo, has launched an appeal urging the people not to sell their vote, because the corruption that ...
• 18 June 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Clashes between police and farmers: 17 victims, the Bishops call for an end to violence and to respect laws Curuguaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops of Paraguay express their deep regret at the deaths of police officers and farmers which occured on 15 June, during a procedeure of eviction in Curuguaty, and express their solida ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "The Church before the mega mining projects" forum on an increasingly complex reality Zamora (Agenzia Fides) -The forum "The Church before the mega mining projects", organized by the Social Pastoral in the south of the country, including the jurisdictions of Zamora Chinchipe Azuay, Azogues, Oro and Loja, ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - A project of "Shared Houses" for people living on the streets Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - In Chile, 12,255 people live on the streets, among them 2,003 are adults and 725 children. 77% of them work as street vendors and parking attendants or do the cleaning in factories. Th ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Third Missionary Congress is approaching: The Missio ad Gentes is the primary mission of the Church Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – In less than a month the Third National Missionary Congress of Brazil will begin, the event is strongly felt in the community. The Congress will be held in Palmas (Brazil), from July 12 to 15 ...
• 14 June 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Violence begets violence and it is always an insult to man" Bishop of Barrancabermeja’s appeal Barrancabermeja (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B, Bishop of Barrancabermeja, has launched an appeal to the civil and military authorities, and to the whole community to join eff ...
• 14 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The CIMI denounces murders of indigenous people and invasions for the exploitation of their lands Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), organization of the Catholic Church in Brazil, presented in Brasilia the 2011 data on violence against indigenous peoples (see Fides 06/06/2012). The A ...
• 13 June 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A program to eliminate the scourge of child laborers in coal mines Medellín (Agenzia Fides) - In the region of Sinifaná, rich in coal mines, mining is used in the traditional and illegal way, and children are used as a source of cheap production. In the local culture, tradition consid ...
• 13 June 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Religious Freedom and the New Evangelization on the Bishops’ agenda Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 13, the Assembly of Bishops of the United States of America begins, after a long campaign in the local Churches so that the Bishops can officially express their worries about viol ...
• 13 June 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Rights of children without protection: they work instead of playing, studying and resting La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty, migration, broken families are among the causes which force many children and teenagers to work. In Bolivia, there are 850 thousand boys, girls and teenage workers, accounting for 28% of ...
• 13 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5 elements for sustainable development: Caritas Internationalis for Rio +20 Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - A call for a paradigm shift "toward a new civilization of love for humanity, which concentrates every action in the dignity and well-being of men and women": So says Caritas International ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "We need a new pedagogy for evangelism," says the Archbishop of Concepcion Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - " Dios anda por estos lados, yo lo he visto" is the title of a photo exhibition organized by the Archbishop of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali, which will be presented soon in El ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Minors abandoned: more than one million poor children, deidicate themselves to begging and crime Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The reality of most Paraguayan children is very serious. Out of 2,500,000 children, 1,100,000 are poor. The situation gets more and more serious with the current change of season and cold weath ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bombing of commercials and propaganda posters, but no-one explains the mechanism of voting Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Through the publishing of the weekly "Desde la Fe," of the Archdiocese of Mexico, the Catholic community criticized the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) as it does not explain to the citize ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Seven points of reference for the evangelization of every diocese in the Year of Faith Comayagüela (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Honduras, at the conclusion of the Ordinary Assembly which took place last week, sent to Fides a statement stressing that during this meeting, the situation of t ...