America

• 14 February 2012
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Family and Youth, support for evangelization in the Bishops' message San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica (CECR) published a message at the end of 103th Ordinary Assembly, a copy of which was sent to Fides. The declaration of the Bishops is divided into 6 part ...
• 14 February 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Education helps to fight poverty, it is the most important resource a person can acquire Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The new school year for one million and 600 thousand students, from kindergarten to higher education has just started in Nicaragua. The high turnout is due to free access to education proposed b ...
• 14 February 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops mediators in favor of justice for everyone Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) has offered to mediate in the discussion that is ongoing between the National Government and the Courts on the draft concerning the constitutional refor ...
• 13 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Rivera praises the opening of Cuba to the right to religious freedom Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Ambassador of Cuba in Mexico, Manuel Aguilera de la Paz, attended Sunday Mass celebrated by the Primate Cardinal of Mexico, Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico, in the Metropol ...
• 13 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The plight of Haitians trying to reach Brazil continues, and another 500 of them abandoned at the border Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador has become the door of South America to Haitian immigrants who want to go to Brazil in search of a better life than living in their country, devastated by the earthquake of 2010, because t ...
• 13 February 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A project in 4 countries to combat child labor through education has been launched New York City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) 152 million children between 5 and 14 years of age are victims of child labor. Most belong to the most marginalized social groups ...
• 10 February 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For Cardinal Urosa Savino every presidential candidate must possess the values of love, justice and freedom Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, said that the Catholic values that every presidential candidate must have are love, justice, freedom, respect for people and for the people in ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Police in Bahia still on strike while crime rages, now the Church mediates Sao Salvador da Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The police continue the strike and the people of Bahia, state in northeastern Brazil, live in anguish. In just six days there have been 87 murders, the result of criminal acts, and ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 25 years later, a blog remembers Mgr. Alejandro Labaka and Sister Ines Arango Aguarico (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, the Capuchin Bishop Mgr. Alejandro Labaka, Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico and Sister Ines Arango, of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family, both missionaries in the Am ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Lacunza intermediary between government and indigenous protesters to avoid other deaths Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Luis Lacunza, OAR, Bishop of the Diocese of David, has succeeded in his mission as mediator between the government and the ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A lay missionary dies to save seven children Quinindé (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, February 5, Pedro Manuel died, aged 43, after saving the lives of seven children who had been dragged off into the sea, in front of a beach near the small town of Quinindé, in Ecua ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 300 participants at the National Missionary Congress Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The third National Missionary Congress for priests, religious and laity has just concluded, which had the theme "Authentic witnesses and heralds of Christ in communion, so that the world may believ ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Truce and change of mindset for Pope's visit Leon (Agenzia Fides) - The demand for a truce made by the Archbishop of Leon to groups of drug traffickers has been accepted. One group, which is assumed to belong to organized crime, has left in plain view 11 blankets i ...
• 7 February 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "The FARC are not a political group, but a gang of terrorists" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the Archbishop of Bogota, Mgr. Ruben Salazar Gomez, at the annual Assembly of the Bishops of the country declared that "the FARC (Revolution ...
• 7 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara commit suicide because of despair, because they have nothing to eat Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Deaths caused by starvation registered among the Tarahumara population, who reside in the current Mexican territory of Chihuahua and other places in the country, where 28 million Mexicans su ...