America

• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Children and indigenous adolescents are more vulnerable than their peers Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - 8,7% of Chilean children younger than 18 years of age belong to an indigenous group, and this really puts them in a situation of greater vulnerability than their non-indigenous peers. A recent ...
• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Course for new missionaries, to illustrate the reality of the nation and the Church's commitment La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Missions of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference has promoted the organization of a course for new missionaries arriving in the country, to be held from March 12 to 17 at the ...
• 27 January 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Manifesto for the defense of Haitian migrants human rights in Brazil Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The national and international Organizations in support of migration, together with migration research groups from different Brazilian universities follow with concern the reality faced by Haiti ...
• 26 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The Mission of Christians in public politics": formation course of Diocesan Missionary Councils Maranhão (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, January 28 the 20th edition of missionary formation course that brings together representatives of the Diocesan Missionary Councils (COMIDIS) in Bacabal, in Maranhão ends. The ...
• 26 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón elected President of the Episcopal Conference Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The 99th Ordinary Assembly of the Bishops of Peru, elected the Archbishop of Ayacucho and castrensian Bishop of Peru, His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Pineiro Garcia-Calderon, as the new President of the Pe ...
• 26 January 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - More than 300 000 Dominican children forced to work to survive Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 000 children in the Dominican Republic are forced to work as adults to survive and to be able tonourish themselves. In a recent meeting, the representative of the local Mini ...
• 25 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Haitian trafficking, the earthquake survivors, towards Brazil: 254 stops at the border with Peru Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - They are victims of human traffickers who are speculating on the earthquake that struck Haiti two years ago: As Fides learns from the local Church, 254 Haitian immigrants, survivors of the ...
• 24 January 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Assembly of the family pastoral: preparing for the World Family Meeting Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Venezuela has sent an informative note to Fides on the National Assembly of Responsibles and diocesan Directors of the Family Pastoral, held from January 20 to 22 at ...
• 24 January 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The II Symposium of preparation for the CAM4 has started: multiculturalism, the challenge to mission Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - Under the slogan "multi-cultural present and future, the challenge for the mission", the work of the Second International Symposium on Missiology opened today, January 23 whose main goal is ...
• 23 January 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-"To become a fraternal and fair Nation" Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez at the feast of the Virgin of Altagracia Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, has asked the Dominican people to join efforts and determination to overcome the situation of violence and moral ...
• 23 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Gunmen burst into a chapel and shoot against the faithful: 7 people died, 5 were injured Corral Falso (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday night, January 21, a group of armed men burst into a chapel in the community of Corral Falso, in the municipality of Atoyac de Alvarez, and opened fire on the faithful who had ...
• 21 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Plenary Assembly of the Bishops of Peru, will have a new president Lima (Agenzia Fides) -With a Mass concelebrated by all the Bishops of Peru, on January 23 the 99th Plenary Assembly of Peruvian Bishops will begin. The event, which ends on January 27, will be held at the headquarters of ...
• 21 January 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-The week dedicated to Peace ends today San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "The Assembly for Peace," the week dedicated to the "World Day of Peace" of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, (14-21 January) ends today. The purpose is to spread the Message for World Day o ...
• 20 January 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Educating for justice, peace, social and political commitment": three days of formation for young people Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - With the theme "education for justice, peace, social and political commitment", the Social Pastoral Commission of the Archdiocese of Concepcion together with the Catholic University of the Ho ...
• 20 January 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bill to establish the "Council of Religious Freedom and Equity": for the Church it interferes in internal decisions Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Ecuador criticized the draft law on religious freedom and religious equality, which suggests among other things, the creation of a "Council of Religious Freedom and Equity", ...