America

• 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 ...
• 7 February 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Santa Rosa: "I am here with you because the pastor, Father David Donis is not here anymore, unfortunately he was killed " Cuilapa (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Bernabe de Jesus Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M .Cap., Bishop of St. Rose of Lima, in Guatemala, celebrated Mass in the Church of the Holy Family in memory of the priest, Father David Donis, who ...
• 6 February 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country is wounded to death by violence, poverty, corruption" denounces Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga before the President of Honduras Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, said before the highest authorities of Honduras that the country is bleeding, mortally wounded by violence, increasing p ...
• 6 February 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Members of the Missionary, diocesan and parish Councils at the formation missionary school Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Missionary Council (Comina) is an organization of the Catholic Church in Brazil, which has as main purpose the promotion of the missions of the Church in the country by a qualified ...
• 3 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The facts are to be clarified and violence has to be stopped: appeal on behalf of Mgr. Aguiar Retes after the killing of Father Jenaro Atizapán (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement of the Archbishop of Tlalnepantla, Monsignor Carlos Aguiar Retes, the identity of the priest murdered on January 28, 2012 is clarified and any act of violence is condemned. In f ...
• 2 February 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-Young Dominicans denounce corruption and ask for "a new political culture" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The young Dominicans call the attention of the authorities and leaders on the need to promote the political, cultural, economic and social development of the nation. The occasion was given ...
• 1 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Benedict XVI in the land watered by the blood of the martyrs who died to defend faith Leon (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Mexico, "will tread the land that was wet with the blood of martyrs" who fought to defend their faith in times of persecution. This is what Mgr. Fidel Hernánd ...
• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Street children create a social network to survive Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico City (UNAM), in order for street children of Mexico City to grow and survive, they need to be part of a social networ ...
• 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 ...