America

• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "It is not enough to add years to life, but it is necessary to give life to years" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In a long homily during the Mass on the first day of the new year, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, highlighted that Honduras has its sense of direction, ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - Bishops make the program known about the Pope's visit to Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mexican Episcopal Conference (see Fides 02/01/2012), the Cuban Episcopal Conference announced the program of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in Cuba The text of the statement, of which a co ...
• 2 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than one million child workers in the country Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest figures of the population census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), over a million children aged between 10 and 14 continue to wor ...
• 2 January 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appeal for peace in Caracas, where there were 623 violent deaths in December Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, celebrated Mass in the Cathedral of Caracas on January 1, launching an appeal for peace. In his message addressed to the Venezuelans, he asked ...
• 2 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Episcopal Conference has announced the program of the Pope's visit Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "On December 12, 2011, His Holiness Benedict XVI announced his intention to undertake an apostolic journey, before Easter, in Mexico and Cuba. After the consultations with the Government of ...
• 29 December 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - 2012 in Huancayo will be the "Year of Reconciliation, for the new evangelization" Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Huancayo, His Exc. Mgr. Pedro Barreto Jimeno, Bishop, SJ., has called for 2012 the "Year of Reconciliation, for the new evangelization." The announcement was made during the ...
• 28 December 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Youth Missionaris of Brazil looks to the future Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the fourth National Assembly of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and Youth Missions (JM), held at the headquarters of the National Directorate of the Pontif ...
• 28 December 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops recall poverty and exclusion in which many live Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Christmas celebrations, the Bishops of Argentina wished to express their concern about the plight of the poor and excluded, and stressed that life must be protected b ...
• 23 December 2011
  AMERICA - 5 centuries ago friar Antonio Montesino's sermon in defense of the rights of Indians Urubamba (Agenzia Fides) - 500 years have passed since the Advent of 1511, when the Spanish Dominican missionary friar Antonio Montesino, gave his historic speech in defense of the rights of the Indians, on the island Es ...
• 23 December 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - New Catholic radio station in Chile, the only one in the region of Arica and Parinacota Arica (Agenzia Fides) - "Radio Mount Caramel" is the new and only Catholic radio station in Arica and Parinacota, to 93.1 FM, which aims to reach everyone, believers and non-believers, with a rich program where to find d ...
• 22 December 2011
  AMERICA/HONDURAS- The missionary work of a Bishop of Panama in Honduras has been awarded by the Government Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Honduras has officially paid tribute to the auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula (in the north of Honduras), His Exc. Mgr. Romolo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F., for his concrete ...
• 22 December 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Diocese of Ibarra celebrates 150 years of its foundation: Christmas opens the Jubilee Year Ibarra (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ibarra, Ecuador, celebrates its 150 years. The Bishop of Ibarra, His Exc. Mgr. Valter Maggi has called for this reason a Jubilee Year, which will be opened with a Eucharistic celeb ...
• 21 December 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Chamber has approved an amendment that allows the public celebration of religious events without prior permission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has just approved, with the votes of the National Action Party, President Felipe Calderon and the PRI's (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) proposal: we a ...
• 20 December 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Redemptorists celebrate 10 years of their return to Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Redemptorist Missionaries celebrated in 2011, the tenth anniversary of their return to Cuba from Spain, they had in fact already worked in Cuba from 1927 to 1976, and then had to leave the is ...
• 20 December 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The "unfair and unjust" law on immigration needs to be revised: letter from religious leaders to the governor of Alabama Alabama (Agenzia Fides) - Some Christian community leaders in the state of Alabama (Roman Catholic Church, United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church), wrote a letter to Governor Robert Bentley to pray so that they ...