America

• 4 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church is expecting greater state investment in health and education San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in El Salvador considers education fundamental for the development of a country and, after the draft budget for 2012 recently presented by the Ministry of Finance, showe ...
• 4 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Scalabrinians: verification of the activities undertaken in the last ten years, and new goals Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – As from today until October 7th, the Congress of the Scalabrini Missionaries which gathers together members working in different specific areas, according to the charism of the institute, ...
• 3 October 2011
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "In Honduras, every day you can count deaths due to violence," Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga’s complaint Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Honduras, using the words expressed by Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has invited society to respect the lives of others, especi ...
• 3 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The 85th Mission Day in Argentina declared "National Day of Interest" AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The 85th Mission Day in Argentina declared "National Day of Interest" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "The Secretary general of the Presidency of the nation declares the 85th World Mission day an even ...
• 29 September 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops ask to actively participate in the referendum on October 9 Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay invite all Catholics and citizens in general, to participate with their vote in the referendum scheduled for Sunday, October 9. The Superior Court of the Electoral Just ...
• 28 September 2011
  AMERICA - The new President of LAMEC in Rome to meet the Pope and the Vatican dicasteries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From October 6 to 12 the members of the Presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (LAMEC) led by their president, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), wi ...
• 28 September 2011
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Building Justice, reconciliation and peace in Uruguay Montevideo (Agenzia Fides ) - The Second National Assembly of the Prison Pastoral Care was held in Montevideo, which was attended by more than 30 pastoral operators from Rivera, Melo, Mercedes, Montevideo, Salto, Maldona ...
• 27 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The participants dispersed by the police in the march for ITNPIS; for the Bishops “violence denies the dignity of persons” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Church is deeply saddened because of the violence exercised by the police against the participants in the march in defense of the indigenous territory National Park Isiboro Secure, I ...
• 27 September 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Pontifical Mission Societies: 75 years of missionary work in Salta Salta (Agenzia Fides) - This coming Saturday, October 1, the Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the beginning of the Missionary month, in the Basilica Cathedral of Salta dedicated to the Virgin of the Miracle a ...
• 27 September 2011
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Half a century of solidarity: a research for Caritas to celebrate its 50 years Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - In 2012, Caritas Uruguay celebrates 50 years of its foundation in the country and wants to remember the event carrying out a project of social research, ie collecting the history of the count ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Lay Scalabrinian killed "for her work in the media" Nuevo Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of Scalabrinian Lay Movement (SLM) is mourning over the terrible violent death of a member: Maria Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39, known as Marisol, who worked for a newspaper in ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Valparaíso, "we must not accept any attack on the life of an unborn child for allegedly therapeutic reasons" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gonzalo Duarte García, Bishop of Valparaiso, in Chile, has recently launched an appeal to the Christians of his country so that they oppose to the laws that allow abortion or are likely ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "We urgently need to break the chain of violence", Nunzio's appeal Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, stressed the urgent need to break the chain of violence and death that affects the Dominican Republic and asked ...
• 23 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-ITNPIS march: The Church is always available to guide the dialogue between the sides La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The march in defense of the Indigenous Territory National Park Isiboro Secure, ITNPIS (see Fides 30/08/2011, 20/09/2011), has stopped in the small town of San Miguel de Chaparina about 8 kilomete ...
• 23 September 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nearly 100 years after the first law against human trafficking, the struggle of the Church continues Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Today, September 23, at 5pm at Plaza Constitucion in the capital of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, sj, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, will celebrate a Mass for the victims of human ...