America

• 17 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church assists more than 3,500 people affected by torrential rains San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - It has been raining constantly for 8 days and this phenomenon has devastated El Salvador causing 32 deaths so far. The danger now is landslides in areas of low mountains, floodings in citi ...
• 15 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Fraud and buying votes": Bishops alert the population and the authorities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the Church is present even in the farthest corner of Colombia, we know of vote buying, voter migration, counterfeit ballots and the fact that even the dead start to vote. We stress that no ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA - "The Church in Latin America is alive, despite the difficult situation in different countries": interview with His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, President of CELAM Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From October 6 to 12, the members of the Presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), led by their President, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Monitoring program for victims of violence in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Official statistics speak of 3 million people who have been dispossessed from their lands and properties in Colombia because of armed conflicts that have affected the country for years. The prote ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - While the country is experiencing a climate of high tension, the Bishops stress that "dialogue is the path to solve problems" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia issued a separate statement to help calm the tense atmosphere that lives in the country. In the note sent to Fides, together with the Bishops’ statement, we ...
• 13 October 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionaries from 11 countries are studying the Brazilian reality in which they will work Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the Mission Cultural Center of Brazil twenty missionaries from abroad are participating in the 106th edition of the course promoted by CENFI (Center for Intercultural Formation) as an intro ...
• 12 October 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - 5 years of service to the communication of the Cuban Catholic communities Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Maria Celli, sent a letter to His Exc. Mgr. Wilfredo Pino, Bishop of Guantánamo and the President of the ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - A special Mission Day, with the relics of St. Teresa at the headquarters of the PMS and the first "virtual Campaign" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru always celebrate with immense intensity the month of October and World Mission Sunday. This year in particular there is even another reason of joy: t ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - A school for the poorest of the poor San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 boys and girls, who mainly come from poor families, attend St. Louise School in El Salvador. It is an oasis of peace away from the city drowned by drugs, violence and rebellio ...
• 11 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Threats cannot intimidate the Nicaraguan Church", said the Bishop of Matagalpa Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua) made a complaint to the local press that he received threats over the phone. One of his family answered the call and he ...
• 10 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Representative of UNICEF visited the headquarters of the PMS Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Argentina, Father Osvaldo Pablo Leone, received on Friday, October 7 the visit of a UNICEF Representative in Argentina, Mr ...
• 10 October 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Missionary Month begins with the sending of 150 catechists Miranda (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo García Naranjo, Bishop of the Diocese of Guarenas, in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, celebrated a Mass of the sending of 150 missionary catechists from different paris ...
• 10 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Morality, democracy and pluralism in the Bishops' document for the elections to be held on November 6 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua has published its message on the occasion of the upcoming elections on November 6, signed by all the bishops with the date of October 7, 2011, a copy of whi ...
• 8 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Discouragement among the population of Veracruz due to the climate of violence: 36 corpses were found Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - Just two days after the signing of the plan "Veracruz Seguro" between the federal government and the state government of Veracruz, 32 bodies were found in 3 houses, and another 4 bodies were fo ...
• 8 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church wants to know the truth about father Pupiro’s death Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The clergy of the Archdiocese of Managua, united as one body in communion with the Archbishop and the Auxiliary Bishop for the monthly meeting of October, would like to remember our brother pri ...