America

• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' comments on public education laws La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB) has presented six observations on the draft education bill (the bill was tabled by Avelino Sinani and Elizardo Perez), as reported by Limbert Ayarde, execu ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Year for Life: a Vigil for Life in all dioceses, to join the Pope Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – In support of the Vigil for Life called by the Pope, and the Year for Life organized by the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, Saturday, 27 November in all dioceses, parishes and chapels ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From the Amazon Forest to Sierra Leone, Tapauá assists Kamabai mission Tapauá (Agenzia Fides) – From 2006, when a group of lay Catholics in the city of Tapauà attended a meeting of missionary activities at the headquarters of the mission in Labrea, the parish of Santa Rita de Tapau deci ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Yet another priest assassinated in Brazil; from Sao Luis, ordained this September Sao Luis (Agenzia Fides) – Father Bernardo Muniz Rabelo Amaral, aged 28, Assistant Pastor in the city of Humberto de Campos (about 120 km from Maranhão), passed away on the evening of Saturday, 20 November in Sao Luis ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meeting in Lima for 25 years of the Christian Life Movement Lima (Agenzia Fides) – This year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Christian Life Movement (CLM), and thousands of people will gather on 27 November at the College of La Recoleta in Lima, Peru's ca ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops of Nicaragua attend SEDAC meeting in Costa Rica Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua are in Alajuela, Costa Rica, for the annual meeting of the Bishops' Secretariat of Central America (SEDAC), held from 22 to 26 November, where they attended a press con ...
• 22 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - “They've closed the border, but only to the poor”: Claretian Missionaries' testimony Jimani (Agenzia Fides) - “In Jimani, the small town on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, security measures have been taken to make sure cholera does not enter the Dominican Republic. The most serious ...
• 20 November 2010
  AMERICA - "Countries should not only devote effort to the control of migration flow, but also to the protection of migrants and the fight against organized crime," Archbishop Vegliò concludes Continental Meeting of the Pastoral Care of Migrants Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Continental Meeting for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in Latin America was held in the capital of Colombia, November 17 to 20, on the theme "Towards a better pastoral economic and ...
• 18 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Promoting and supporting the activity of the Holy Childhood Association Carcarañá (Agenzia Fides) – About 44 youth missionaries from different parts of the Archdiocese of Rosario took part in an Initiation of the Workshop in the city of Carcarañá, organized by the Pontifical Society of ...
• 17 November 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops call for peace in tensions with Nicaragua: “Violence has never achieved anything but destruction” San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Costa Rica has called the country's government and the population to maintain open channels of dialogue and negotiations and prevent any manifestation of violence as a solution ...
• 15 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - 200,000 people showing signs of cholera: added tragedy for suffering Haiti Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After almost 11 months after the greatest tragedy that the island has seen and that according to the official estimate has caused 230,000 deaths, the epidemic of cholera now threatens some 200,000 ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Prayer Service held in New York for victims of October 31 attack in Baghdad New York (Agenzia Fides) – Ambassadors and diplomats attended an Evening Prayer Service for the victims of the ferocious 31 October attack on the worshipers of Our Lady of Deliverance Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghd ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastors authorized to cancel liturgical celebrations to protect population from violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM) has authorized the priests of the areas hardest hit by the violence plaguing the country to suspend celebrations or change Mass schedules in order to ...
• 13 November 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Central American University remembers Jesuits killed 21 years ago San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Salvadorans are paying tribute to the Jesuits killed 21 years ago at the hands of the military, with a series of cultural activities and the traditional parade of "Little Lanterns" (in Sp ...
• 12 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' concern: a formal democracy devoid of values Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church has expressed its concern over the risk for democracy in Bolivia becoming "purely formal, without values and without ethical principles" due to the negative signs being ...