America

• 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 ...
• 12 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - We are all implied in the Continental Mission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Mexico have prepared the final document of the XC Plenary Assembly, which emphasizes the Church's involvement in the Continental Mission. "We come together to share the diff ...
• 10 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church does not seek or demand privileges, but a juridical system that respects its mission; 90th Bishops' Assembly begins Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The 90th Plenary Assembly of the Mexican Bishops' Conference has begun. The opening ceremony was marked by an exchange of very significant messages. The presence of the constitutional Pres ...
• 10 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Education and the environment, focus of Bishops' Assembly Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – Education and the environment will be the themes that occupy the agenda of the Bolivian Bishops gathered for their 90th Extraordinary Meeting, from November 11 to 16 at the Clemente Cardina ...
• 9 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops' Conference declares 2011 “Year for Life” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy Father has invited everyone to hold a prayer vigil for the unborn on November 27, at the beginning of Advent, to thank God for the complete gift of Himself that has given meanin ...
• 8 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Rehabilitation of an ethics of politics,” called for by the Bishops' Commission for Pastoral Social; preparing for 100th Plenary Meeting of Bishops' Conference Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of San Isidro and President of the Bishops' Commission for Pastoral/Social Ministry, Bishop Jorge Casaretto, has recalled that "the new leadership should not limit itself to em ...