America

• 21 July 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “I am a missionary and I bring all people to encounter Christ ”: Union of Sick Missionaries Meeting Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – From 16 to 19 September 2010 the 14th National Meeting of the Union of Sick Missionaries (UEM) will take place in Saltillo, Coahuila, with the slogan: " I am a missionary and I bring all p ...
• 20 July 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - The ardour of Pauline Jaricot for Young Missionaries' National Day (JOMIS) Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – “A Missionary Church with Pauline, without borders or barriers” is the theme of the next Young Missionaries National Day (JOMIS) to be celebrated all over Chile on 22 July. According to i ...
• 19 July 2010
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Learning the “values of life” from early childhood: Catholic campaign reaches out to 250,000 children Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Aimed at teaching the principal values of life to youngsters from an early age this year's annual 'Children's Campaign', promoted by the Catholic Church in Honduras is reaching out to thou ...
• 17 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Callao city in a state of Permanent Mission Callao (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, Sunday 18 July, missionaries in Callao will live another intense moment of the journey of the Great Continental Mission. For the past two years they have been engaged in 'Operation Co ...
• 16 July 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - For the Church “the law allowing same sex marriage has been forced on the nation, with total disregard for the people” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Following almost fifteen hours of debate, the senate of Argentina approved a law to allow marriage between persons of the same sex. Argentina is the first Latin American country to adopt ...
• 16 July 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Seminar on the missionary value of serving the sick and the elderly Salta (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies in Salta, together with the archdiocesan Commission for Mission Pastoral, have organised for Saturday 17 July a Seminar on the theme: "Missionary Ministers of Co ...
• 16 July 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Emergency children in the community of Monte Albán Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – As a result of the earthquake which struck Mexico on 30 June, there is concern for the condition of a children's canteen in Monte Albán where, a recent after-tremor caused a landslide to fall ...
• 16 July 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Six months after the earthquake the country needs still more help with agriculture Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Six months after the devastating quake while timely food assistance and agricultural inputs helped avert a post-earthquake food crisis in Haiti, insufficient funding for agriculture con ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “ Evangelisation is not just planning, it is doing ”: reflections after First National Mission Congress for Seminarians Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – “This meeting has been an important experience of missionary commitment. Prayer, conferences, group discussion, hymns have had one same goal: how to prepare future priests to be shepherds a ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The greater the obstacles the greater still must be our efforts for reconciliation, peace and solidarity”: Assembly of Bishops concludes Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “The great majority of our people desires Venezuela to be ‘a home for all’ the dream of those who founded our Republic: a home of acceptance, tolerance, peace and brotherhood. One great ...
• 15 July 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Pope appoints National Director of the PMS auxiliary Bishop of El Alto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, appointed today, 15 July, as Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto (Bolivia), Rev. Eugenio Scarpellini, of the diocesan clergy of Bergamo (Italy), assigning him the ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Concern for the most vulnerable of refugees and migrants: women, children and the elderly Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The 6th National Meeting of Protection Networks promoted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Institute for Migration and Human Rights (IMDH) is being held in Br ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - “ Arequipa's Catholic Identity ”: archdiocese concludes 400th anniversary celebrations Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Special Envoy of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , to celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the creation of the diocese of Arequipa, arrived at Lima' ...
• 14 July 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Coal mine tragedy, casualties include 2 former Don Bosco pupils Amaga (Agenzia Fides) – On 16 June, in the town of Amaga, 73 miners at the end their shift were killed by an explosion of built-up methane. The Don Bosco news service ANS said the casualties included two former pupils ...
• 13 July 2010
  AMERICA/PANAMA - After tragic events in Changuinola, at last calm returns Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – After several days of unrest and angry discussion between workers and representatives of the government, at last calm has returned to Panama, and a call from many sides for the parties to ...