America

• 23 June 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 14th National Mission Congress CONAMI: “With Mary, we share our faith with joy” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Mexico will celebrate the 14th National Mission Congress CONAMI in Lazaro Cardenas City, in the state of Michoacan, 21 - 24 October 2010. In a special statement Bishop Rafael ...
• 22 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Human trafficking and drugs trade: major areas of transnational organised crime New York (Agenzia Fides) – Trafficking of human persons and the drugs trade, two major areas of transnational organised crime, were the subject of an intervention by the Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nation ...
• 22 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church calls for dialogue to address the issue of vendors expelled from the capital San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador today said frank dialogue was necessary to solve the problem of hundreds of street vendors expelled from the capital, a measure which came in force on 1 ...
• 22 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The number of persons killed in torrential rains in north-east Brazil rises to 32 Alagoas (Agenzia Fides) – Two days of uninterrupted rain, over 21 towns in Zona da Mata, the Paraiba valley and Costa Nord of Brazil's Alagoas State, left 32 dead, about 80,000 people homeless and more than one thousa ...
• 21 June 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Catholic Church denounces: violence and delinquency impede the political life of the community Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Mexico, in a statement from its Communications Department, Sistema Informativo de la Arquidiocesis de Mexico , denounces continual violence in the country which sometime ...
• 21 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Juan Manuel Santos new president of Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's former Minister of Defence won the second round of presidential elections held yesterday 20 June, with 69% of the votes compared to 27.5% of the rival candidate, ...
• 21 June 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Convalescent in hospital priest stabbed during the celebration of Mass Calbuco (Agenzia Fides) – A parish priest, stabbed during Mass on Friday 18 June and operated, is still in hospital convalescing. The priest was stabbed in the neck while distributing Holy Communion at the end of evening Mass ...
• 19 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church calls people to vote “ freely and responsibly ” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ruben Salazar Gomez, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Colombia, in a video message, a copy of which was sent to Fides, has called on Colombians to vote freely and with re ...
• 19 June 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Seminarians, "Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ”: First National Mission Congress Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – With the slogan "Seminarians, Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd ", Bolivia's 1st Mission Congress for Seminarians will be held at San José Seminary in the city of Co ...
• 19 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Continental Mission reaches remote parishes in the Cuzco Andes Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) – Today the first meeting of the Deanery of Paruro will take place in the parish of San Martino de Tours in Ccapi, archdiocese Cuzco. Seven different parishes will be represented: Accha, Rondocan, ...
• 18 June 2010
  AMERICA - “We must work for the poor”: Symposium of Christian businessmen in Latin America Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – “Challenges of business 200 years since the independence of Latin America and the Caribbean" has been the theme of the 10th Symposium CELAM – UNIAPAC (International Union of Christian ...
• 18 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Our mission with migrants: 3.3 million internally displaced persons: a situation demanding attention Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – On 24 June the Major Seminary of Bogota will host a national Forum “Assistance and solidarity, our mission with migrants”. In a statement sent to Fides, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of ...
• 17 June 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Rigoberta Menchú and the Bishop of San Marcos call on President Colom to guarantee security for the people and respect for the environment Guatemala City(Agenzia Fides) – Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, and Bishop Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop of San Marcos (Guatemala), have asked President Colom ...
• 17 June 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “ Inculturated Catechesis”: ability to be, to live and to accompany the people to encounter Christ Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – “We reaffirm the importance of culture in the life of our peoples, encouraging incarnated pastoral care, which understands and uses symbolic language to make room for God in the life of ...
• 16 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Digital culture impact in Latin America: Inter-continental Meeting Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – From today until 19 June representatives of various institutions participating in a continental study on "The impact of digitall culture in Latin America " are meeting in Bogota, at the head of ...