America

• 8 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Catholic Church pleased with Funes' “important steps towards democracy” San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador has acknowledged that President Mauricio Funes has made "significant steps" in democracy during his first year in office. Without going into political d ...
• 7 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Church speaks out: Gold workers given low pay and no insurance Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) – The Human Rights Office of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado in Peru has reported on the continuing complaints reaching them from the workers of the lowest classes. They have b ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Over 3,000 children attend National HCA Meeting despite rain San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Saturday, May 29, at the auditorium of the Don Bosco Citadel in Soyapango, San Salvador hosted the IX National Meeting of the Pontifical Missionary Society of the Holy Childhood Associati ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Lay missionary in prison ministry dies in the waters of Rio Negro Rio Negro (Agenzia Fides) – A prison ministry worker and lay missionary, Pedro Fukuyei Yamaguchi Ferreira of the Diocese of San Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the Amazon (Brazil), was found dead after he was reported missing ...
• 5 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meetings with indigenous communities, to avoid repeating Bagua clashes Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos of Trujillo, has welcomed the attempt proposed by the Peruvian government to resolve the problems that exist in the A ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "We should be the ones to offer that little or a lot we have to those who have lost everything": casualties mount from storm in Central America, Holy Father's appeal Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Dead, injured, and many left homeless, destroyed homes, roads covered with mud, isolated communities: there is still not yet an exact account of the damage left from Tropical Storm Agatha ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing the joy of being disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ”: Ad Gentes Course 2010 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Colombia, Fr. Mario Alvarez Gómez, has sent Fides a statement on the "Ad Gentes Course 2010," which began May 31 and ends June 25 ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking: people like ourselves, human beings with a name, hopes and dreams, fears and disappointments Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “The starting point for ministering to migrants, refugees, trafficked persons is to understand their situation and all its components, personal, social, economic, political in the light of ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Pontifical Mission Societies honors Catholic journalists writing on Church's worldwide mission New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note recently sent to Fides from the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the USA, the PMS will be paying tribute to Catholic journalists who have de ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco prepares for HCA Missionary Congress on August 21 Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - "We missionary children sow hope for making a better place" is the theme of the Missionary Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (also known as “Missionary Childho ...
• 1 June 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Regina Coeli Radio's new website, to spread the Word of God on the Internet Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) – The "new face" of the website for Regina Coeli Radio, which belongs to the Diocese of Santa Maria de Los Angeles, has been launched. The new site has been defined as more simple and modern ...
• 31 May 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victim count rises following tropical storm Agatha Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – The death toll in Guatemala due to landslides caused by tropical storm "Agatha" has risen to 73, according to an official count. 49 victims were buried by a landslide in the department ...
• 31 May 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Presidential elections, Church calls for a more “fraternal, supportive, and peaceful society” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The presidential candidate of the Party of the U (Partido Social de Unidad Nacional), Juan Manuel Santos, won (according to local press) in the first round of presidential elections in Colombia, ...
• 29 May 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Papal concern for Latin America evident in support for Continental Mission; Cardinal Terrazas visits Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and President of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference, was recently in Rome for a short stay and a meeting with Pope Benedict X ...
• 29 May 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - First Assembly for Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins concludes Tocantins (Agenzia Fides) – Organized by Cimi (Indigenous Missionary Council), the First Meeting of Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins was held May 24 to 27, on the Campus of the State University of Tocantins, i ...