America

• 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 ...
• 13 July 2010
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Greater faith in Christ and efforts for solidarity, but frightening spread of violence Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The 48th Assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic, held in Santo Domingo 4 - 9 July, in a closing message, a copy of which was sent to Fides, expresses the ...
• 13 July 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Local Church backs law to punish participation in death gangs or death squads San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador has expressed support for a new law proposed by the government to punish members of death gangs or death squads. “I wish to congratulate President Mau ...
• 12 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “We want to be missionary priests!” - Final Message for First National Missionary Congress of Seminarians Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The morning of Saturday, July 10, marked the close of the first National Missionary Congress of Seminarians in Brasilia, which addressed the theme of missionary formation of future priests (s ...
• 12 July 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Guayaquil celebrates first Day of the Society of Saint Peter the Apostle, for native vocations Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – While the Archdiocese of Guayaquil has already celebrated the Day of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle for native vocations on June 29, in the Parish of Stella Maris in Guasmo ...
• 10 July 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - “After 6 months, many of the people who were living in tents still have nothing...many see no way out,” Apostolic Nuncio in Haiti tells Fides Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, affecting much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, Fides has asked Apostolic Nuncio in Haiti, Archbishop Bishop Bernard Auza, a few questions on the ...