America

• 7 April 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nearly 100 dead after heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – Nearly a hundred people died due to heavy rains that began Monday night, April 5th, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, which has 16 million inhabitants, paralyzing the state capi ...
• 30 March 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - "On April 6, the major seminary reopens and we must find accommodations for the surviving 243 seminarians," Apostolic Nuncio tells Fides; Papal Holy Thursday Mass Collection to be sent to Seminary in Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – "After hesitation and doubt, the Bishops have decided to call the seminarians back together and re-open the academic year on April 6. With the destruction of the entire Major Seminary, ...
• 30 March 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Continental Meeting of PMS National Directors from the Americas: plans for CAM 4, support for Haiti, year dedicated to Pauline Jaricot Orlando (Agenzia Fides) – More than 20 nations in North America and South America were represented during the weeklong meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Orlando, Florida (USA), March 15 to 21. Discu ...
• 29 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Clean Card” voting for April 7 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Michel Temer, recently announced that he had put on the agenda for April 7 the "Clean Card" project (PLP 518/09), and urged leaders to make ...
• 27 March 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - 47% of churches damaged in earthquake, one million faithful without a place of worship; report on Church structures one month after the earthquake Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – 47% percent of Chile's Catholic churches were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of February 27: this is affirmed in a Report on the damage to religious buildings published by the ...
• 27 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazil, country with greatest social injustice in Latin America Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – According to a study published by UN-Habitat, the UN agency for human settlements, Brazil is the country with the greatest inequality levels in Latin America: while 10 percent of the richest ...
• 26 March 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest killed in Colombia Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) – The body of Fr. Román de Jesús Zapata, was found March 24 in the rectory of the parish's jurisdiction of Currulao, in Turbo, about 500 km from the capital city of Bogota, where he was past ...
• 26 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Campaign starts in Brazil, to “help Christians look beyond their own borders” Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On March 22, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Brasilia, the Coordination Commission of the Missionary Campaign, which in fact has begun preparations to spread ...
• 25 March 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Thousands of child and adolescent workers receive aid from Salesian and Jesuit initiatives Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The phenomenon of child labor in Ecuador has the face of a million working children, 18% of the economically active population. In a country where 54% of the population is in the grip of poverty ...
• 25 March 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Salesian Brother killed in Bogota On March 20, the Salesian Brother Luis Enrique Pineda, from the “Saint Peter Claver” Province of Colombia-Bogotá (COB), was killed in the city of Bogotà, at 8:00 in the evening. On his way to visit relatives, Brot ...
• 25 March 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Seminar on human trafficking brings together authorities from various countries Sao Paolo (Agenzia Fides) – There is a Regional Seminar on trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation taking place today, March 25th, in São Paulo (SP), with the participation of authorities from six nations. The ...
• 25 March 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Prisoners transcribe the Rosary and “Akathistos” hymn into Braille for blind sisters Lomas de Zamora (Agenzia Fides) – The prisoners of the Provincial Unit No. 40 of Lomas de Zamora have transcribed the work “With Mary, We Pray to Jesus,” into Braille for the blind, as an initiative of the Prison P ...
• 24 March 2010
  AMERICA - “My life belongs to the poor.” Archbishop Romero, 30 years later San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday, March 20, in the capital city of San Salvador to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, known a ...
• 24 March 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Youth from the PMS make an invitation to a Missionary Easter: “sow hope and proclaim love” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Enthusiastic in their efforts to awaken the missionary spirit of their peers, members of the movement "Jóvenes Sin Fronteras" are preparing the Youth Missionary Easter, which annually brings tog ...
• 23 March 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishop of Tilaran calls for caution before ruling on religious education in schools San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – On February 2, the Constitutional Court of Costa Rica declared that Article 34, paragraph 2 of the present law on the careers of teachers, which gave the Bishops' Conference the power to gra ...