America

• 24 June 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the Year of the Priesthood “Adopt a priest ” Prayer Campaign, to obtain for priests the spiritual strength necessary for the mission Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The “Bonds of Marian Love” Movement based in Medellin (Colombia), has launched a prayer campaign “Adopt a Priest” as part of the Year of the Priesthood opened on 19 June. The aim of the campaign is to pray for one priest “as a commitment for this Year of the Priestho ...
• 22 June 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase with string”: Mexicans abandoned as far as 600km away from their villages. And Mexican women! Deported at the age of 17. The most vulnerable, in places where there is no one to help them. Nogales Arizona (Agenzia Fides) – We are in Nogales Arizona, a city which borders on Nogales Sonora, another city in Mexico. Hundreds of migrants deported from the United States back to Mexico pass through here every d ...
• 20 June 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “A suitcase with string”: “The coyotes want 3, 4, 5 thousand dollars for a border crossing. An average 200-300 thousand illegal immigrants every year … traffic of at least 600,000 dollars, not counting the drug circle " New York (Agenzia Fides) – “ The coyotes want 3, 4, 5 thousand dollars for a border crossing. An average 200-300 thousand illegal immigrants every year … traffic of at least 600,000 dollars, not counting the drug c ...
• 19 June 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Letter for Priests at the inauguration of the Year for Priests: “May we conform ourselves more each day to the image of Jesus, the Good Shepherd.” Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Nestor Herrera Heredia of Machala, President of the Commission for Ministers and Consecrated Life for the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, sent a letter to all the priests in the country f ...
• 16 June 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church decries assassination of a priest and two seminarians and calls for a prompt investigation to determine perpetrators of the crime Ciudad Altamirano (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference has issued a statement in which they decry the murders of a priest and two seminarians, which took place on June 13 in Ciudad de Arcelia (Guerrero) an ...
• 16 June 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Letter from the Archbishop of Sucre to his priests: “The priestly vocation grows, develops, and remains faithful and fruitful, only in an intense relationship with Christ.” Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Jesus Perez Rodriguez, OFM, of Sucre has written a letter addressing all the priests of the diocese, for the beginning of the Year of the Priest, which will take place on June 19, Sol ...
• 15 June 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Following the assassination of a catechist working in Social Ministry, the Church asks that civilians not be caught up in the conflict Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Secretariat for Social Ministry in Colombia issued a statement in response to the murder of Jorge Humberto Echeverri Garro, a 40-year-old professor and catechist, making an appeal ...
• 15 June 2009
  AMERICA/PANAMA - “The Eucharist: Source and Summit of Our Mission,” theme of the 39th Eucharistic Congress, during which the Archdiocese will launch its Great Mission Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Panama will officially launch its Great Mission, this Sunday, June 21, at 9am, in the Roberto Mano Arena of Piedra Duran, on the occasion of its 39th Eucharistic Congres ...
• 12 June 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Launching of “Compartir” Campaign 2009, to promote the reconstruction of churches destroyed in the 2007 earthquake Lima (Agenzia Fides) – With the title: “Earthquakes Destroy, Sharing Rebuilds,” the Peruvian Bishops' Conference will launch a campaign on June 12, entitled “Compartir” (Share) 2009. This year, the Bishops are ...
• 12 June 2009
  AMERICA/REPUBLICA DOMINICANA - Government rejects proposal to modify civil effects of marriage in Constitution Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – On June 10, the Revisionary Assembly vetoed a proposal aimed at acknowledging the civil effects of the marriages held in all the churches present in the Dominican Republic, in the Consti ...
• 12 June 2009
  AMERICA/CUBA - Community of Sant'Egidio inaugurates “Home of Peace and Dialogue” in Havana Havana (Agenzia Fides) – On June 5, the Community of Sant'Egidio inaugurated the “Home of Peace and Dialogue” in Havana (Cuba). From now on, it will serve as the headquarters of the movement on the island. At ...
• 10 June 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “The Suitcase with a String”: the whole day spent in the fields, under the sun, without food, with only water...but we can't go back home until we pay the debt, the entire debt we owe the ones who led us here New York (Agenzia Fides) – The immigrants who manage to reach the US from Mexico become prisoners of those who had helped them get there, and until they pay their debt with the traffickers, they cannot even think about ...
• 10 June 2009
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - National Pastoral Commission denounces weakening of democratic system with the public loss of credibility and trust in government institutions Siguatepeque (Agenzia Fides) – In a meeting held in Siguatepeque, June 1 and 2 for the ordinary session, members of the National Pastoral Commission analyzed the situation of the country, which they view with great con ...
• 10 June 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops' Conference accepts government's petition for mediation work with Amazon communities involved in the conflict Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The Peruvian government has asked the Catholic Church to join in the mediation effort with the Amazon communities in the conflict that took a bad fall on Friday following an uprising near Baguan ...
• 9 June 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Church in Mexico gathers in prayer for the children who died in the day care fire and for those that remain in serious condition in the hospitals “that they may soon recover and return home with their parents” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference issued a statement signed by their Secretary General Bishop Leopoldo Gonzalez, expressing their condolences to the families whose children died in the tragi ...