America
16 September 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Not only are migrants not being listened to, the people of Tapachula are not being listened to" denounces Bishop Calderón Calderón
Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of migrants in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas protested yesterday, September 15, against the country's immigration policies, which thwarted their efforts to travel to the Unite ...
15 September 2021
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "we celebrate this Independence by committing ourselves to overcoming divisions and violent and selfish attitudes"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Bicentenary of the independence of Central America, which is celebrated today, September 15, 2021, the Bishops' Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) urged Nicaraguan society to m ...
14 September 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian bishops launch call for funds for Haiti
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "It's time to take care" is the theme of a Caritas campaign that proved to be an effective tool, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, to ensure a Samaritan presence of the Church in the liv ...
13 September 2021
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Apostolic Vicar of Chaco calls for greater government commitment against violence and for the release of the kidnapped
Alto Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) - The Vicar Apostolic of Chaco, Bishop Gabriel Escobar, has called on the Paraguayan government to do more to ensure the safe return of those kidnapped by the armed group in the north of the ...
11 September 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombia prepares for Mission Day 2021 and the centenary of the First National Missionary Congress
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We announce Christ, who gives us life and hope" is the slogan chosen by Colombia for the next World Mission Day (Domund 2021), which Mgr. Mario Álvarez Gómez, Bishop of Itsmina-Tadó and Presi ...
10 September 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops "in favor of women and the right to life"
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The nation's Supreme Court of Justice has ruled on the unconstitutionality of some articles of the Criminal Code of the State of Coahuila, concerning the criminalization of women who resort ...
10 September 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Our Lady of Coromoto shows us that salvation is not only for some, but for all, without distinction of race or origin
Guanare (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in the last 20 years, on the feast day of the Virgin of Coromoto, September 8, national and international media coverage of this celebration was carried out, with journalists ...
9 September 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Missionary Community, share the Word": a new missionary impulse arises from the Word of God
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Bolivia celebrates the Month of the Bible in September, placing particular emphasis on the relationship between the Word of God and the Mission, inviting us to meditate on the book ...
9 September 2021
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Against polarization and division: empower individuals, families, and communities to be bridgebuilders across perspectives
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a new initiative today aimed at addressing polarization in society. Based on Pope Francis’ call in his encyclical, Frat ...
8 September 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - Criminal gangs kill a priest in Cap Haitien
Cap Haitien (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 6, in Cap Haitien, in the north of the country, Father André Sylvestre, a 70-year-old priest, was attacked while leaving a bank. Wounded by a group of criminals, he die ...
7 September 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The imprisonment of Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez: testimony of the evangelizing mission
Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - "Like Jesus, Sister Gloria was dedicating her life to fighting disease, injustice and marginalization. Her missionary testimony, in contexts such as Mali, caused her misunderstandings up to he ...
7 September 2021
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - For Cardinal Rosa Chávez: "Democracy is in intensive care"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Democracy in El Salvador is in intensive care": this is the expression used by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Auxiliary of San Salvador, to make a comparison with a deadly disease that le ...
6 September 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Independence Day "should make us recognize that we are all brothers, including those with whom we disagree"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, urged Christians "not to be indifferent" to social exclusion and stressed the importance of pub ...
6 September 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - Human dignity and fundamental rights are not a matter of votes, but of recognition and respect
Nuevo Casas Grandes (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us remember that human dignity and fundamental rights are not a matter of votes, but of recognition and respect", strongly reaffirms Monsignor Jesús José Herrera Quiñones, Bi ...
4 September 2021
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Virtual mode or in presence, young people celebrate their 42nd National Day
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Around the slogan "He approached and walked with them", this weekend in most of the dioceses of Uruguay the 42nd National Youth Day (JNJ) is celebrated, in some dioceses in virtual mode and i ...
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