America
4 May 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnappers in Haiti release hostages
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Kidnappers have released five priests, two nuns and two other people who had been held for nearly three weeks. The kidnapping took place on Sunday 11 April, and all the hostages are safe ...
3 May 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A doctor beatified during the pandemic: José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, "filled with science and faith"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Last Friday in Caracas, Venezuela, José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful, was beatified. He was a doctor filled with science and faith: he was able to recognise the face of Christ in ...
3 May 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - June 6 elections: bishops ask for the best option, beyond the clashes between parties and candidates
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Catholic Church has urged its faithful to discern and seek, among the candidates in the June 6 elections, "the best option", beyond the confrontations between parties and candida ...
30 April 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consolata missionaries: "Support the efforts of indigenous communities to react to the condition of abandonment and degradation"
Cartago (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time the entire territory of the diocese of Cartago has been experiencing a very problematic social situation characterized by degradation and insecurity. Its causes are to be found, o ...
29 April 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church is close to the population of the city besieged by criminal violence
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mexico will make all its resources and structures available for aid programs to promote human life. This was emphasized by the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop F ...
28 April 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The first international Congress United for Life: strengthening the defense of life in all areas
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the 15th anniversary of the "National March for Life" in Colombia, the city platform "United for Life" will hold the first International Congress United for Life on 1 May, whose object ...
28 April 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - PMS National Assembly: at this time of the pandemic we need to "reinvent ourselves" as promoters of the mission
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Bolivia was inaugurated on April 27, virtually, to evaluate, coordinate and plan the activities of the PMS. During the meeting, ...
28 April 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Resignation and appointment of vicar apostolic of Caroní
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Caroní, Venezuela, presented by Bishop Felipe González González, O.F.M. Cap.
The Holy F ...
27 April 2021
AMERICA/CHILE - Bishop of Arica outraged about deportation detention for 32 migrants from Venezuela
Arica (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Moisés Atisha, Bishop of the Chilean diocese of San Marcos de Arica, has published a statement in which he expresses "indignation and rejection" for the events that occurred on April 23, 2 ...
26 April 2021
AMERICA/PERU - A life at the service of the least of society: the lay volunteer Nadia de Munari killed in Nuevo Chimbote
Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - Nadia de Munari, a 50-year-old Italian lay missionary died on Saturday 24, April after being brutally attacked with a machete while she was sleeping.
The woman, a lay missionary for Operatio ...
26 April 2021
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Beatification of the Martyrs of Quichè: "Inspired by faith in Christ, heroic witnesses of justice and peace"
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "This past Friday, in Santa Cruz de Quiché in Guatemala, José Maria Gran Cirera and nine martyr companions were beatified: three priests and seven lay people belonging to the Congregation o ...
24 April 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of Vocations: the missionary vocation continues to attract young people who join the Missionaries of Yarumal
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Institute for Foreign Missions of Yarumal (MXY) was founded in 1927 in Yarumal, a town in the diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, for evangelization and missionary work. "Our missionaries are curr ...
24 April 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Day of Vocations: despite the economic and social crisis and the pandemic, vocations to the priesthood have increased
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The work of promoting vocations in Venezuela is bearing fruit. This year, despite the full social and economic crisis that the country is going through, aggravated by the pandemic situation caus ...
22 April 2021
AMERICA / CHILE - "Schools closed, but the mission continues even amidst difficulties": the commitment of the Salesians in times of pandemic
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Covid-19 does not stop its race in Chile and in recent months the situation has significantly worsened: although 40% of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, the infect ...
22 April 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Commitment of the Church and the UN Food Program to ensure school meals for one and a half million children
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Venezuela and the World Food Program, the United Nations World Food Program, will work together to ensure school meals for one and a half million children. This is what emerged fro ...
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