America
21 April 2021
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The wealth of indigenous peoples
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Every year from April 19th to 25th Argentina celebrates the "Week of the Indigenous Peoples". The week of action is intended to point out the reality of these peoples, promote commitment to ...
21 April 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - Three days of closure for Catholic schools and universities: release the kidnapped!
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Haiti (CEH) and the Conference of Haitian Religious have announced the closure of Catholic schools and universities from April 21st to 23rd. Catholic health fac ...
21 April 2021
AMERICA/PERU - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Victor Livori Grech, MSSP
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 25, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Victor Livori Grech, of the Missionary Society of St. Paul ...
20 April 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "It is urgent to work together to find solutions to current emergencies, there is no time for divisions!"
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their plenary Assembly, the Mexican bishops published a message addressed "to our beloved Mexican people". Divided into three points, it begins with a look at the current situa ...
20 April 2021
AMERICA - Church Assembly in Latin America: “Listening Phase” begins
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - As part of a so-called “listening phase”, the Church Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean wants to promote the exchange that "will be the leitmotif of the entire process of discernment ...
19 April 2021
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop of Asunción appeals to pharmaceutical companies: "It is not the time to make money at the expense of the sick"
Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not the time for speculation in order to earn money at the expense of the sick", said Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela of Asunción in an interview with a local newspaper about the diffi ...
19 April 2021
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Special Day of prayer for the situation of the pandemic
San José (Agenzia Fides) - Next Thursday, April 22, the bishops of Costa Rica invite its faithful to pray in order to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. During the Holy Mass and the Hours of Adoration, Catholics of the ...
19 April 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - The press announces the release of one of the kidnapped on Sunday, April 11
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the people kidnapped in Haiti last Sunday was reportedly released. Since then, there has been no further news from the kidnappers. A total of nine people are still held hostage", ...
17 April 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops: "We cannot be silent when life is threatened, rights are not respected, justice is corrupt"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Brazil is experiencing the worsening of a serious health, economic, ethical, social and political crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which challenges us, highlighting the structural inequali ...
17 April 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - Solidarity and prayer for the victims of kidnappings
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In all ten dioceses of the country, Catholics in Haiti held special masses on Thursday April 15 to show their solidarity with the victims of kidnappings. In the parish of Saint-Pierre in ...
16 April 2021
AMERICA/CHILE - The drama of migrants continues, amid hypocrisy, Covid and a new, more rigid law
Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - "The most painful thing of all this unfortunate situation is that the migratory process in Chile has revealed a chain of anomalous situations and the hypocrisy that sustains it. I hope that ...
16 April 2021
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and Peace" Commission expresses concern about high unemployment rates and increasing poverty and crime
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua comments on the current situation in the country and is concerned about "high unemployment rates, poor living conditions, low wag ...
15 April 2021
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Christian churches are demanding special cohesion in the pandemic
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not created through magic, but when we see signs that allow us to continue believing and fighting .... Signs that we can already see in so many people in our society who are faced wi ...
15 April 2021
AMERICA / MEXICO - Bishops ask for "co-responsibility" in school education while the number of Catholics decreases
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) has expressed its dissatisfaction with the improvised way in which the Secretariat of Education is reviewing the free basic level texts for the 2021- ...
14 April 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The service of Catholic education in society: a contribution to the common good
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The service of the Church in the field of public education, both in schools and in universities: this is the central theme of the CVIII Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia ...
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