America
12 March 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appeal of the Pact for Life and for Brazil in the face of the worsening pandemic situation in the country
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no time to waste, negtionism kills. The virus is circulating from north to south of Brazil, replicating strains, affecting different age groups, punishing the most vulnerable. Patient ...
11 March 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - The mission of the politician: a vocation at the service of national reconciliation and the construction of the common good
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Political vocation cannot be reduced to belonging to a party or to supporting an ideological postulate from a platform. Politics, on the other hand, implies a "vocation to service". This ser ...
11 March 2021
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The situation remains very difficult, the Church constantly invokes peace and dialogue to solve problems
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church cannot take a position in favor or against the accusation of impeachment of the President of the Republic. The position of the Church is to constantly invoke peace": these are the w ...
10 March 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - Religious write a letter to President Moïse. "You have a duty to respond to the requests of the population"
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "As men and women religious trying to provide assistance in all areas of the life of the Haitian people and in the most remote and difficult places in the country ... we witness the miser ...
9 March 2021
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Combat killings linked to the victim's gender through integral education based on the dignity of women, protection of life and gender equality
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Each new case of murder linked to the sex of the victim shakes Argentinian society. In fact, 82% of these murders take place in the context of domestic violence and 60% occur in the victim' ...
9 March 2021
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Demonstrations against corruption among politicians and mismanagement of the pandemic
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - For four days, demonstrations, even violent, have followed in the capital of Paraguay, Asunción, aimed at protesting against the corruption of local politicians and against the management of t ...
8 March 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Women on mission": women at the forefront of the Church's mission
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "This is its mission: to be an instrument of love in a polarized world permeated by hatred! Women are at the forefront of the mission". This is what the Counselor of the Episcopal Pastoral Comm ...
8 March 2021
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Call for dialogue by the Church after the violent demonstrations in Formosa against the return to lockdown in the fight against Covid-19
Formosa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension and violence continue in Formosa, both in the city and in this Argentine province on the border with Paraguay after provincial authorities ordered a total lockdown as part of the fight a ...
5 March 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Threats against the Bishop of Buenaventura in a context of increasing violence and reaction of the Episcopate
Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "We express solidarity, closeness, affection and support to our brother Bishop of this diocese, Mgr. Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya, following threats to his integrity and his life, to whi ...
5 March 2021
AMERICA/CHILE - Testimony of a long-term Spanish missionary and the presence of Jesus Christ, the Good Samaritan
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In Spain, the Hispanic-American Day will be celebrated next Sunday and for the occasion, Agenzia Fides has received from the Archdiocese of Toledo the testimony of Father Félix Zaragoza, the o ...
4 March 2021
AMERICA/PERU - "Selvas Amazónicas": Dominican Order launches new magazine
Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - With the magazine “Selvas Amazónicas”, the Dominican Order is launching a new magazine that aims to report and analyze the reality of the communities in the Amazon forest in which Dominican ...
4 March 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops on the upcoming elections: "For a democratic and just Bolivia"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "But you, brothers, do not be remiss in doing good" (2 Thess 3:13). With this exhortation taken from the second letter of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, the Bishops' Conference of Bolivia ...
3 March 2021
AMERICA - Appeal to the governments of Chile and Bolivia for the dramatic situation of migrants
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The ecclesial institutions committed to migrants who work on the border between Bolivia and Chile appeal to the governments of the two nations so that the response to forced migration comes fro ...
3 March 2021
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Tense situation: desecration of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, increase in the number of thefts, economic stagnation, protests for vaccines to VIPs
Lomas de Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentine diocese of Lomas de Zamora informs that during the early hours of March 2, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace was the subject of acts of vandalism. The tabernacle which hou ...
2 March 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The meeting between Simon Bolivar and the Bishop of Maracaibo two centuries ago challenges our situation today
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "A historic and significant event for our beloved homeland": this is how the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela descrive the meeting between " Libertador" Simón Bolívar and Mgr. Rafael Lasso de ...
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