America
2 March 2021
AMERICA - Red Clamor campaign until September on human trafficking
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Red Clamor Network (Migration and Human Trafficking) presented the program of activities of the "Life is not a commodity, but concerns people" campaign which will last until September 2021. Accor ...
1 March 2021
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops want reliable and independent judges
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Regarding the "obvious and persistent difficulties" in choosing the members of the courts, the bishops made a statement entitled "The Lord loves justice" (Ps 37:28).
First of all, the Pr ...
1 March 2021
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops: "Euthanasia is always the wrong way"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Bishops' Conference gives its opinion on the first case of euthanasia in the history of Peru: the country's judiciary has ordered the Ministry of Health and Social Security (EsSalud) " ...
27 February 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - About 4 million people affected by food insecurity: the country is on the brink of abyss
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In the latest report by the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation in Haiti, the latter points out the worsening of the economic situation, below-average agricultural productio ...
26 February 2021
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Bishops address the issue of fraternity on Independence Day
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "What does fraternity mean in the Dominican Republic today?" The Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic is addressing this question in its message for Independence Day on February 2 ...
25 February 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Church calls for dialogue between government and doctors on strike and arrival of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 500,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm were delivered to Bolivia on February 24th to vaccinate medical staff and the population at risk in Bolivia. As confirmed by the Bolivian ...
25 February 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 30 years of missions in Venezuela and abroad for Venezuelan missionaries
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Indigenous and Afro-Venezuelan Missions, in collaboration with the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela, is relaunching the program known as "Relevo Misionero" (Missionary ...
24 February 2021
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Right to water and food: the parties sign a public commitment
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Efforts to approve an amendment to the constitution to recognize the right to water and food as human rights in El Salvador are making progress.
After access to water and sanitation was re ...
24 February 2021
AMERICA - Continental Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "We cannot but announce what we have seen and heard"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot but announce what we have seen and heard": this is the theme of the Continental Assembly of National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in America, which is being held in virtua ...
24 February 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants: the many aspects of the mobility circuit in Central America
Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - The northern border of Mexico represents one of the main migratory corridors in the world, characterized by violations of fundamental rights and by a high risk for the lives of migrants, discrim ...
23 February 2021
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Looking to history while thanking God, looking to the future confident in his power": one hundred years of the Ecclesiastical Province
San José (Agenzia Fides) - "It is clear that the Catholic faith of our people has been a fundamental factor in building the identity that defines us in the world, as a nation that fights for peace, democracy, social jus ...
23 February 2021
AMERICA - Beginning of the journey in view of the Ecclesial Assembly next November
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American churches are starting to prepare for the first ecclesiastical assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean, which is to take place from November 21 to 28 in the Guadalupe Basil ...
22 February 2021
AMERICA/URUGUAY - "Catechesis and Mission": advanced training seminar aims to initiate dialogue
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 650 people attended a one-week training seminar on “Catechesis and Mission” organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies in America with the support of the Society of Latin Ame ...
22 February 2021
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops to the government: elections, an opportunity to resolve the country's crisis
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Less than nine months before the general elections in Nicaragua, the Bishops who are members of the Bishops' Conference (CEN) united in the call of the population asking the government of Presid ...
20 February 2021
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops to the authorities: the most vulnerable people must receive the vaccine first
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask public authorities to facilitate the procedures for the purchase and administration of vaccines, respecting the established criteria, so that the most vulnerable people receive it first, a ...
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