America
12 January 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "The protection of one's own life and the health of others is a moral duty"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "The global Covid-19 pandemic is causing suffering, uncertainty, fear and fatigue in the entire population. We think of the victims of this pandemic, their families and those who are currently su ...
11 January 2021
AMERICA/CHILE - New violence in Araucania: appeal of the Bishop of Temuco, "only fraternity generates social peace"
Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "These days our region, already deeply affected by the pandemic, poverty and lack of opportunities, polarization, failure to keep the promises made to the Mapuche people and the feeling of abando ...
11 January 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violations of the right to information and to the work of journalists denounced by the Archdiocese of Caracas
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On January 9, the Third Session of the Ordinary Plenary Assembly of of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) took place digitally, during which the Archbishops and Bishops of the country w ...
11 January 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - The nun kidnapped on January 8 released by kidnappers; dozens of acts of violence occur every day
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Fides by the Secretary General of the Conference of Religious of Haiti, Father Gilbert Peltrop, Sister Dachoune Sévère, a religious of the Congregation ...
10 January 2021
AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal of the Bishop of Anse-à-Veau/Miragoâne to pray after the kidnapping of a nun
Carrefour (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Friday, 8 January, unknown persons kidnapped a nun of the Little Sisters of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus from the nuns' residence located at Brochette 99, Commune de Ca ...
9 January 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The first Venezuelan Bishop to die of Covid-19
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Friday 8 January 2021, His Excellency Monsignor Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje, OCD, Bishop of Trujillo, victim of Covid-19 died. As the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference informs, he is the fir ...
9 January 2021
AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops: "With our vote we write history and generate progress or regression, security or insecurity"
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Ecuador are addressing, with a document entitled "Political responsibility", to all men and women of good will, regardless of their political and religious options, to invite them t ...
8 January 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Lasallian religious killed during an attempted theft
Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Víctor Hugo Basabe, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto, mourns in communion with the clergy of the Archdiocese and unites with all the pilgrims of God in our ...
8 January 2021
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Testimony of a Franciscan after the violence on the Capitol Building, there is need to start afresh from the search for peace and the common good
New York (Agenzi Fides) - "The violent insurrection on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC marks a dark moment in American history. It has shocked and disturbed the vast majority of Americans who believe in free speec ...
7 January 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops are calling for cohesion and inclusion in the pandemic
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "In the fight against Covid-19, it is important that everyone works together, in solidarity and without exclusions. The virus does not respect borders, social classes and any other forms of cat ...
7 January 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The analysis of the situation of the country in times of the pandemic at the center of the work of the Assembly of Bishops
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The 115th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV) begins today and will take place online, in accordance with the new regulations of the authorities of this country to lim ...
7 January 2021
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 June 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. David Arias Guzman, CM. as National Director of the Pontifical ...
5 January 2021
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Violence against women and families continues to worsen: "Let's sow peace in 2021"
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago and Chairman of the Dominican Bishops' Conference, Mgr Freddy Bretón Martínez, hopes that the country will have a judicial system that lives up to its name by 2021. ...
5 January 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Quibdó thanks for the aid collected and distributed during the pandemic and the winter period
Quibdó (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto Barreto, Bishop of the diocese of Quibdó, thanked the benefactors who supported communities in need during the Covid-19 pandemic and winter period. Quibdó is a munici ...
4 January 2021
AMERICA - Message from the President of CELAM: In addition to pain and poverty, 2020 will also go down in history for great acts of Christian charity"
Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are ending a year that history will remember as a time marked by the global health crisis related to the coronavirus - Covid-19. Our region was also faced with this harsh reality", says Mgr ...
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