America
8 October 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Caritas and student pastoral care: "Free elections under the sign of peace and democracy"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the presidential elections in Bolivia, which will be held on Sunday, October 18, the Social Pastoral/Caritas (Pasoc), in cooperation with the student Pastoral office, are appeal ...
7 October 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - Laws must be at the service of the dignity of every human being
Nuevo Casas Grandes (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the current situation in our country, we see the serious risk that another initiative will further divide and polarize society and destroy the most important institution ...
7 October 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop of Matagalpa: "The future of our country is at stake"
Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - After Mgr. Mata had already commented on the latest bills (see Fides, 1/10/2020), Mgr. Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, also spoke during a press conference last Sunday: ...
6 October 2020
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: "may this new period of national life be an opportunity to build a different Guatemala"
Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of October, the Bishops of Guatemala published a message "of hope and a call to commitment from Catholics and society" entitled "I saw a new heaven and a new earth" (Ap 21-1). ...
6 October 2020
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Pastoral plan 2021: Congregations should participate in processes of missionary renewal
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the fundamental challenges the Church and society are facing in this time of health and economic crisis, the Dominican Bishops' Conference (CED), in collaboration with the Natio ...
5 October 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Coronavirus pandemic: Procession in honor of the Señor de los Milagros canceled for the second time in its 300-year history
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For the second time in the 333-year history of this major religious event, the traditional procession of the Señor de los Milagros ("The Lord of Miracles") in Peru, the largest of its kind in all ...
5 October 2020
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - World Mission Sunday 2020: "Mission can help us face the challenges of today"
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - With a view to World Mission Sunday 2020, the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States (MISSIO) recall that this event will be celebrated on October 18, together with missionaries ar ...
3 October 2020
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops express disappointment: Congress wants to further reduce the number of refugees
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, the US State Department released its report to Congress recommending the admission of a maximum of 15,000 refugees to the United States in 2021. The report is the first ...
3 October 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 6th Brazilian Social Week: mobilize society to strengthen democracy
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The chairman of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte (MG), recorded a video to contribute in the participation of the 6th Brazilian ...
2 October 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Towards Mission Sunday: sowers of hope and mercy
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Colombia, which have responded to the Pope's call to proclaim the Gospel even in times of pandemic, have offered the 77 ecclesiastical circumscriptions in the ...
2 October 2020
AMERICA/CHILE - Catholics and the referendum: the testimony of each one can be a source of peace, brotherhood and unity
Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - A referendum will be held in Chile on October 25th, where citizens will decide whether to amend the Constitution and what mechanism should be used to draft it if its amendment is approved (s ...
1 October 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In 2019, violence against indigenous communities and territories doubled
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Report on violence against the indigenous peoples of Brazil, prepared by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), was released yesterday, 30 September, which reiterates the portrait of an ...
1 October 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Nobody is above the Constitution": Mgr. Mata on the new laws that repress human and political rights
Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor Abelardo Mata, Bishop of the diocese of Esteli and spokesman for the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference (CEN), harshly criticized the proposal of the President, Daniel Ortega, on the lates ...
30 September 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico is the main destination for Central American migrants
Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - Mexico's border with Guatemala, which had been closed due to the pandemic, was reopened a few days ago, and the number of migrants arriving in Mexico is already increasing. The note sent to Fi ...
30 September 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Archbishop of Bogotà: "Life is threatened, destroyed and massacred, but we still have time to love it again"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "A complaint and an anguished cry rise from the four cardinal points of Colombia. Life is threatened, devalued, wounded. Life is destroyed and massacred. With deep sorrow we repudiate all forms o ...
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