America
6 August 2020
AMERICA/PERU - The bishops on the political crisis in the Country: "This is the worst time to cause a new crisis"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From large private companies to trade unions and the Catholic Church, everyone has asked the Executive and the Congress of Peru to immediately overcome the serious political crisis that the Country ...
6 August 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Letter from 152 bishops to criticize the management of the government
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 152 bishops from Brazil, about a third of the total members of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has published a "Letter to the People of God", in which serious criticisms are made ...
5 August 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The Amazon needs you", real help to the Amazonian peoples
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Almost three months after its launch, the "The Amazon needs you" campaign (See Fides, 19/05/2020) has collected over 700 thousand reais and this week provides a bulletin for the actions carried ...
5 August 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian solidarity: 100 dining rooms for 10,000 people
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has transferred the funds raised during the campaign "For a Peru without hunger", a great crusade of national solidarity, to the 100 dining rooms to assist the most needy people sufferin ...
4 August 2020
AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa on the pandemic: "sensitivity, unity, solidarity and generosity must prevail"
Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in a moment in which the great sense of sensitivity, unity, solidarity and generosity that will allow us to overcome the challenges as a country must prevail", are the words o ...
1 August 2020
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Sisters of Don Orione alongside young people to "help them get out of the vicious circle of addictions"
San Juan Bautista (Agenzia Fides) - "Since arriving in the locality of San Juan Bautista two years ago, we have been working in different sectors of society and specifically with young people: the goal is prevention and ...
1 August 2020
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Missionary Childhood Day: growing in holiness through daily experiences
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 2 August the Day of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence, JONIAM2020, is celebrated in Paraguay, on the theme "May it be done to me according to your Word" ("Hágase en mi según tu ...
31 July 2020
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Letter to legislators: "Is deciding for yourself when to die a human right?"
Minas (Agenzia Fides) - "Today more than ever we need an enthusiastic collective project in Uruguay: our biggest problem is the lack of population". This is what Mgr. Jaime Fuentes, Bishop Emeritus of Minas wrote in an o ...
31 July 2020
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The National Council of Churches recognizes religious freedom in Cuba
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The National Council of Churches (NCC) of the United States recognized the religious freedom existing in Cuba, and criticized the government of Donald Trump for blacklisting Cuba for serious ...
31 July 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Vicariate of Pando sends breathing apparatus to the most distant medical centers
Pando (Agenzia Fides) - Sixteen oxygen concentrators were sent by Mgr. Eugenio Coter, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pando, to the medical centers in the rural area. The purchase of these medical devices was made p ...
30 July 2020
AMERICA - Patriarchal culture, economic model, unjust laws: religious life against human trafficking
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to the universal community to raise its voice against the phenomenon of human trafficking and denounce the different expressions of the commercialization of life, an expression of mod ...
30 July 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - A priest in Michoacan seriously wounded
Michoacan (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Agustin Patiño was wounded with 15 stab wounds while he was in the parish house in Briseñas, Michoacan, by 3 criminals who entered with the intention to steal. According to an initial ...
30 July 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Parish priest found dead
San Miguel (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Monday 27 July, the faithful who, through the social networks of Santander, in the municipality of San Miguel, were waiting to attend the 6pm mass, received the news of th ...
29 July 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Campaign: "United for health and for life" - religious groups in support of the health system
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for solidarity: "United for health and life. We are all Gran Vallegrande" takes place led by three Redemptorist priests, with the support of the Evangelical churches, the Medical ...
28 July 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops' message for the national holiday:"It is necessary to assume responsibilities and commitments"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 27 July, Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, president of the Episcopal Conference, celebrated Mass and Te Deum in the Cathedral of Trujillo, on the occasion of the 199th anniversary of the Independenc ...
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