America
10 July 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Indigenous Missionary Council denounces the presidential vetoes: hatred and violence against indigenous peoples
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) has publicly expressed its repudiation of the presidential vetoes expressed in the bill 1142/2020, approved by the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal S ...
9 July 2020
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 3, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila, of the Archdiocesan clergy of Carac ...
9 July 2020
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social Week 2020: "In a creative way, we must ask ourselves: how can we get out of all this?"
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Looking to the future with creativity": the second day of the 2020 Social Week took place in Argentina on this theme, which is held virtually because of the pandemic. On Tuesday, July 7 Dr ...
8 July 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P., currently Apostolic Administrator of the same Vicariate, as Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurima ...
8 July 2020
AMERICA - Covid 19: support to Nicaraguan bishops by Central American bishops
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Central America has given strong support to Nicaraguan bishops who speak and act to protect the most vulnerable population facing the Covid-19 pandemic. In a message, the Pres ...
7 July 2020
AMERICA/HAITI - Bishops on new decrees: "they threaten the foundations of our society, coexistence, culture, faith and Christian morality"
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In a note signed by the members of the Episcopal Conference of Haiti, the Bishops denounce the publication of the latest decrees of President Jovenel Moïse, which clearly attack the cult ...
6 July 2020
AMERICA/ECUADOR - America's most popular Andean Marian pilgrimage suspended due to Covid-19 after 150 years
Loja (Agenzia Fides) - The civil, ecclesiastical, military and police authorities of the city and of the province of Loja met to start working on the biosecurity protocol, for the transfer of the Image of the Virgin of E ...
6 July 2020
AMERICA/CHILE - School after the pandemic: strengthening the school-family relationship
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - One of Chile's biggest problems is Public Education: for decades, different government systems have managed to propose new methods and different forms to restructure the country's education sys ...
4 July 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - "We cannot get used to crime and violence and be indifferent to death": the diocese in the face of the massacre of Irapuato
Guanajuato (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest massacre of the six-year period", "Unacceptable crimes", "Yet another battle and terrible massacre", "One of the worst events in the history of Mexico", "Justice is urgently nee ...
3 July 2020
AMERICA - Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico: together to involve sick missionaries in their mission projects
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 8 July, the leaders of the missionary and elderly sick groups from Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico will have a virtual meeting to share the work they will do during the confinement d ...
3 July 2020
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Assembly of the Episcopal Conference, in a virtual way but with an analysis of the reality of Venezuela
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On this occasion, the Venezuelan Episcopate will meet virtually, thus respecting the prevention measures established for the Covid-19 pandemic. The ordinary plenary Assembly of the CEV number CX ...
2 July 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "In addition to doing mission, we are mission": the invitation of Mgr. Centellas in the pandemic
Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Ricardo Centellas, Archbishop of Sucre has urged to take on the spirit of co-responsibility, fraternity and mission in our life of faith, and the challenge of renewing ourselves at this mom ...
2 July 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Dramatic lack of oxygen in hospitals for Covid-19 patients, the Church in the emergency aid campaign
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peru, with more than 288 thousand cases of Covid-19 and until yesterday registered about 10 thousand deaths, is also experiencing a parallel crisis that it cannot solve: the lack of oxygen in hospi ...
1 July 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, His Exc. Mgr. Waldo Ruben Barrionuevo Ramirez
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 27, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc. Mgr. Waldo Ruben Barrionuevo Ramirez, CSsR, Apostolic ...
1 July 2020
AMERICA - CELAM announces the birth of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, and President of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), Cardinal Claudio Hummes, announced ...
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