America
22 June 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church involved in the "crusade for life", to help vulnerable and migrant families
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 21 June, from the minor Basilica of San Lorenzo Mártir, Cathedral of the archdiocese of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Mgr Sergio Gualberti presided over the Mass concelebrated by Mgr. Re ...
22 June 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years ago the Bishops went to Masaya to be close to the people and avoid another massacre
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body" (Mt 10,28). Two years ago, on June 21, 2018, the Bishops went to the city of Masaya to be close to the people, pray with the people and avoid anothe ...
20 June 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Is the freedom of movement of goods worth more than that of people?
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Brazil celebrates World Refugee Day with a series of programs and debates on the situation of people forced to leave their land and country that concludes the "Migrant's Week". " ...
20 June 2020
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops: a look at those who have lost their bread, their roof and their jobs, even if they are migrants
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Commission for Migrants and Itinerant People (CEMI) has expressed its desire to make visible the vulnerable situation of refugees and migrants, in a message for World Refugee ...
19 June 2020
AMERICA/JAMAICA - Appointment of the Bishop of Mandeville
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Mandeville, Jamaica, the Reverend John Derek Persaud, of the clergy of Georgetown, currently vicar general, vicar for the clergy an ...
19 June 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Humanitarian catastrophe" in Brazil for the pandemic: complaint by the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Tension between Brazil and Venezuela grows after last Tuesday, June 16, the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, denounced the government of Jair Bolsonaro "for crim ...
19 June 2020
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - More than 80 prisoners receive food assistance thanks to the solidarity of the Church
Coro (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Coro continues its social work adapting it to the reality of confinement and the economic crisis that the country is experiencing. Thanks to the support received by Adveniat and ...
18 June 2020
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Vocational Month: towards a new time of evangelization
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, June is Vocational Month in the Church in Uruguay and Mgr. Luis Eduardo González, Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo and at the head of the Vocations and Ministries Department of ...
18 June 2020
AMERICA/HAITI - Despite the pandemic, Haitians celebrate Our Lady of Perpetual Help, invoking her to get out of the crisis
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti experiences the worst historical moment of recent times, for economic and social stability, to which is added the health emergency, which affects not only the poorest country in Ame ...
18 June 2020
AMERICA/CHILE - A second group of Bolivians return to their country thanks to the intervention of the Church
Copiapó (Agenzia Fides) - This time 42 Bolivian citizens returned to their country on the night of Tuesday 16 June. The journey was made possible thanks to the commitment of the Bishopric of Copiapó (Chile) and to two ...
17 June 2020
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are all Amazon": Mgr. Ojea calls for anti-Covid emergency measures also for the inhabitants of the Amazon
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of San Isidro and president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mgr. Oscar Vicente Ojea, participated in a virtual meeting in which, together with the specialists, talked abou ...
17 June 2020
AMERICA/CANADA - The Bishops praise the non-prescription proposal for crimes of abuse
Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of Justice of Quebec, Sonia LeBel, has recently presented a bill to modify the civil code and, in particular, to ensure that civil actions in the field of sexual violence, child abus ...
16 June 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Corpus Christi Mass in the Cathedral of Lima behind closed doors, but with 5 thousand photos of the dead for Covid-19
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Photos of people killed by COVID-19 covered the benches and walls of the Cathedral of Lima on Sunday for a Corpus Christi mass in tribute to the victims of the coronavirus, officiated by the archbi ...
16 June 2020
AMERICA/PERU - "Give them some food" (Mt 14,16): initiative to feed 10,000 people a day
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the health emergency that we are experiencing for Covid-19, the economic crisis is seriously affecting the whole world and Peru is no stranger to this reality. Poverty in the country worsens ...
15 June 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the pandemic, the 35th Migrants' Week: "Where is your brother and sister?"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is your brother, your sister?" is the question that, taking inspiration from the biblical verse (cf. Gn 4,9), constitutes the theme of the 35th edition of the Week of the Migrant, which ...
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