America

• 
  19 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First meeting of Bishops with the new President: food crisis, drug addiction and prisons Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The urgent social needs that the country presents, in particular "the serious food situation, the growing demand for drugs by young people and the serious situation of prisons" were the sub ...
• 
  18 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For many, migration has become the only option to save one's life Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "New faces, very dynamic. Migration processes in Mexico" is the title of the report presented in Madrid on the occasion of the International Day of Migrants, which is celebrated today by Entrecul ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Life is sacred": Bishops outraged by the rules on the decriminalization of abortion San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Net refusal and indignation" for the signing of the so-called "technical regulation" on the decriminalization of abortion by President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, was expressed by the Episcopal ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Reaching out to migrants: joint initiative of the frontier dioceses of Brownsville and Matamoros Matamoros (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa del Migrante San Juan Diego and San Francisco, in the city of Matamoros, the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering the southern part of the US state of Texas, received three tons of ...
• 
  16 December 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' message: "We look forward to building a united Bolivia, in the God of life, above differences" Tarija (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their Extraordinary Assembly, held in Tarija on 11 and 12 December, the Bishops of Bolivia sent a message of peace to the Bolivian people for Christmas. The Bishops say they find mo ...
• 13 December 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Cesar Gustavo Baez Amarilla, CSSR Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 3, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Cesar Gustavo Baez Amarilla, of the Congregation of the Mo ...
• 
  13 December 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops: the right to freedom of expression does not cancel respect for people and their values Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Bishops Conference of Brazil (CNBB) rejects the recent events that, in the name of freedom of expression and artistic creativity, deeply attack the Christian faith. To ridicule th ...
• 
  12 December 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - "For a fair and worthy Chile": meeting on the challenges of evangelization in the current situation Valparaiso (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral office of the diocese of Valparaiso and Caritas Valparaíso, have promoted a "Diocesan dialogue meeting for a fair and worthy Chile", which will be held on Saturday, December 14, ...
• 
  12 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First speech by new President Fernández: "We must get out of this situation with solidarity" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The new President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, recalled several expressions of Pope Francis in his first speech before the Legislative Assembly. The leader of the Frente de Todos, who ...
• 
  11 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 10 million pilgrims are expected from all over the world for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Everything is ready to celebrate the 488th anniversary of the apparitions of Santa Maria of Guadalupe al Tepeyac. According to data released by the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City and b ...
• 
  11 December 2019
  AMERICA - 12 December: Continental Day of Prayer for Peace, entrusted to Our Lady of Guadalupe Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American Episcopal Council (Celam) invites the Bishops' Conferences, ecclesial organizations, religious communities, apostolic movements and the entire people of God to join the "Conti ...
• 
  10 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception with the Nicaraguan community of Miami Miami (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Silvio José Baez, Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, who currently resides in the Vatican, was invited by the parish of Sant'Agata in Miami (USA) to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conceptio ...
• 
  10 December 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Lasallian missionary brother James Alfred Miller beatified, "martyr for education" Huehuetenango (Agenzia Fides) - "A martyr, an excellent educator and evangelical defender of the poor and oppressed, who became one of us and for us gave his life": this is how Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, B ...
• 
  9 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New repression against the Church: the Bishop of Esteli denounces "the pain of a people" Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the most heartfelt Marian feast in the Central American country, the Immaculate Conception, the Catholic Church once again denounced the harsh repression against the suffering peopl ...
• 
  7 December 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Farmers expelled from their lands, attacked and threatened: support from organizations and the Church Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The farmers of El Seibo arrived in the capital more than two months ago asking for a definitive intervention by the authorities to resolve their situation. "We are talking about 240 peas ...