America

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  13 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - CAM 5: the participation of children in the Church's mission is more and more current and valid Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "On May 19 we celebrated the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the Holy Childhood Society. It is important to celebrate this anniversary not only to commemorate a past rich ...
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  13 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Message of CAM 5: "Listen to the cry of those suffering in America" Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "When a member suffers, the whole body suffers": says the statement released during the V American Missionary Congress (CAM 5), an expression of the entire assembly and publicly ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - President of the Pontifical Mission Societies encounters the Bishops present at CAM 5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of 11 July, archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, secretary adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mis ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Dal Toso at CAM 5: “announcing Christ who died and is risen at the heart of mission” Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – “I am most grateful to be here this morning among you to open this American Mission Congress. Let us allow the motto which convokes us ‘America in mission: the Gospel is j ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Filoni at the inauguration of CAM 5: “solution efficiency is not the right logic to follow” Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – “This Congress re-connects with the one celebrated in Maracaibo and with previous Congresses representing significant steps in missionary commitment of this great Continent ...
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  11 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "We will not abandon the Dialogue" despite the aggression and hostility of the government Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, decided today (10 July), to continue to provide the service that the government has asked us, as mediators and witnesses of the national Dia ...
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  11 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Filoni opens CAM 5: "Missionary work has a heart, a center, a name: Jesus" Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "What is missionary work?". Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Special Envoy of the Holy Father Francis at the celebrations ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The missionary cross with the relic of the Blessed Nazaria Ignacia "symbol" of CAM 5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - Santa Cruz is one of the nine departments that make up Bolivia. Situated in the eastern part of the country, it is the largest and most populated, occupying a third of the Bolivi ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priest killed to rob his van Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - The parish priest of the Nuestra Senora de Fatima parish, in the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (Venezuela), don Iraluis José Garcia Escobar, 38, was killed yesterday afternoon, Monday 9 July ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes, bishops and priests attacked inside the church: "Never seen anything like this in Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) – During the weekend, a lot of blood was shed in the area of Carazo, with an unknown number of deaths, 9 or maybe more, due to the result of the increasingly violent repression of the government ...
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  9 July 2018
  AMERICA/HAITI - After violent demonstrations 2 people have died, the increase in the price of petrol has been suspended Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After violent protests in the capital and in the city of Cap-Haitien, in the north of the country, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 July, the government of Haiti announced the suspension of a fuel ...
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  9 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: families and the Church of Santa Cruz open the door of their home and their heart to the delegates Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - The delegates who will take part in the Fifth American Missionary Congress (CAM 5), which opens tomorrow, Tuesday 10 July, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, will end on Saturd ...
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  7 July 2018
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The project of several religious orders against trafficking: the phenomenon changes face but does not stop Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27, the agreement that allows the Adoratrices, the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Oblates of the Most Holy Redeemer to work ...
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  6 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: the main missionary institutes born in America Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Fifth American Missionary Congress (CAM 5) which will be celebrated in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, from 10 to 14 July (see Fides 3 and 4/7/2018), here is some informati ...
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  6 July 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) begin meetings regarding isolated natives Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of members from Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, yesterday morning the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) began a meeting in the city of Puerto Maldonado, in Peru, to pla ...