America
28 January 2017
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Jubilee USA Network coalition: Puerto Rico needs significant debt relief
Washington DC (Agenzia Fides) - Puerto Rico's "control" board meets January 28 as the island's financial crisis deepens. In a January 18 letter, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico noted that the ...
27 January 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops of Mexico: "pain and rejection for the construction of this wall"
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our sorrow and rejection with regards to the construction of this wall, and respectfully invite all to reflect on the ways through which we can ensure security, development, work ...
27 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "There is already a bloodbath in Venezuela" denounces Mgr. Santana
Comillas (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not see why our people have to suffer so much", said the Archbishop of Maracaibo, His Exc. Mgr. Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I. with tears in his eyes, at a conference organized in ...
26 January 2017
AMERICA/BELIZE - Resignation of the Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, in Belize, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Dorick McGowan Wright. The Holy F ...
26 January 2017
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Report of the American States Organization disappoints many, even the Church
Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - "The lords of the American States Organization (OAS the acronym in Spanish) are politicians that adapt themselves to the circumstances, they are not defenders of freedom and justice; they disguis ...
26 January 2017
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Religious leaders ask the UN to mediate between the government and gangs
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez told the press that the leaders of the Lutheran and Evangelical Churches of El Salvador will ask the United Nations to mediate between the Salvadoran governmen ...
25 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The tears of the people and the future of young people at the basis of the dialogue between opposition and government
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The main points to be discussed at the negotiating table are the questions of the people, the tears of the people, what families want to offer to give young people a path with a future", said t ...
25 January 2017
AMERICA/CHILE - Araucania: final report of the Commission led by Mgr. Vargas
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In a public statement, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, thanked the Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Vargas, and the members of the Advisory Co ...
24 January 2017
AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops on the new public education program
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The basic principles of education in the country should follow the provisions of the General Education Law and the Constitution of the country.
Recognizing the many positive aspects of the progr ...
24 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Instrumentum laboris for the 2018 American Missionary Congress is ready
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - After celebrating the two international Symposiums of Missiology in Puerto Rico and Uruguay, the Theological Commission has prepared the Instrumentum laboris which will guide the work of the Fif ...
24 January 2017
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Denunciation of violence against children employed as domestic servants without pay
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Six out of ten children have been victims of different types of violence in Paraguay, caused in particular by the environment surrounding them. This is what emerged from the complaint of the Co ...
24 January 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Chávez Botello to reporters: "nourish the social conscience, because it is very weak"
Antequera (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca (Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Chávez Botello, anticipating the feast of St. Francis de Sales, Patron of journalists, wanted to celebrate the feast yes ...
23 January 2017
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - International Festival on child labor
Mar de Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The initiative "Building Cinema: International Film Festival on Work" has announced the opening of registrations regarding the fourth edition of the international short film competition and ...
23 January 2017
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Rosa Chavez: "Violence is not the solution to the problem of gangs"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, yesterday expressed in the usual press conference on Sunday, his concern for disputes among the main political forc ...
23 January 2017
AMERICA/PERU - "Tired of feeling sorry for ourselves", young people overcome poverty through education
Manchay (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of feeling sorry for ourselves", said Father José Chuquillanqui, pastor of Manchay, district of Pachacamac, in the course of the Peruvian program Diálogo de Fe. A note sent to Fi ...
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