America
18 May 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of the border dioceses: There is only one crisis, which is socio-environmental
Corrientes (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the progressive degradation and the threat to our planet and to human beings as an integral part of the planetary ecosystem, we assume the complexity of the situation that affects ever ...
17 May 2016
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Thirty thousand Missionary Childhood and Adolescence groups celebrate their Day
Maranhão (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Auxiliary Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão and President of the National Missionary Council (Comina), invites all Missionary Childhood and Adolescen ...
17 May 2016
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Danilo Medina wins the election
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Although 44% of seats are to be scrutinized, Danilo Medina, current President of the Dominican Republic, has been declared the winner of the elections.
"What has happened is a victory of ...
17 May 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Five suicides concerning young people in 24 hours, "we must do something urgently" says the Bishop
Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "What we want to know is why? What is happening to young people? What are the problems that lead to suicide?" asks His Exc. Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, Bishop of Ciudad Juarez. The ...
16 May 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Missionary Congress in Bucaramanga: "Colombian missionary Church goes forth"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the Colombian Church in missionary going forth" is the theme of the XII National Missionary Congress of Colombia to be held in Bucaramanga from 26 to 29 May. The organisers of the congres ...
16 May 2016
AMERICA/ECUADOR - A month after the earthquake: religious celebrations while the emergency continues
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the earthquake that has isolated Ecuador's northern coastal area, 120 thousand children are in urgent need of temporary spaces where to attend school lessons. The earthquake on Apr ...
16 May 2016
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Thousands of Cubans arrive in El Paso, the Church calls for solidarity
El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Cubans, who were arrested earlier in Panama, are arriving in El Paso, Texas, border area in the United States, and now this city is on the verge of collapsing and there are no more ...
14 May 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tense situation, electoral authorities delays for a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro's term
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Venezuela is heading toward a violent confrontation if those who have power do not leave" said His Exc. Mgr. Roberto Luckert Leon, Archbishop of Coro and President of the "Justice and Peace" Co ...
14 May 2016
AMERICA/PERU - The project on "Prevention of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants" begins
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Commission of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference has launched the project "Prevention of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants in Peru: Strengthening of social n ...
13 May 2016
AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "Yesterday Aysen, today Chiloé, tomorrow there will be other crises"
Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis in the Los Lagos region presents a national project which becomes more and more a discussion topic, because the development of this social system, essentially neoliberal, instead of p ...
13 May 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The crisis worsens, the first attempts to leave the country towards the Netherlands Antilles
Willemstad (Agenzia Fides) - Angel Ramirez, President of the Red Cross of Curacao, the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, which is situated in front of Venezuela, said that they are preparing to receive other Ve ...
12 May 2016
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Presidential and legislative elections: may it be a peaceful and democratic day for the Church
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, His Exc. Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, and the Bishop of Puerto Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro, expressed the ho ...
12 May 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops of neighboring dioceses of Colombia and Venezuela: it is urgent to re-open the border
Tachira (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal (Venezuela), His Exc. Mgr. Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Cucuta (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr.Victor Manuel Ochoa, me ...
11 May 2016
AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "The crisis in Chiloé is not only an economic problem, but social"
Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - The demand for fishermen "not to fall into the temptation to sell their conscience for a few thousand pesos that will be only bread for today and misery for tomorrow" is what the Apostolic Vicar ...
11 May 2016
AMERICA/CUBA - The Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre has been the patroness of the island for a hundred years
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 10 May, the entire Cuban people celebrated the centenary of the proclamation of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre as Patroness of Cuba. Fides received several testimonies from missi ...
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