America

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  3 August 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Father Peytrequín, new continental coordinator of the PMS: "I dream of an 'outgoing' America" San Josè (Agenzia Fides) - "I dream of an America that is more and more 'outgoing', that promotes the mission ad gentes and inter gentes first of all from the particular Churches. I dream of greater missionary cooperati ...
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  2 August 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Faced with the escalation of violence in Apartadó: prayers for peace and reconciliation, symbolic acts of rejection Apartadó (Agenzia Fides) - "No reason justifies violence and its consequences on peoples, institutions and families": is reiterated in the "communiqué to public opinion and men of good will" of the Diocese of Apartadó ...
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  2 August 2022
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - For the Bishops "freedom of expression and of the press are the fundamental principles of a democratic system" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The concern of the Bishops of Guatemala for the attack on freedom of the press in the country was expressed in a statement from the Bishops' Conference of Guatemala, signed by the Preside ...
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  1 August 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Vocation Month begins, looking to the next Vocation Year on the theme "Vocation: grace and mission" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The mass that will be celebrated today, August 1, at 7 pm, in the Chapel of Our Lady of Aparecida, at the headquarters of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) in Brasilia, will mark the nat ...
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  1 August 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops: " The bread that is asked for all, achieved through their own labor, is a cry for justice" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "To ask for work is to ask that all workers have the right to live with dignity from the fruit of their daily efforts and to deploy their potential and talents to contribute to the growth o ...
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  30 July 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Director of the PMS in French-speaking Canada: "Pope Francis, pilgrim of reconciliation" Montréal (Agenzia Fides) - "Walking with Pope Francis and all our indigenous brothers and sisters made us experience, day after day of the papal visit, how this mission of reconciliation is carried out. The still acute ...
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  30 July 2022
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Dialogue continues, tension has decreased, the Church does not exclude anyone Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "The first fruits of the Single Dialogue Table are taking shape and the climate of tension has considerably decreased in the country", say the Bishops of Panama, who have accepted to be facilitat ...
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  29 July 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Pope to Canadian Catholics: after the "failure", the return to Galilee, back to the "first announcement" Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - In the spiritual deserts of our time, generated by secularism and indifference, it is necessary to "return to Galilee", to meet the Risen Jesus again and "to start again after failure". With this ...
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  29 July 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Men and women religious invited to "responsible and informed discernment" on the new Constitution Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to the communities, and in a personal way to every consecrated person, to participate "in a responsible way in the exercise of discernment that engages us in the process that our ...
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  29 July 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A new initiative on a vocational and missionary theme has been presented Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Sent by the Spirit to the ends of the world" is the theme that will accompany the new vocational and missionary initiative conceived and launched by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in B ...
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  28 July 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops stand in solidarity with police after attacks and killings: "Every fallen policeman is a brother" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our most sincere condolences for the loss of many members of the National Police. We wish to extend this sentiment to all the relatives of the police officers who have fallen in the f ...
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  28 July 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Women and migrants are the main victims of human trafficking; labor slavery on the rise Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In 2013 the General Assembly of the United Nations established that July 30 would be celebrated every year as the World Day to combat human trafficking. The aim was to "create greater awareness ...
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  27 July 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Pope to native peoples: Christ can heal even the "indelible pain" of your wounds Edmonton (Agenzia Fides) - Faith rarely comes "from reading a book alone in a corner", instead, "it spreads within families, transmitted in the language of mothers, in the sweetly lyrical accents of grandmothers". The ...
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  27 July 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - Father Ouellet: "Let us learn from the Pope how to continue our mission of truth, forgiveness and reconciliation" Montréal (Agenzia Fides) - "Walking together": this is the common thread, but also the approach proposed to Canadians on the occasion of the 37th apostolic journey of Pope Francis which is taking place in these days in ...
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  27 July 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The President of Celam: "huge amounts of money for the war instead of investing in combating the causes of the conflicts" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We regret with deep disappointment how huge amounts of money are allocated to war instead of investing in intelligently and completely in the fight against the causes of conflicts", underlined t ...