America
13 January 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Dialogue to end the crisis: the exhortation of the Episcopal Conference
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "Ethical and spiritual renewal before the crisis", the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela has published a pastoral exhortation articulated in 24 points that invites Christians to r ...
13 January 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still controversy about the transoceanic canal: the Bishops call for clarity
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Improvised" and "without being verified technically": is how the president of the Academy of Sciences of Nicaragua, Manuel Ortega Hegg, defined the "change" in the route of the transoceanic can ...
12 January 2015
AMERICA/HAITI - Agreement between the President and opposition: elections in 2015
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Just 5 years after the earthquake, the President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, and about twenty political leaders yesterday, January 11, signed the agreement to carry out elections in 2015. ...
12 January 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Recalling the earthquake in Haiti with the testimony of Zilda Arns
Curitiba (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10 about 30,000 Brazilians participated in a ceremony and a Mass in the stadium of the city of Curitiba, Paraná state (southern Brazil) to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the e ...
12 January 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Shops are empty: Cardinal Urosa calls on the government to act quickly and urges to remain calm
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Archbishop of Caracas, Jorge Urosa Savino, urged Venezuelans to remain calm before the critical situation they are experiencing regarding the lack of food, and urged the government to s ...
9 January 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Tuberculosis and Chagas disease out of control in the Chaco
Resistencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the Argentine province of Chaco, tuberculosis and Chagas disease are out of control. According to data from the Institute of Social, Economic Research and Citizen Policy (ISEPCi), about 5 ...
9 January 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - The priests of Guerrero "continue to preach the Gospel as always" despite threats and blackmail,
Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church welcomes the new year with great concern due to the wave of violence and insecurity in the state of Guerrero: this is what the Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chil ...
8 January 2015
AMERICA/HAITI – 5 years after the earthquake the Catholic Church is helping Haiti to recover
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 12 people from Haiti arrived in Rome yesterday, January 7, where they will attend the meeting to be held at the Vatican on Saturday, January 10 on the fifth anniversary of ...
8 January 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Assembly of Bishops: dialogue to end the crisis and the necessity to find agreed solutions
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of Pope Francis in favor of the family with concrete gestures and with the III Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the canonization of two Popes, the anniversary of the ...
7 January 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - "The jungle law" does not stop theft
Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) - After the lynching which took place on January 5 in the village of La Cantera (Puebla, Mexico), where one person was killed and three others were seriously injured by locals, the Bishop of the ...
7 January 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The "National Catholic Schools Week 2015" will be observed in dioceses around the country from January 25–31. This year’s theme, “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and S ...
5 January 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week 2015: "We are one family"
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - National Migration Week 2015 is taking place from January 4–10, organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’(USCCB), to raise awareness about the hardships faced by migrants.
"T ...
5 January 2015
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Open your eyes and ears": warning of the church for the election campaign
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 4 Mgr. Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D., Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) in his homily told the Bolivian community not to be brainwahed ...
2 January 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - "The street is my family": Christmas season: love for children, youth and marginalized people
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Street children spent the holiday season alone, gathered in the cold in Mexico City, marginalized, forgotten, excluded from society and surrounded by filth, rats and roaches. Poverty and vio ...
2 January 2015
AMERICA - Drastic increase of children who try to escape from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Children in Central America find themselves living in one of the most dangerous places . Children under 18 years of age are more likely to die murdered more than any other cause. According to the ...
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