America

• 10 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops' appeal: "No more corruption and violence! Thorough investigation is needed" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, November 7, in Chilpancingo, the Attorney General, Jesús Murillo, met the parents of the 43 students missing in Ayotzinapa (see Fides 10/10/2014), and told them the confession of ...
• 10 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The poor and the marginalized become producers of their food Jalisco (Agenzia Fides) - El Vergel is a community in the region of Durango, located three hours from Pijijiapan, Chiapas. To get there you have to cross over 30 miles of dirt roads, with very dangerous slopes, that beco ...
• 7 November 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops in defense of indigenous people appeal to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights Salto del Guairá (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Paraguay, through the Indigenous Pastoral, has announced that it will appeal to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights if the State does not ensure th ...
• 7 November 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Education, communication and drug trafficking: the Bishops prepare three pastoral Letters Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With a Mass and greetings from Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia, the Assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bolivia (CEB) opened yesterday, November 6. ...
• 6 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Ecumenical Initiative: 43 hours of fasting and prayer for the 43 students of Ayotzinapa Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - 43 hours of prayer and fasting for 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa (see Fides 10/10/2014) ends today, November 6. The "Ecumenical Day of solidarity" with the families of the missin ...
• 6 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Cali is suffering a pandemic of violence", denounces Mgr. Monsalve Mejía Cali (Agenzia Fides) - "Cali is suffering a pandemic of violence", denounced the Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia, with regards to the alarming increase in homicides in the region. The poli ...
• 5 November 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The fight against drugs should be considered a State matter Posadas (Agenzia Fides) – Drugs are a scourge that is part of the death structure, and is "an evil that is growing rapidly in our country, it is uncontrolled, produces silence and fear, forces citizens to be mere spect ...
• 5 November 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops are always close to the 3 and a half million Peruvians away from home Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) has sent a message to the "three and a half million Peruvians who are away from their homeland in search of a better future for themselves and their families ...
• 4 November 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Two thousand secondary school teachers gathered for the XII Education Forum Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - There will be about 2,000 headmasters and secondary school teachers who will gather on November 5 to participate in the XII Education Forum whose theme will be "To educate: a passion which ...
• 3 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops to the families of the students missing: "Hope pushes to keep fighting" Guerrero (Agenzia Fides) - "Letter to Families of students killed and kidnapped in Ayotzinapa" is the title of the message of the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Acapulco (Archdiocese of Acapulco, Diocese of Ch ...
• 3 November 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The National Security Council begins San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The "Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Ciudadana y Coexistence" was officially established on October 31, with 70 members, and the work program was decided. There will be meetings every week ...
• 31 October 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Thousands of young people on pilgrimage instead of the "Feast of Hallowen" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For the third year in a row the young people of Arequipa (Peru) prepare to live the "Third Youth Festival for Faith and Life": a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Chapi that will take place t ...
• 30 October 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Drugs: "it is urgent to move from concern to action" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Gualeguaychú, His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Eduardo Lozano, who is President of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral, acknowledged that recently there has been t ...
• 30 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The families of the students who disappeared will be received by the President, Pope Francis asks for prayers Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - "Today I would like to raise a prayer and draw close in our hearts to the people of Mexico, who are suffering from the loss of these students and many similar problems. May our hearts be cl ...
• 29 October 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Solidarity and concrete evangelization: meeting of diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Reyes (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicariate of Reyes hosts the meeting of the diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Bolivia, from October 27 to 31. The note sent to Agenzia Fides informs tha ...