America

• 25 September 2014
  AMERICA - Indigenous people continue to be the poorest in Latin America Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent study prepared by the World Bank, a child born in an indigenous place in Latin America is twice as likely to live in poverty and three times to live in a state of poverty com ...
• 25 September 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Violence does not stop due to a mega project in the indigenous territories: 11 dead and several wounded San Juan Sacatepéquez (Agenzia Fides) - The government has declared a curfew in the district of Sacatepéquez, where indigenous peoples have suffered violence once again in their territories. According to a statement of ...
• 24 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Campaign 2014: One cannot combat human trafficking without combatting poverty and inequality Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, Sept. 22, the Pontifical Mission Societies of Brazil (PMS) presented, in a press conference, the materials prepared for the Missionary Campaign of the missionary month of October 201 ...
• 24 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found dead in the river Balsas Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Attorney General of Guerrero state, Mexico, has opened an investigation into the death of the parish priest of Arcelia, Father José Acuña Asención Osorio, whose body was found in the ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - "Gold fever" increases human trafficking and sexual exploitation Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Childhood is a treasure that is worth much more than gold karat" is the title of the campaign promoted by the NGO Anesvad to denounce the reality in which people live in the Peruvian region of Mad ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Social movements denounce the failure of the UN Mission, protests in the streets Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Protests were held in the capital of Haiti against the presence of MINUSTAH (Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Estabilización en Haiti) due to its total failure. According to a note ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Public opinion divided on the request for the withdrawal of UNHCR from the country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The news that the Dominican Republic will ask the United Nations to withdraw its Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from the country and its representative ...
• 23 September 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dengue and chikungunya: the most affected age group ranges from 5 to 19 San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - According to recent data provided by the Directorate for Civil Protection of the State of El Salvador, the age groups of people most affected by chikungunya fever in the Country range from ...
• 22 September 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Waiting for the reform, migrant families continue to be divided Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Laredo (Texas, USA), His Exc. Mgr. James Anthony Tamayo, complained that the proposed immigration reform has not yet arrived and the federal authorities are separatin ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Proclaiming the Gospel in an Amazonian context: the challenge for the Bishop of Puerto Leguizamo-Solano Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the reality is quite intercultural, the Catholic Church remains the only institution that enjoys credibility": these are the words expressed by His Exc. Mgr. Joaquin Humberto Pinzón Gü ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The activist who fought for the Amazonian forest, against the deforestation of his land killed Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Edwin Chota, a leader of the Ashaninka community of the High Tamaya, in Peru, was killed along with three other members of his ethnic group, in an area on the border between Brazil and Peru. Edwin ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/URUGUAY – The meeting of the PMS of the American Southern Cone: working together for the mission Ad gentes Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the American Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil), met from 11 to 14 September on the outs ...
• 18 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Elections of October 5: corruption enters the electoral debate Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption scandals involving state oil company Petrobras entered the debate sponsored by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, which was attended by eight of the eleven presidential c ...
• 18 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - XV national meeting of the pastoral care of human mobility: "Listening to the migrant brother is like listening to the voice of Jesus" Yucatán (Agenzia Fides) - "Listening to the migrant brother is like listening to the voice of Jesus. Hence our mission is to restore the dignity of the migrant ... Today, the agent of the pastoral, priest, religious or ...
• 17 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Join forces for joint action: establishment of the "Red Eclesial Pan-Amazon" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil the meeting that led to the establishment of the "Red Eclesial Pan-Amazon" was held in recent days, organized by the Department ...