America

• 23 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The First American Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence thenestnjdneatndjenjndjetnjdneatn Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 23, the First Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (IAM), begins and will end on Sunday 25th. The congress will be held at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - On a mission in the vulnerable suburbs of society: migrants, itinerant people, displaced ... City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 delegates, including Bishops, priests, religious women and lay people, all engaged in pastoral work with migrants, refugees and displaced persons, the apostolate of the Sea, and touri ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Three thousand children involved in drug trafficking: alarm of the local authorities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of 2014, 3000 children and 37 000 adults have been involved in micro drug trafficking and have been arrested. According to estimates by the Colombian National Police, the phen ...
• 22 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Dialogue between the Church and government begins: "In search of new horizons for a better Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) met yesterday afternoon, 21 May, in the Apostolic Nunciature, with the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, paving the way for dialog ...
• 21 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The "Jubilee USA Network" campaign for finance at the service of man Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe that the support of the Holy See and of the leaders of the Church throughout the world is crucial to put pressure on governments": This is what representatives of "Jubilee USA N ...
• 21 May 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Dialogue resumes, but we need facts not promises Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Foreign Ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the apostolic Nuncio in Caracas highlighted the willingness of the government of Venezuela and of the participants at th ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church on the eve of talks with the government: problems are not solved by ignoring them Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is ready to open dialogue with the Government of Nicaragua: the first meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21 (see Fides 09/05/2014; 14/05/2014). On Sunday aft ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Integrating Mayan disabled children by developing their artistic skills Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Scorned and very often segregated into their homes, hundreds of Mayan disabled children and adolescents are a tool to overcome discrimination and increase their creativity in developing their art ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Violence in parts of Central America also encourages children to emigrate alone San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Bishops of the United States of America, Mexico and Central America meet to discuss major issues related to the complex phenomenon of migration. The meeting, whic ...
• 19 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Tumaco: "here the State has not existed for years, childhood is abandoned to its fate" Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - "In Tumaco children are taken away by the FARC and criminal gangs, they are simply taken away for their war": is the complaint by His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo Giron Higuita, OCD, Bishop of Tumaco, who p ...
• 17 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Historic agreement in the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, May 16, the session on the third point in the talks between the representatives of the Peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC ...
• 17 May 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Ceramic workshop in prison, with the help of the local Church Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The prison in the city of La Oroya in the central Andes of Peru, has opened a ceramic workshop equipped with the machinery required for all stages of the production process. The inauguration ce ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Willingness to continue dialogue between the Government and the Church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - While the Bishops of Mexico are in the Vatican for the Ad Limina Apostolorum visit, the Secretary General of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM ) informs Fides of having received, on May ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three years of Martelly’s presidency, among acclaim and requests for resignation Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haitian President Michel Martelly celebrated his third year of the presidential office on May 14 by listing a series of successes in front of hundreds of supporters, while the opposition ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Basic Ecclesial Communities: the new face of the Church at the service of justice and peace El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - From July 10 to 13, the XI National Meeting of the Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC) will be held in the Diocese of El Alto, with the slogan: "To build a new face of the Church from the BEC. For ...