America

• 26 March 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Brazilian Church accompanies the World Cup inviting to combat trafficking Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB), through its Commission for the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility, has published a message titled "Play for Life" in view of the World Cup, in ...
• 26 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – The government of Ortega ready to dialogue with the Church Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) has announced that the government of Daniel Ortega has accepted the invitation to dialogue. "This request received a positive response on Tuesday 24 ...
• 25 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Dialogue is "necessary" to stop violence Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Los Teques (Venezuela), His Exc. Mgr. Ramón Ovidio Perez Morales, proposed the Venezuelan seat of the Episcopate as a meeting place between the opposition and ...
• 24 March 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Pierre for the 50th anniversary of the Diocese of Veracruz: "Re-launch evangelization" Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop Christopher Pierre, presided over the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Veracruz (Mexico), and during the celebr ...
• 24 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Salvadorans commemorate the assassination of Mgr. Romero, in view of his beatification San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Salvadorans today commemorate 34 years since the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on 24 March 1980. The commemorative celebrations already s ...
• 21 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops, missionaries, believers from all over the country: we want peace! Margarita (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church will always be ready to act as a mediator, to work and above all to continue to contribute to peace: is what was said by the Bishop of the Diocese of Margarita, His Exc. Mg ...
• 21 March 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishop of Chimbote obligated to special security measures Chimbote (Agenzia Fides ) - For the high rate of insecurity in the region of Ancash (500 kilometers north of the capital of Peru), the Ministry of Interior has organized adequate security measures for the Bishop of the D ...
• 20 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – Dialogue is closer and closer: President Ortega has received the Bishops’ letter Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has received the letter on behalf of the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), which states that the Church is ready to dialogue with ...
• 20 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Teachers' strike still continues in the capital Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3 million students in the capital are not attending lessons because teachers are still on strike, which began on March 5. The Bishop of the Diocese of Mar del Plata, His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Elections 2014: the Church asks the newly-elected President for an "attitude of dialogue" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - While the Agencies spread the news of the election of the newly-elected President of El Salvador, candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), Salvador Sanchez Ceren ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "the Church is ready to dialogue with the President" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Newly-elected Cardinal José Leopoldo Brenes Solórzano, Archbishop of Managua, said that the Catholic Church is ready to dialogue with President Daniel Ortega only when he decides to sit down w ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Heavy rains have caused deaths and injuries in the Beni area, the lack of food is worrying Beni (Agenzia Fides) - Many families are still isolated in the Beni area, due to heavy rains. Fides is in contact with some missionaries who, through social networks, are able to inform us on the terrible situation that ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Teachers’ strike must be solved with students in the classroom", asks the Bishop of Mar del Plata Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Mar del Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Marino, has publicly asked "the teachers’ strike to be solved with students in the classroom". The note sent to Fides Ag ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Elections on October 26, the President thanks the Church for the mediation Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After more than a month of tense dialogue, Cardinal Chibly Langlois, who has been invited to serve as a mediator in a national political crisis (see Fides 25/2/2014; 14/3/2014), announced ...
• 15 March 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The complaint of a Bishop: "Corruption strangles bean farmers" Durango (Agenzia Fides) - A bishop defends small bean farmers, the backbone of domestic agriculture, that suffer from abuse by private wholesalers, and because of the corruption of the government bodies responsible for c ...