America

• 27 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Annual pilgrimage of young people: more than 32 thousand pray for peace Guanajuato (Agenzia Fides) - "Brotherhood and prayer are the antidotes against social evils that destroy lives, families and businesses", said His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, in front of abou ...
• 27 January 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA – The Bishops' appeal before the vote on February 2: Choose the deputies with attention Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica have asked the faithful to pay close attention to the choice of the deputies rather than the President, in the upcoming election on Febr ...
• 24 January 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – For the Archbishop of Caracas: "the closure of a newspaper is something terrible! We cannot sink into the darkness of misinformation" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, has asked the national government to mediate to solve the problem of the shortage of paper for printing newspapers, pointing out that the ...
• 24 January 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Democracy and respect for the human person: the Church encourages us to prepare for the vote Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement entitled "Pastoral Guidelines in the context of the Congress and the Andean Parliament elections in 2014", the Bishop of Cúcuta, His Exc. Mgr. Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz, said that ...
• 23 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The important role of the media in promoting peace in the Tierra Caliente Apatzingán (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the difficult situation that the region of Tierra Caliente is experiencing, the Bishop of the Diocese of Apatzingán, His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Velazquez Patiño, speaking to reporters ...
• 23 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church engaged "with the victims of violence and in rebuilding the social fabric" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico call on the authorities to solve the problem of violence that is plaguing the community in different parts of the country, so that people "can live in peace". The note ...
• 23 January 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Prisons do not re-educate and are in crisis: intervention of the Archbishop of Rio Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, His Exc. Mgr. Orani João Tempesta, recently appointed Cardinal by Pope Francis, has questioned the Brazilian prison system, highlighting the fact that t ...
• 22 January 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Andean Countries together for the XIII Regional Meeting of the Youth Ministry Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From January 22 to January 26, the XIII Regional Meeting of the Andean Youth Ministry will be held in Cochabamba (Bolivia). According to the note sent to Fides Agency, the aim is to reflect ...
• 22 January 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A human life is worth more than anything else Chichigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, expressed severe criticism regarding the intervention of the police in Chichigalpa last weekend, du ...
• 21 January 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - In prayer for harmony among the peoples, pending the judgment of the Hague Tacna (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the final judgment of the International Court of Justice in The Hague with regards to the limits of the maritime border between Peru and Chile, the Bishop of Tacna and Moquegua ( ...
• 20 January 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops gathered in Plenary Assembly Lima (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn Mass concelebrated by the Bishops of all the dioceses of Peru, the 103rd Plenary Assembly of the Peruvian Bishops starts today, January 20 until Friday, January 24th at the headquarte ...
• 20 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – The police officer accused of threatening the clergy has been stopped Mexico (Agenzia Fides) - The Attorney General of the Federal District of Mexico has stopped Juan Carlos "N", a police agent of the municipal of Tultitlán (State of Mexico), accused of extortion to members of the Concili ...
• 20 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Before the image of the Virgin of Candelaria one prays for the return of peace Michoacán (Agenzia Fides) – During the Mass celebrated yesterday, Sunday, January 19, at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Apatzingán for the arrival of the image of the Virgin of Candelaria (that comes from the cha ...
• 20 January 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - 3,800 children and young people killed in the last four years Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - According to the NGO Casa Alianza, which protects minors in Latin America, from January 2010 to December 2013, 3,800 children and young people under 23 years of age were murdered in Honduras ...
• 17 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appeal for the people of Tierra Caliente, "chastised by the scourge of fratricidal and absurd violence" Michoacán (Agenzia Fides) - "Those who have followed the escalation of violence in Michoacán know perfectly well that the bloody war among criminals, with wounded bodies and horror, was the conclusion of the classic 'n ...