America

• 8 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A New Hope for street children Pereira (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years the abuse of child labor in Pereira, the Colombian city 250 kilometers west of Bogotá, has greatly diminished thanks to some programs aimed at restoring the human rights of ever ...
• 8 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Mexicali without hunger": campaign to assist 1,500 families Mexicali (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. José Isidro Guerrero Macias, Bishop of the Diocese of Mexicali (Baja California, Mexico), invited the community to join the campaign "Mexicali without hunger". The initiative, ...
• 8 October 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Alarming figures on children who are exploited and sexually abused Managua (Agenzia Fides) - In the last 5 years the rate of minors who are exploited work-wise has increased between 25 and 30% per year. Currently there are 238,000 child workers in Nicaragua. This is what emerges from th ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Church involved in the literacy campaign in the country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina and his wife Candida Montilla de Medina, were witnesses to the signing of the agreement - commitment of the Dominican Episcopal Confe ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – The trafficking of Haitian children towards the Dominican State increases Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The trafficking of Haitian children continues to increase at an alarming rate on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Local authorities, human rights organizations and civil soc ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The family at the center of missionary October Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "Missionary Uruguay share your faith. Go, build , confess", even Uruguay prepares to celebrate, on 19 and 20 October, World Mission Day. The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - III World Conference on Child Labour Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The III World Conference on Child Labour will be held from 8th to 10th of October, in Brasilia, in the course of which the main challenges to eliminate all forms of child exploitation will be d ...
• 5 October 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The invitation of the PMS: The mission must rely on the dynamism and generosity of the youth Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Youth in Mission" is the theme of the 2013 missionary campaign that the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil submitted to the national press along with a rich program of initiatives fo ...
• 4 October 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - "Share your faith ... and also your bread": missionary month in the sign of the Year of Faith Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is not a relief organization, an enterprise or an NGO, but a community of people, animated by the Holy Spirit, who have lived and are living the wonder of the encounter with Jesus Chris ...
• 4 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another 100 dengue cases have been registered in one week Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - Until the end of September about two thousand cases of dengue were recorded in the State of Nuevo León. This was stated by local Ministry of Health that has launched an alert for at least ano ...
• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - El Ángel de la calle: support for indigenous children and young people with disabilities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The program "El Ángel de la calle" broadcast by Cable Noticias, Colombian television channel which deals with the basic problems of the Colombians. According to local sources, among these the Ce ...
• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church, the only witness of reality, must write the history in order to build a new society Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Reconciliation means creating a new society" was the main concept expressed by Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, Archbishop of Bogota, in his speech on the theme "The Church for reconciliation and p ...
• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 14 million poor people across the Country Cali (Agenzia Fides) – About 32.2% of the total population of the Country lives in conditions of extreme poverty. From the data collected from July 2012 to June 2013 by the National Administrative Department of Statist ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Over two thousand children are HIV-positive Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - In Guatemala there are over 2371 children and adolescents who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, only 800 of these receive adequate care. As there is no reliable data on the number of infect ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the indigenous population are a "living part" of the country and the Church Naupan (Agenzia Fides) - Almost protected by the hills of Metztepetl, Tonallan and Citlalan (the moon, the sun and the stars), in the Cathedral of Napuan dedicated to St. Mark (in Nahuatl language "El Tecuán", that is, ...