America

• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Church offers criteria to elect the next President: a document is being prepared San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Costa Rica is preparing a document to "enlighten the electorate in the political campaign, in the light of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church": this was anno ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Poverty rate remains constant and alarming San José (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty is a phenomenon present in all of Costa Rica, despite the enormous efforts proved fruitless, made in the last 20 years to try to eliminate it. According to a recent report published by ...
• 30 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Today the funeral of the two murdered priests Cali (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Darío de Jesús Monsalve, strongly denounced the violence against the priests, after the murder of the priest and the curate of the parish of San Sebastián ...
• 30 September 2013
  AMERICA - New portal at the service of migrants: an American initiative Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Combining the efforts of various organizations working for and with migrants in order to strengthen the services offered in the evangelizing mission in a space-communion, to give useful informat ...
• 27 September 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The "Igreja Catholic apostolic brasileira" is a schismatic community Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "Igreja Catholic apostolic brasileira", founded by Mr. Carlos Duarte Costa, who died in 1961, and was succeeded by Mr. Luis Fernando Castillo Mendes, who died in 2009, is considered a s ...
• 27 September 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Defense of the Constitution, human rights, the environment: national mobilization of the indigenous Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Next week, from September 30 to October 5, there will be protests of indigenous peoples in at least four Brazilian capitals (Brasilia, San Pablo, Belem and Rio Branco) and in other urban center ...
• 26 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Msg. Garfias to Fides: "There are still isolated parishes and a city buried due to landslides" Guerrero (Agenzia Fides) - More than 115 people have died, 60 missing, 40,000 tourists stranded, floods, landslides, hunger, despair, uncertainty, and about 238,000 homeless victims: this is the toll of the Hurricane Man ...
• 25 September 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Two thousand victims rescued from human trafficking, 42% are minors Lima (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand victims (42% of whom are minors) of human trafficking have been rescued by the police since June 2011 to date, according to data released by the General Secretariat of the Mi ...
• 24 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Do not take advantage of the tragedy": the Bishop of Córdoba asks authorities for transparency Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Córdoba, His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Patiño Leal, has called on the authorities and politicians of different sectors, not to take advantage of the families affected by t ...
• 23 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Migrants are not criminals", the Church continues in the reception of people from Central America Tlaxcala (Agenzia Fides ) - "La Casa del Migrante del Sagrado Corazon, which is situtated in Apizaco (Tlaxcala) will not close": this was announced by the Bishop of the diocese of Tlaxcala, His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Moreno ...
• 23 September 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The PMS of the Southern Cone prepare CAM4 - COMLA9 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Secretaries and Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Southern Cone of Latin America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil), met this weekend, from September 20 t ...
• 21 September 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence, murders and suicides, the indigenous people hope in the aid of the Church Balsas (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Erwin Kräutler, Bishop of the Prelature of Xingu in Pará and president of CIMI, and Mgr. Enemesio Lazzaris, bishop of the Diocese of Balsas, in Maranhão and president of the Past ...
• 21 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Aid to the prisoners on the feast of the Patron of Prisoners Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - About 18,000 people in different prisons will benefit from the agreement between the Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care and the Food Bank of Bogota, which provides for the distribution o ...
• 20 September 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops during ordinary assembly also discuss on the judgment of the Court in The Hague Jinotega (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua have been attending their ordinary general assembly in the city of Jinotega since 18 September. The assembly is held every two months: sinc ...
• 20 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - General health care and food counseling organized by the local Church Tijuana - The Archdiocese of Tijuana, the main city of the Mexican state of Baja California, organized the Fifth Day of Health care in the Miramar colony where free counseling services were offered regarding general medi ...