America

• 5 April 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - " Abstention is not conducive to the people": the Bishops invite to vote on April 14 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The upcoming presidential elections are an atypical fact. This is a challenge for responsible citizens and highlights the strength and significance of the free and responsible vote. Voting deci ...
• 5 April 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Less Catholics in the country, "a fact that cannot leave us indifferent," says the Church Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The National Census of the Chilean population of 2012 revealed that 67.37% of the population is Catholic, with a decrease of 2.59 percentage points compared to 2002. The spokesman of the Episc ...
• 4 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops of Patagonia: "social peace can be reached with the participation of all" Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - Public education must promote the value and care for life, the integral development of individuals and social cohesion. This is what the Bishops of Patagonia (Argentina) said in their Easter me ...
• 4 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous children are the poorest among the poor Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - 53.8% of children living in Mexico live in poverty and 8 out of 10 belong to a different ethnic group. This is what emerges in a recent report released by an official body. Among the 112 mil ...
• 4 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - More than 50 victims due to the torrential rains in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 50 victims due to the rains, and unfortunately the death toll due to flooding caused by storms that have affected the area of La Plata, in the Province of Buenos Aires i ...
• 3 April 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 1.3 billion people worldwide live on less than $ 1.25 a day Washington (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50% of the population living in extreme poverty are concentrated in China, India and Brazil. According to World Bank data, a total of 1.3 billion people live on less than $ 1.25 a d ...
• 26 March 2013
  AMERICA/REP. SANTO DOMINGO - Hope for the inhabitants of bateye living in extreme poverty San Pedro de Macoris (Agenzia Fides) - Among the sugar cane plantations, 70 kilometers east of Santo Domingo, Haitians and Dominicans survive thanks to humanitarian aid that covers most of the local population. 10% of th ...
• 25 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Romero was not a politician but a true pastor San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Romero was not a political figure, but a true pastor, because he lived preaching the Gospel, therefore it is not fair to make him a character linked to the political-party system," sa ...
• 25 March 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Gestures that are potentially prophetic" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) -The Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz and President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mgr. José Maria Arancedo, said that the arrival of Pope Francis at the Chair of Peter, is an ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Immigration reform, perhaps even the support of the Pope Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The archbishop of Los Angeles, Mgr. Jose Gomez, has provided details of the meeting that a delegation of 15 U.S. religious leaders recently had with President Barack Obama on the reform of i ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Thousands for the March for Life, rather than a law, the testimony of the population Lima (Agenzia Fides) -The Episcopal Conference of Peru invites the Archdiocese of Lima and all the faithful to participate in the "March for Life" 2013, which will be held today Saturday, March 23, as a public and peacef ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Truce of God for Holy Week, a call for peace with small gestures Cali (Agenzia Fides) - The archbishop of Cali, Monsignor Dario Monsalve Mejía, urged the armed groups to engage in a"truce of God" during Holy Week, to show a "sign of hope for peace." In a statement, sent to Fides, Mg ...
• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "March for Peace", a traditional Via Crucis to stop the violence in the country Comayagua (Agenzia Fides) – On 22 March the "Caminata por la Paz" (Peace March) will start from the parish of St. Gaspar Taulabé (Comayagua), the procession of thousands of faithful who come from all over Honduras. " ...
• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We are coming to get your head": threats to the priest who accepts migrants Tenosique (Agenzia Fides) - "We are coming to get your head", with these words on behalf of strangers over the phone and then reported by a terrified immigrant used as an emissary, is how father Fray Tomás González was ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Monsignor Romero, 33 years after his death the cause of beatification advances San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The week to commemorate the 33 years of the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero continues. He was assassinated on March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass in the cha ...