America

• 17 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - More violence in Colombia: a priest murdered Buga (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan priest Don José Francisco Velez Echeverri, 55, was found dead yesterday, January 16, with stab wounds in the courtyard of his house in the neighborhood El Albergue, in the south of Bu ...
• 17 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: "Solving the problem of violence with social investment" Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Colombian Diocese of Buenaventura, His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Epalza Quintero P.S.S., called on the authorities to solve the problem of violence afflicting the country by not u ...
• 16 January 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Do not kill": the Apostolic Administrator of Izabal invites the community not to take the law into their hands Puerto Barrios (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Mario Enrique Rios Mont, CM, Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal in Guatemala, has strongly condemned the behavior of the community of Puerto Barr ...
• 16 January 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - 3 years after the earthquake, the Redemptorist reorganize Popular Missions Port-Au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Jeffrey Rolle and Fr. João Pedro Fernandes, General Consultors of the Redemptorists, visited Haiti 3 years after the earthquake that destroyed much of the island and structures. The ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Three million working children live in extreme situations of slavery Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, about three million children are exploited in the worst forms of child labor, andwe are talking about all of them, but only the "worst." They live extreme situations of slavery an ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops for the presidential elections, "the Christian should not adhere to ideological systems that oppose to the faith he professes" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In the presidential elections of 17 February, the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador has issued a document, divided into three parts, entitled "Elections, a space for democracy", of which a copy was ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must stop the killing of innocent people": Bishop Vera Lopez’s appeal after the death of a student Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, His Exc. Mgr. Raúl Vera López, denounced that, because of the number of deaths due to violence, a real scandal of the country, it is necessary that s ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastor forced to lock down a parish for the violence, and the faithful return to Mass Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - All around there is a-five-meter high wall of reinforced concrete, the walls are evidence of bombings and car bombings. Metal blocks were also placed on the windows to prevent stray bullets fr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Campaign against illiteracy: The Church supports the initiative in favor of 850 thousand people Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial dedicated to the National Campaign for Literacy published by "Camino", the National Catholic weekly of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Catholic Church welco ...
• 12 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New attacks against migrants in Chiapas: the complaint of Catholics Ciudad Ixtepec (Agenzia Fides) - In the early days of 2013, new aggression and violence is registered against migrants in Chiapas: the complaint, through Fides Agency, made by the "Casa del Migrante Hermanos en el Camino ...
• 12 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Crisis at the border with Haiti: Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez calls for government intervention Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On the crisis and the tensions that are registered at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic "only the governments on both sides, Dominican and Haiti, can find a solution to t ...
• 11 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appeal of the Diocese of Zamora for the priest missing since December 27 Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican diocese of Zamora sent to Fides Agency an appeal to pray for Father Santiago, of whom we know nothing. Father Santiago Alvarez Figueroa, 27 years old, on 27 December went to celebrate ...
• 11 January 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishops denounce the "growing social disillusionment " and propose public education as a basis for development Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Panama have expressed their concerns about the "growing social disillusionment, consequence of the increase of stress, aggression, fear, political tension and an impairment loss of ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The situation of indigenous peoples requires the remedy of centuries of marginalization and injustice": Bishops on Mapuche Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops members of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile expressed their "deep concern" about the conflict that the village of La Araucanía is experiencing and stress ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church also participates in the campaign for disarmament in the capital Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the Catholic Church participates in a concrete way to the initiatives regarding the research of peace and tranquility in the capital," said the Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Norberto ...