America

• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Worrying situation of poverty among Mexican children and adolescents Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, to be a child, teenager means being exposed to the risk of poverty, because of the discrimination suffered by age. According to estimates by CONEVAL-UNICEF (2010), in the country, ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - In California, one child out of 5 lives below the poverty line, the phenomenon is on the rise Sacramento (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the State of California will have to face serious financial difficulties if they do not just focus on the growing phenomenon of poverty among children. This is what emerges ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - For the Jesuits in the Mapuche Mission "we must resolve long-standing problems for lasting peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "From Tirúa, the Jesuits and their collaborators who walk in solidarity with the Mapuche community, want to again express the total rejection of violence and reaffirm their commitment to dialogu ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Clarification on the properties of the Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in TIPNIS Beni (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, in a television program broadcast at the end of December 2012, stated that the Vicariate of Beni is the owner of a farm of 5,000 hectares situat ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church of Venezuela asks to "respect and follow the Constitution" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - At the opening of the 99th Ordinary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV), the President of the CEV, the Archbishop of Cumaná, His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, ask ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Literacy plan to eradicate poverty Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The National Plan for Literacy "Quisqueya Aprende Contigo" has just begun, launched in the Dominican Republic by the local government as one of the strategies to eradicate poverty. The g ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time the "Sowers of Stars" march in the streets of the Peruvian capital Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Several hundred children of AMI (Childhood and Missionary Childhood) gathered in the center of Lima for a day of formation in order to become "Sowers of stars." On Sunday, January 6, they therefo ...
• 7 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - The local Catholic community’s appeal, "Stop to violence in our Araucanía!" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "We see with sorrow the suffering of so many families, so we insist: stop to violence in our Araucanía! As mentioned before, violence begets violence. Justice, dialogue and peace must reign! As ...
• 7 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cold and rain proliferate infections and cause the death of children in Chiapas Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Agenzia Fides) - In the remote Emiliano Zapata community, in the municipality of Yajalón, in Chiapas, Mexico, five children under one have died due to acute respiratory infections, and 41 others have ...
• 7 January 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week: to raise awareness on the 11 million undocumented persons Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the United States (USCCB) today begins National Migration Week with a campaign that calls for comprehensive immigration reform in order to be able to legal ...
• 29 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Missionary Argentina, share your faith": the preparation of COMINA 4 begins Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies of Argentina issued the official convocation of the Fourth National Missionary Congress (COMINA 4), to be held from August 17 to 19 2013 in San Fernando del ...
• 29 December 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Missionary Disciples in the web 2.0": the archdiocese of Santiago launches new website Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The new website of our archdiocese has everything you need to be a means of communication of our time," says the statement sent by the Episcopal Conference of Chile to Fides Agency for the ope ...
• 28 December 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Year of Faith, "a challenge to promote social cohesion": Cardinal Urosa Savino’s message Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, published his New Year message addressed to all Venezuelans calling for citizens to promote social cohesion and the to authorities to incr ...
• 21 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Over 16 thousand people live on the streets of Buenos Aires without access to health services Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - More than 16 000 people live on the streets of Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city of Argentina, with its 2,891,082 inhabitants, who have no access to basic health services. This was ...
• 19 December 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Priest murdered during a robbery Novo Hamburgo (Agenzia Fides) - A Brazilian priest Fr. Eduardo Teixeira (35) was murdered on the evening of Sunday, December 16, in the village Novo Hamburgo (state of Rio Grande do Sul), during a robbery. According to a ...