America

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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Missionary Jubilee Year: "A time of awareness of the missio ad gentes" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Our goal is to keep alive the memory of the missionary journey, but above all to see missionary action as a paradigm for all the work of the Church. The Jubilee brings us into this wonderful d ...
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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA - Saint Toribio de Mogrovejom, the great evangelizer who anticipated the journey of the "Church which goes forth" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Toribio anticipated the journey of the 'Church which goes forth' on our continent. He spent a total of 17 of his 25 years as Archbishop of Lima traveling some 40,000 kilometers making pas ...
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  27 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Moron warns against misleading information about drug use Moron (Agenzia Fides) - "As Bishop of Moron, I would like to address our entire community and publicly express my deep concern at statements that send a misleading message to young people about the serious consequences a ...
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  27 April 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Journalists: "their task is to seek and communicate the truth, communicate hope and life to our people" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The journalist's task is to seek and communicate the truth, both through facts and investigative reports, through the interpretation of events or through his comments. The search for the trut ...
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  25 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A training course for the integration of missionaries in the Venezuelan socio-cultural context underway Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Introduction to the Venezuelan reality": this is the name of the course conceived by the Missionary Training Center of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Venezuela. This is an unprecedented fo ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Great National Mission: the Missionary Cross will travel to all the dioceses San José (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the Great National Mission that the Catholic Church of Costa Rica is carrying out, the enthronement of a Missionary Cross is planned in each of the eight dioceses of the country. Th ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops to the President and parliamentarians: "Assume your responsibility for which you were elected!" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, aware of the reality that Peruvians live in all corners of the country, makes an urgent appeal to their political leaders to assume the current situation with gr ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The cry for help from the Yanomami communities and indigenous reservations Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Faithful to its mystical and prophetic commitment to the cry of the poor and the earth, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking (CEPEETH) expresses it ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops: "The resurrection of Christ opens the horizon for hope: hope for a better life and country" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "After two years of Covid-19 pandemic, Catholics have again celebrated the mysteries of the faith in churches and in the streets. This fills us with joy and deep gratitude to the Lord because ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in Arauca even at Easter: four people killed, including two children Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - "Every death afflicts us. But even more the death and injury of children, our children, who are completely innocent of this crazy wave of violence to which the region has been subjected, especial ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Conflicts over land, water, work: they often do not find space in the media Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual report prepared by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) registered 1,768 conflicts in 2021, 13.92% less than in 2020. These are situations related to land, water and labor rights, whic ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Franciscan religious killed in church after the Easter vigil La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the news of the robbery in the convent of San Francisco in the city of Santa Cruz and the violent murder of Friar Wilberth Daza Rodas OFM, our Church is in mourning and dismayed by the eve ...
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  13 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Artemide Zatti, the first Salesian Brother, consecrated, but not a priest - to be proclaimed a Saint: a message of hope Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 April 2022, during the Audience granted to His Eminence Most Reverend Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same ...
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  12 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Climate events, education, violence: the Bishops of the State of Rio de Janeiro ahead of the elections Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "The State of Rio de Janeiro needs particular attention so that climatic events do not continue to cause disasters and suffering. The promotion of quality public education and the fight a ...
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  11 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Twelve university students, missionaries among the indigenous people of the Vicariate of Caroni San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) - There are 12 young missionaries who from April 9 to 20, will dedicate the Easter period to evangelization among the peoples and indigenous communities of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroni ...