America
22 October 2012
AMERICA/PANAMA - The Church asks for peace and dialogue, after the death of a child in the fighting for ZLC land
Panama (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest information Fides Agency received, the government of Panama has considered the opportunity to start a dialogue on the sale of land in the ZLC area after the riots on Frida ...
19 October 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - "It is time to make a quantum leap to promote, support and assist the laity," said Mgr. Aguiar Retes
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, speaking with journalists during a break of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization which he is at ...
19 October 2012
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Alarm concerning the vulnerability of girls, adolescents and young women
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The most vulnerable part of the population in Guatemala is made up of young women who are victims of different kinds of violence. This is what the director of the Office for the Protectio ...
18 October 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue between the government and FARC has started behind closed-door
Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have released a joint statement confirming the meeting for Dialogue for peace in Oslo, capital of Norway, albeit behin ...
18 October 2012
AMERICA/URUGUAY - "No violence is justified under any circumstances," the Archdiocese after the violence in the Marconi barrio of the capital
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) –From Sunday 14 to Tuesday, October 16, the " Marconi barrio " of the Uruguayan capital became a war zone. A group of policemen, looking for some robbers, was the object of throwing stones, s ...
17 October 2012
AMERICA/PERU - "To carry out mission in an area where there are scars of violence": the testimony of the Archbishop of Ayacucho
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During a break in the work of the Synod on the New Evangelization, Fides Agency met His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro Garcia-Calderon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho and President of t ...
17 October 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - The "Caravan of mothers" in search of their children arrived in Mexico
Tenosique (Agenzia Fides) – The "caravan of mothers" of Central America arrived in the Mexican territory, and on the very same day, according to news agencies, there was the first meeting of a Honduran with his parents ...
16 October 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Corruption is everywhere in prisons": new intervention of the Church on the management of prisons
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption and human rights violations are widespread in almost all the prisons in the Country. The monstrous corruption that prevails in these institutions clearly shows that with this sys ...
16 October 2012
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Year of Faith and the new evangelization at the center of the Assembly of Bishops
Tungurahua (Agenzia Fides) – The CXXXII Plenary Assembly of Bishops of Ecuador, in the Casa Santa Marianita Baños (Ambato, Tungurahua) is still in progress. The central theme of this Assembly is the Year of Faith, whi ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/ EL SALVADOR - "Politics is discredited, it has to be retrieved" urges Mgr. Rosa Chavez
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, harshly criticized the behavior of the politicians who run the so-called "buy-sell will" in the political sphere. Since ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - In the Year of Faith: the 90th anniversary of the Diocese of San Cristóbal
San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of San Cristobal in Venezuela celebrates its 90 years, having been established on 12 October 1922 by Pope Pius XI, with the Apostolic Constitution "Ad Munus." The note sent to ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Too many girls are forced to marry when they are minors or suffer sexual violence
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the first International Day of the Child, sponsored by the United Nations, which focused mainly on child marriage and its dramatic consequences, information related to Mex ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - A record for a new generation of Haitians
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Haitian children welcomed in the "Niños Casa de Esperanza" project, mostly orphans, who live in a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, has prepared a record that will be launched b ...
13 October 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Caravan of mothers in search of missing children will travel 14 Mexican states
El Corinth (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, October 15, the "Caravan of Mothers of Central America" will arrive in El Ceibo, an important point in the Mexico-Guatemala border.
The caravan is composed of parents from El Sa ...
12 October 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Religious in politics: the pastor of the Cathedral of Tegucigalpa asks for the respect of the Constitution
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest, Father Carlo Magno Núñez, pastor of the Cathedral of Tegucigalpa, has asked the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Honduras, to uphold the Constitution of the Republic ...
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