America

• 2 August 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Integral, fair and sustainable human development", a request to protect the communities of Comodoro Rivadavia Comodoro Rivadavia (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission of Social and Indigenous Pastoral of the Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia, in Patagonia in southern Argentina, expressed its concern about a mining project recen ...
• 2 August 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Facing the challenges of each particular Church with the spirit of the PMS: the 41st Assembly of the PMS in Peru begins Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The 41st General Assembly of Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru is in progress, held at the Retreat House of St. Joseph of Cluny in Lima on the theme: "Faith without lov ...
• 1 August 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Street violence increases, denunciation of the Catholic Church Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At least 212 people were killed by gunfire in Haiti between April and June due to the escalation of urban violence that has hit the Country recently. This is what is reported in a stateme ...
• 31 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Discrimination against the Mapuche people continues, also victims among children Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous Mapuche peoples of the Chilean region of Araucania, 680 kilometers south of Santiago, continues to suffer acts of racism and repression after being forced to leave their land of ...
• 30 July 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Juan Diego, he who facilitated the fruitful meeting of two worlds, 10th anniversary of the canonization Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 31, the Mexican Church will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the canonization of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, known in Catholic history for "the Guadalupan event," which took pl ...
• 28 July 2012
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - There are no programs and facilities to reduce extreme poverty in which thousands of children on the island live San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Over 80% of children in Puerto Rico live in areas of extreme poverty, and the percentage of local teenagers who do not work or attend school is twice that of the United States. According to a r ...
• 28 July 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Missionary Argentina, share your faith", preparation of the IV National Missionary Congress in Catamarca Catamarca (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Argentina have begun the preparation of the IV National Missionary Congress to be held in the Diocese of Catamarca in 2013. For this reason Mgr. Vicente Bo ...
• 27 July 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Eight out of 10 children are victims of abuse Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Over 80% of children and adolescents in the Dominican Republic are victims of physical abuse, sexual abuse and violence within their own families or at the hands of neighbors, in addition ...
• 27 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "No more violence, we must resume the broken dialogue": an appeal of the Mapuche community priests Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priests who are part of the pastoral Mapuche, have asked to avoid acts of violence and have made an appeal to resume the "broken dialogue" between Mapuche communities and authoriti ...
• 26 July 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The strike on behalf of nurses in the country has ended, lasted 29 days Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 2,600 nurses from Honduras who have stopped the strike which for over 29 days has kept the country in suspense. The national protest of the nurses came to an end afte ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Poverty has a female face": alarming discrimination against women Durango (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Sanchez Martinez, denounced "the alarming discrimination against women in Mexico", in particular in his diocese. He said that "violence aga ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Conflict in the region of Araucania; for Caritas "the way of righteousness leads to peace" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Institute has issued a statement condemning the violent events of recent days which took place in the Chilean region of Araucania and proposes the way of justice as the only one ...
• 24 July 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Stop violence against women: an emergency for the State and the Church Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of a convivial gathering to say thank you to the various institutions for the end of President Leonel Fernandez' mandate, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Arch ...
• 24 July 2012
  AMERICA - Inauguration of the Observatory of the New Evangelization for Latin America Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the New Evangelization, His Exc. Mgr. Octavio Ruiz Arenas, announced that on Tuesday, July 24, during the opening session of the meet ...
• 23 July 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Hundreds of thousands of children in Chiapas work without compensation Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 199 thousand children in the age group ranging from 5 to 17 work without receiving any financial compensation. According to the local Labour Offic ...