America

• 25 June 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The true path to social inclusion is paid work in a dignified manner," Social Week 2012 has just concluded Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - "The true path to social inclusion is paid work in a dignified manner. We renew our commitment to the culture of work. We reject the spread of negative consumerist and materialistic behavi ...
• 25 June 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Social exclusion and poverty for the people of Chiapas, despite natural resources Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the natural resources available in the Mexican State of Chiapas, poverty continues to be the principal stigma to fight. Chiapas lives in conditions of social, cultural and e ...
• 23 June 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - President Lugo disqualified, Bishops’ appeal for peace Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the serious political crisis that the Republic is experiencing, as Bishops of Paraguay, we turn to the representatives of the government and all citizens to express once again our exhor ...
• 23 June 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Sexual intercourse among minors: No on behalf of the Bishops to the amend of the Criminal Code Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Episcopal Conference criticized a bill that proposes to decriminalize sex among minors in Peru: this bill would increase, "libertinism and promiscuity," they said. In a statement sent ...
• 22 June 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Fortnight for freedom: "These rights are fundamental to every human being, we cannot allow them to be trampled on" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Fortnight for freedom": from June 21, the eve of the feast of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, to July 4, Independence Day, the campaign for religious freedom promoted by the Bishops wil ...
• 22 June 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "A truly secular state respects the religious freedom of citizens": Bishops' statement Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM), calls Catholics to defend the amendments made by Congress, which are now under discussion in the local chambers, on everything that concerns the const ...
• 21 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "To take charge of reviewing ways and decisions that have excluded and condemned the poor to misery": Bishops of Brazil for Rio +20 Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB), expects that the Rio +20 meeting confirms the commitment of the construction of an alternative development model, integral and based ...
• 21 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children and adolescents at risk: new scenarios require new responses Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The forum "Children and adolescents at risk in the current socio-political realities of Ecuador" opened yesterday, June 20, in Quito. Sponsored by the Salesian Polytechnic University of Ecuador U ...
• 20 June 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To evangelize among violence, the atheist ideology and consumerist culture: witness of the Apostolic Vicar of San Vicente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Every community member should become a missionary, evangelist, the laity are having to become pastoral operators, only this will give us strength and courage to continue this mission,": says His E ...
• 20 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In Ecuador, the largest number of refugees of America Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2011 was a "record year" for displacement, considering the figures since 2000: says a report published by the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) of which a copy was sent to Fides. Regarding the si ...
• 19 June 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "In 100 days' respite, over 800 lives have been saved": the results of the agreement signed between criminal gangs on the initiative of the Church San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The pact between criminal gangs, the "Mara Salvatrucha" (MS-13) and the "Mara 18" (M-18), has decreased daily murders from 14 to 5, according to data provided by the Castrencian Vicar Monsi ...
• 18 June 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Saltillo: "Do not sell your vote, it is a moral issue" Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - Two weeks before the presidential election, Mgr. Raul Vera Lopez, Bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo, has launched an appeal urging the people not to sell their vote, because the corruption that ...
• 18 June 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Clashes between police and farmers: 17 victims, the Bishops call for an end to violence and to respect laws Curuguaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops of Paraguay express their deep regret at the deaths of police officers and farmers which occured on 15 June, during a procedeure of eviction in Curuguaty, and express their solida ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "The Church before the mega mining projects" forum on an increasingly complex reality Zamora (Agenzia Fides) -The forum "The Church before the mega mining projects", organized by the Social Pastoral in the south of the country, including the jurisdictions of Zamora Chinchipe Azuay, Azogues, Oro and Loja, ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - A project of "Shared Houses" for people living on the streets Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - In Chile, 12,255 people live on the streets, among them 2,003 are adults and 725 children. 77% of them work as street vendors and parking attendants or do the cleaning in factories. Th ...