America

• 8 June 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Mining conflict: there is still no dialogue, despite the repeated requests of the Church Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church denounced the police for having unjustly accused her of instigating the violent anti-mining events that occurred in the southern province of Espinar, where last week two demonst ...
• 8 June 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Dialogue between Church and state must continue and be strengthened," said the Apostolic Nuncio Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Vice President of Venezuela, Elias Jaua, and the Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, met on Wednesday, June 6 with the Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, in order to str ...
• 6 June 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "When the repression began, the Church was not silent": the testimony of Cardinal Quezada Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - There are many accounts submitted to Fides Agency regarding the valuable role carried out by Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Archbishop Emeritus of Guatemala, who died on June 4 at the ...
• 6 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - First report on violence against indigenous peoples Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) will present on 13 June the 2011 Annual Report on violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil. The presentation will take place at the headquarters o ...
• 4 June 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The truce on behalf of armed gangs, an example to stop violence in the Central American area San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) –It depends on the Church in every country to try to bring forward the mediation between gangs, which together with drug traffickers and other criminal groups have exacerbated the violence ...
• 4 June 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Week of Migrants: intensify missionary activity in the field of human mobility Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From 1 to 7 June "National Week of the Migrant and his family", coordinated by the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral of the Peruvian Episcopal Conferen ...
• 1 June 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - No laws against immigrants, the Church has the right to help migrants Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American Catholic Bishops and the United States of America, after the meeting on migration and human mobility celebrated in Santo Domingo (see Fides 24/05/2012 and 31/05/2012) ha ...
• 1 June 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Youth in march to stop violence in the country Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - About 4,000 young Hondurans will participate in a march that will begin on June 8 from Tegucigalpa and will arrive in the town of Talanga on June 10, in the same central region of Honduras ...
• 1 June 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mother's Day: The Church pays tribute to women and defends "the true family" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of Nicaragua want to present, on behalf of the Catholic Church in our country, a sincere tribute of love for all the mothers of Nicaragua, and in particular to recognize how many hav ...
• 31 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church demands a stop to the conflict in the Espinar area that has caused deaths and injuries Espinar (Agenzia Fides) - The Prelature of Sicuani, Cusco, Peru has published a report on the current situation in the province of Espinar, of which a copy was sent to Fides Agency, where the following acts of violence c ...
• 31 May 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Eradicate Poverty, inequality and social exclusion that cause the forced displacement of population: the meeting on Migration in Central America has just concluded Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, issued yesterday, May 30, an appeal so that the Government of the Dominican Republic rectifies the situation (as reg ...
• 30 May 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Meeting of Families in Milan: Bolivia present, with a NO to gay couples Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Before leaving for Milan (Italy) headquarters of the Seventh International Meeting of Families, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Bascopé, Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, said that for the four Bolivian c ...
• 29 May 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Terrazas strongly condemns the "DIY justice" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz, has strongly condemned the scourge of the "DIY justice". "It is really scary to know when someone is lynched, as if it were a significant fa ...
• 29 May 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The plight of migrants repatriated by force to their country Toncontin (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty, social status and violence are the factors that continue to push our compatriots to leave the country, following a dangerous path, full of pain and suffering," said Sister Valdete Wi ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Church must be present in working panel discussions with indigenous communities Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Manuel Camilo Vial, underlined that the Church must participate in working panel discussions with indigenous communities, announced by President ...