America

• 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 ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - A survey shows that the Church is the institution which is most trusted by Panamanian Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is the institution that enjoys credibility among Panamanians, while the opposite is the National Assembly of Deputies, according to results of a survey published by the firm U ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mother's Day against Domestic Violence Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Mother's Day, which the population of the Dominican Republic celebrates on the last Sunday in May is an opportunity to relieve the longstanding problem of domestic violence: S ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The Day of Holy Childhood Association for the poor children in the world Lima (Agenzia Fides) - To arouse in children a universal missionary awareness, encouraging them to share their faith, love, hope and material goods with the poor and abandoned children in the world: this is the aim of th ...
• 26 May 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA -Bishops to the government: "Stop corruption, we need to fight poverty" Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Argentina asks the government increased efforts to stop corruption and fight poverty. On the occasion of Argentina's national day of independence, on May 25, during the celebrati ...
• 25 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "A transparent Church, formed by men acting under the protection of Jesus" Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - A year after his appointment as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali will present to his community the figures that the universal Church, national and ...
• 24 May 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants and the Church's pastoral commitment: meeting of Bishops on the situation in Central America Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The delegates of the Episcopal Conferences of the United States, Mexico and the countries of Central America and the Caribbean, will meet next week in the Dominican Republic to analyze the im ...
• 24 May 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Fighting human trafficking, which has become "an industry" in the hands of organized crime Gualeguaychú (Agenzia Fides) - There were about sixty participants at the XXVII Meeting of the "Diocese of Frontier, which this year had the theme of human trafficking. From May 21 to 23, representatives of the dioceses ...