America

• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Education and technical formation for deaf children and young people: a new facility Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) –Laying the foundation stone of a new facility for the care of children and deaf young people in the city of Cochabamba has recently taken place. The new facility will be called "Don Bosco Sa ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/PERU-Caritas Peru will help over 5 thousand people with the promotion of local products Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Peru has signed a cooperation agreement with the company "Sierra Exportadora" to enhance and better commercialize the production of the inhabitants of the Peruvian highlands. The agreement ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Year of Faith and the defense of life, two central issues for the Assembly of Bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - From now until April 28, at the house of spiritual retreat "El Cenaculo", in Buenos Aires, the 103rd Plenary Assembly of the Argentina Episcopal Conferencewill take place, the first of 201 ...
• 23 April 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mother Maria Ines beatified, founder of a missionary institute present in 14 countries Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "I am pleased to recall that yesterday, in Mexico, María Inés Teresa of the Blessed Sacrament, foundress of the Clarissan Missionary Sisters of the most Blessed Sacrament was beatified. Le ...
• 20 April 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Still serious humanitarian problems in the "forgotten areas" of the country: report of the ICRC Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia presented in Bogotá and in nine other Colombian cities where it works, its annual report containing serious reports on the growing ...
• 20 April 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Saltillo: "Mexico is currently experiencing the worst historical humanitarian crisis with regards to migration, there is no political will to solve the problem" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The country is currently experiencing the worst historical humanitarian crisis with regards to migration": With these words His Exc. Raúl Vera, Bishop of Saltillo, in the Forum entitled "B ...
• 18 April 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops close to the Quilombolas people, who claim that the land belongs to them Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The warranty of land ownership occupied by them for centuries is a constitutional duty and an ethical-moral commitment": this is how the President of the National Conference of Brazilian Bisho ...
• 18 April 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - XI National Congress of the Youth: "Youth Mission, announces Christ everywhere" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The XI National Congress of the Youth in Mexico will be celebrated in July, organized by the Episcopal Commission for the Prophetic Pastoral Care in the Mission, by the National Directorate ...
• 18 April 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Emergency for the worst flooding in 15 years in the region of El Chaco Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - At least 40 000 people have suffered serious damage due to the flooding which recently struck the western region of El Chaco, in Paraguay. According to data on behalf of the Secretariat for Na ...
• 17 April 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-The occupants leave the Cathedral of San Salvador, a commission studies their requests San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - At last, the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador has been given back to the local Church. Yesterday the protesters who for more than three months, since 11 January 2012 (see Fides 16/01/ ...
• 17 April 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Year of Faith and Permanent Mission, the main themes of the Episcopate Assembly Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The CXXXI Plenary Assembly of Bishops of Ecuador is still in progress, this time the main themes are the Year of Faith and the Permanent Mission of the Church in Ecuador. The meeting began yeste ...
• 16 April 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI- A group of Haitians stopped at the border since January have finally arrived in Brazil Iñapari (Agenzia Fides) - The last group of 245 Haitians who had been stopped as refugees in Iñapari, a Peruvian town on the border between Peru and Brazil have finally crossed the border of Brazil. The decision to aut ...
• 16 April 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The Feast of Quasimodo": thousands of Catholics accompany Christ-Eucharist to give communion to the infirm Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Chilean Catholics take to the streets of cities and small rural communities yesterday to "run with Christ" (Spanish expression used in Chile, which means "to accompany Christ-Eucha ...
• 14 April 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "More must be done against poverty," said the Episcopal Head of the Social Pastoral Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is concerned about the level of corruption in the Country," said Mgr. Jorge Lozano, Bishop of Gualeguaychú and head of the Social Pastoral of the Episcopal Conference of Argent ...
• 13 April 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 850 000 maltreated children who work in precarious conditions La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – Half of the Bolivian population, over 5 million people, is 17 years or less old, and among these, approximately 850 000 children and adolescents working in dangerous and poorly paid activities ...