America

• 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 ...
• 12 April 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Birth of a phone line to assist Mexican children in difficulty Toluca (Agenzia Fides) - Violence in all its forms is a daily problem for Mexican children, we are dealing with a silent plague, which very few tmes is reported and therefore there are no certain figures. To address this ...
• 11 April 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - How to offer cultural attractions to the young and push them away from danger Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) – To offer cultural attractions for the young and push them away from very common dangerous situations in Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, is the goal of the project "Cultu ...
• 11 April 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Bishops meet in plenary Assembly: among the main themes: the Year of Faith and the Synod Florida (Agenzia Fides) - The Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay begins today, April 11, in Florida. According to information Fides received by the Episcopal Conference, the work will begin with a ha ...
• 4 April 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time the Pope's Holy Week will be broadcast on tv across the country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Peru informs, through a joint statement to Fides, the extensive media coverage, that the Holy Week celebrations presided by the Holy Father, will have this year in Peru. ...
• 4 April 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops advise moderation and caution with regards to dialogue with the guerrillas; without the will on behalf of the parties true peace will never be reached Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Colombian area "eje Cafetero" (Pereira, Armenia and Manizales), so named for the particular coffee production, consider that the decision of the government of a possible dialo ...
• 3 April 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA- FARC-10 hostages have been released, the Church welcomes the gesture, but asks for more Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia expressed their satisfaction with the release of ten people (including members of the police and army) who had been kidnapped by the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces o ...
• 3 April 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Cathedral is still occupied, dialogue has been interrupted for the "Easter holidays" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Escobar Alas, complained that for the past three months, the Metropolitan Cathedral has been occupied by a group of ex-combatants, which d ...