America

• 10 January 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The National Congress of youth pastoral, "a tsunami of faith and enthusiasm" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Everything is ready to start on 11 January, the National Congress of the youth pastoral. The organizers have confirmed the presence of more than 400 delegates, in addition to special guests a ...
• 10 January 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Padrón Sanchez new President of the episcopal Conference Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sanchez, Archbishop of Cumaná, was elected new President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (VEC) for the period 2012-2015. In the new group Mgr. José Luis Azua ...
• 9 January 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Concepcion’s appeal for the fires: "we are faced with an emergency" Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal was launched by the Archbishop of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali, to express solidarity to families who are suffering from the tragedy of the fires occurred in s ...
• 9 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Alert for minors in the country recruited by drug dealers Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Drug and Force Administration (DEA), U.S. anti-drug federal agency, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said that in Mexico there are many children between 11 and 17 yea ...
• 5 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 10 million pilgrims at the Shrine of Aparecida in 2011 Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The National Shrine of Aparecida, which is located in the northern city of Aparecida (São Paulo State), welcomed a total of 10.885.878 million visitors in 2011. This is what the Episcopal Con ...
• 4 January 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - After 20 years since the Peace Agreements, the Church calls for a new national social Pact San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The budget of twenty years is positive but today the country needs "something more": just days before the 20th anniversary of the historic "peace agreements" signed on January 16, 1992 in ...
• 4 January 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sad toll for 2011 in Colombia: 117 children killed Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011 117 children were murdered in Colombia, 41 of them under 5 years of age. This is what emerges from the statistics, sent to Fides, on the toll statements released at the end of 2011 concer ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez calls for an election campaign without violence Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, has asked the aspirants to the presidency of the Republic for a campaign that is worthy of the importance of consult ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Every day 41 children disappear, involved in criminal gangs or destined to exploitation Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico 41 children disappear every day. According to UNICEF, over the past 5 years over 75 000 children have gone missing, of whom about 20 000 are victims of traffickers. In the period 2 ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 492 000 families in extreme poverty sustained in 2011 Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011, the social program Juntos supported a total of 492,871 families in Peru who live in extreme poverty in 702 districts of 116 provinces of 14 departments. This social initiative is active in ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "It is not enough to add years to life, but it is necessary to give life to years" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In a long homily during the Mass on the first day of the new year, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, highlighted that Honduras has its sense of direction, ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - Bishops make the program known about the Pope's visit to Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mexican Episcopal Conference (see Fides 02/01/2012), the Cuban Episcopal Conference announced the program of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in Cuba The text of the statement, of which a co ...
• 2 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than one million child workers in the country Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest figures of the population census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), over a million children aged between 10 and 14 continue to wor ...
• 2 January 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appeal for peace in Caracas, where there were 623 violent deaths in December Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, celebrated Mass in the Cathedral of Caracas on January 1, launching an appeal for peace. In his message addressed to the Venezuelans, he asked ...
• 2 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Episcopal Conference has announced the program of the Pope's visit Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "On December 12, 2011, His Holiness Benedict XVI announced his intention to undertake an apostolic journey, before Easter, in Mexico and Cuba. After the consultations with the Government of ...