America

• 30 November 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - More than 3,500 children and adolescents work to support families La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian families of low income force many children to work as a shoeshine, peddlers, window washers, carters. According to the recent survey "Infancia sin derechos", carried out by the Obser ...
• 28 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU-Missionary missing for 5 days in the Peruvian jungle Moyobamba (Agenzia Fides) - Father Alfonso Asencios Zuluoga, a Vincentian missionary has been missing for five days. The priest, of the parish of Our Lady de los Remedios, in La Banda of Shilcayo, belongs to the Congrega ...
• 28 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must discern the signs of the times and be witnesses of hope before violence", urges Cardinal Rivera Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico, Norberto Rivera Carrera, urged Mexicans not to think that they have already been defeated and not to give in to despair in the face of rising violence acro ...
• 26 November 2011
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops' Appeal: building peace in Central America Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Strengthening the culture of life and peace in Central America: is what the Bishops of Central American Bishops' Secretariat (SEDAC) ask at the end of the assembly held in Tegucigalpa. The A ...
• 26 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Thousands of believers marching to defend migrants in Chiapas and the earth San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) – To demonstrate against the mining exploitation, the destruction of nature, drug abuse and violations of the rights of migrants: for this purpose, local sources of Fides report that over ...
• 25 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU -New appeal by the Church to dialogue on the mining issue: "Our country does not deserve to see repeated tragic episodes" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Peru called for a "fair, equitable and constructive" dialogue after the announcement of a strike against the mining activities in the department of Cajamarca (the Andes, 860 ...
• 25 November 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA-The establishment of SIGNIS Colombia, a challenge for the Catholic communication in a country committed to peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – After the conclusions of a meeting between individuals and representatives of different institutions working in the field of the Catholic communication, that gathered on November 18 at the head ...
• 24 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "It is time to improve our institutions and expose corruption", asks the weekly magazine of the Archdiocese of Mexico Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Nuevo leon (Mexico City), through its weekly magazine "Desde la Fe", invites everyone to a serious reflection on the importance of the 2012 electoral events and to report ...
• 24 November 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "We Bishops must be witnesses of the kingdom of justice": the work of SEDAC General Assembly Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Bishops' Secretariat of Central America (SEDAC) is being held, in the municipality of Valle de Angeles, in Honduras. This assembly is held every year to evaluate and ...
• 23 November 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The New Executive Director of the the United States Catholic Mission Association USCMA Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Catholic Mission Association, USCMA has a new Executive Director: Fr. John Richard Nuelle, member of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette (MS), elected by the Board of ...
• 23 November 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The U.S. Bishops approve the funding for the reconstruction projects in Haiti and 174 of solidarity in Latin America Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has approved the funding for 174 projects, worth over 2.7 million dollars to help the Churc ...
• 23 November 2011
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The celebration of the Bicentennial marked by the testimony of the Catholic faith and the commitment to human dignity Florida (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Uruguay has published, on account of the celebration of the Bicentennial, a document titled "Our Homeland: gratitude and hope". The letter is addressed "to all the fa ...
• 22 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Waiting for the Pope's visit, while "violence is a matter of concern and worries everyone": the Nuncio at the end of the Congress of Secular Institutes Merida (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop Mgr. Christophe Pierre, said that in his next visit to the nation, Pope Benedict XVI will bring a message of peace and encouragement against violence. S ...
• 22 November 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA-The number of children abused, exploited sexually and psychologically increases Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Child abuse continues to be a very serious wound in the Latin American country. According to the latest report carried out by ICBF, the Colombian Institute which deals with the protection of the ...
• 22 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Necessary to protect the rights of Mexican indigenous children living in poverty and social exclusion Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has appealed to the government, society, public institutions and civil organizations to improve the current standard of living of a half million c ...