America

• 4 November 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "The Church is immersed in society and cannot avoid being involved in everything that happens": The Bishops analyze the reality of the country Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (ECP) is preparing to analyze the national and ecclesial reality in the context of the next ordinary meeting in the year 2011, which will take place from M ...
• 4 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Sad record for the city of Oaxaca: 1500 children die every year from zero to 14 years of age Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest World Health Organization estimates the main causes of infant death each year are due to infections and accidents. The leading cause among children included in the age gro ...
• 4 November 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Towards the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Between 2006 and 2009, 3,540 complaints of bullying were presented in Colombia. 56 percent of those who were subject to harassment is represented by women. This was reported in the November issu ...
• 3 November 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-Train runs down a bus carrying children bringing food and clothing to the poor of Cazador San Luis (Agenzia Fides) - Argentina is in shock after the tragedy that occurred yesterday, November 2, near San Luis, which caused the death of six girls between 10 and 11 years of age, and two teachers. According to in ...
• 3 November 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Human trafficking in the country is increasing: 37 children are missing in just 3 months Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - In just three months, 75 children have been reported missing in Sucre, and only 38 of them have been found, this leads us to think that the others are likely to be victims of human trafficking. Th ...
• 31 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Climate change linked to economic interests, the Church’s concern San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, climate change is directly linked to economic interests, and this, in his opinion, makes it difficult to take conc ...
• 31 October 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Maryknoll Missionaries: 100 years at the service of the mission ad gentes New York City (Agenzia Fides) - The Maryknoll Missionaries (Society for Foreign Missions of the United States of America), one of the most important U.S. missionary institutions for the mission Ad Gentes, yesterday celeb ...
• 29 October 2011
  AMERICA/CUBA - "The Church lives a new relationship with the state and the people": Cardinal Ortega confirmed as Archbishop of Havana Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The dialogue with the government of Raul Castro remains open, and touches all sectors of national life, including the process of economic reforms on the island, the Catholic Church is experiencin ...
• 29 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops are the "best available witnesses" for the elections on November 6 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - To monitor the upcoming elections and to ensure transparency, the Bishops are the "best possible witnesses": this is why the organization "Ethics and Transparency," which has the task of monitor ...
• 28 October 2011
  AMERICA - Violent deaths: 9 out of 10 occur in situations that are not declared war Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Armed violence is both a cause and a consequence of underdevelopment says the report entitled "Global Burden of Armed Violence in 2011" published yesterday, 27 October, in Geneva, which was prepa ...
• 28 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - More than 5 000 teachers at the Forum of Education sponsored by the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The ninth Public Education Forum has just been celebrated, organized by the Vicariate of Public Education of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, attended by 5,523 teachers of 250 schools. The ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Work integration is necessary, in respect of the autonomy of each diocese": Meeting of Bishops of the border dioceses of Colombia and Venezuela Ureña (Agenzia Fides) - As in the past, the Bishops in charge of the border area between Colombia and Venezuela have held a work meeting. The meeting was held on October 25 in the town of Ureña (Venezuela) and was atte ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Maternal deaths: the fatal destiny of peasants and indigenous people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the International Day of Rural Women has just concluded, official figures show that in the Mexican states where most of the indigenous people or peasants live, and where ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "A political victory is not a blank check": the Church asks us not forget the poor Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Cristina Fernández, the President of Argentina, was re-elected on Sunday with 53% of the votes, a historical event. This is the largest popular support in a presidential election won by th ...
• 26 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, "It is a challenge to accommodate an ever-increasing number of deportees from the United States" Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "For Mexico it is a great challenge to receive the thousands of Mexicans who are deported from the United States, after the government of this country established as a priority the indiscrimi ...