America

• 18 July 2011
  AMERICA /MEXICO- Casa del Migrante in San Luis Potosi closes down: each year nearly 9 000 Central American migrants were welcomed San Luis Potosi (Fides Service) - Casa del Migrante in San Luis Potosi,in Mexico closes down. This is what we read in a declaration by father Ruben Perez, of the local Caritas, a copy of which was sent to Fides. Among th ...
• 18 July 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL-"The Church must be a promoter of dialogue and speak an understandable language to today's world": the training seminar for the Bishops of Brazil has concluded Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - The Church must be a promoter of dialogue and democracy, in a clear and decisive way, both in society and within the Church: it is the exhortation addressed to the Bishops of Brazil by th ...
• 18 July 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL-Exchange of experience between the PMS of Austria and Brazil Bahia (Fides Service) - A missionary group with 15 people from the Commission "Church in the world," of the Guardian Angel parish in the Diocese of Graz, in Austria, visited Brazil from July 5 to 15. In addition to parti ...
• 15 July 2011
  AMERICA /UNITED STATES-Forgiveness and reconciliation are essential for durable peace in South Sudan and for the entire region New York City (Fides Service) - "Just days after the July 9 inauguration of the Republic of South Sudan, the new state was admitted as a Member State in the UN by acclamation of the General Assembly. The Delegation of th ...
• 15 July 2011
  AMERICA/PERU '- "Center for Studies and integral human development" becomes a reality: the inauguration on July 19 Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - After ten months of uninterrupted work, on Tuesday, July 19 at 11:30am the first phase of the "Centre for Studies and integral human development (CSIHD) - New Arequipa" will begin, an initiat ...
• 14 July 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL-First meeting of the Jesuit brothers: vocation and formation in relation to the mission in Latin America St. Paul (Agenzia Fides) - From July 16 to 29, the first seminar for the Coadjutor Brothers of Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the National Commission of Jesuit Brothers in Brazil, with the support of the B ...
• 14 July 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-World Population Day: 7 billion people around the world within October New York City (Fides Service) - World Population Day will be celebrated next week. According to the United Nations Organization (UNO), in October, the number of inhabitants of the planet will reach 7 billion. The statist ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-More than 4000 operators engaged in pastoral work in prisons, an increasingly difficult mission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (EMC) prisons has announced that the work of the representatives of the Catholic Church in prisons is increasingly difficult for the situatio ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Church of Santiago celebrates 450 years in the service of the community Santiago, Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "Christ ayer, hoy y siempre" is the motto with which the Church of Santiago, created as a diocese in 1561 by Pope Pius IV, celebrated her 450 years of life. The Archbishop of Santiago, H ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO-Confirmation of the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 March 2011, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Rev. Fr. Jose Orlando Camacho Torres, CSSp as National Director of th ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY-The religious study the reality of the country Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of the Religious of Paraguay is celebrating its institutional assembly which has programmed an analysis of the national and ecclesial realities. In fact, this meeting will addres ...
• 12 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-The VII World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Mexico, where 22 million tourists arrived in 2010 Cancun (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican will have the full support of the Mexican authorities for the realization of the VII World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism to be held from 23 to 27 April 2012, assured the Am ...
• 12 July 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-Church's appeal to stop violence: killed 77 students killed and 114 murders committed on public transport San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in El Salvador asks to join the security situation due to the insecurity the country is living and facing and considers very serious the fact that authorities and leader ...
• 11 July 2011
  AMERICA/PANAMA-"There seems to be a divorce between the interests of the political class and the concrete needs of the Panamanian people", say the Bishops in their message Panama City (Fides Service) - At the end of the 192 Plenary Meeting of the Episcopal Conference of Panama (see Fides 07/07/2011), the Bishops issued a document, also sent to Fides, divided into two distinct parts: the ec ...
• 11 July 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE-The image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Missionary on Easter Island Santiago, Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, donated by the Holy Father to Chile, will travel 4,000 km to complete its journey across the continental country and island: the news wa ...