America

• 4 February 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The “new frontiers” for child labour at the World Social Forum in Dakar San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) – The 11th World Social Forum (WSF) returns to Africa, in Dakar (Senegal), to be held from 6 to 11 February 2011. The presence at the WSF 2011 of associations working to combat the worst forms ...
• 4 February 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A communal strategy for peace: Mexican Bishops in Colombia Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation of Mexican Bishops will travel to Colombia to learn about the activities that the Catholic Church in Colombia will hold for peace, against violence by organised crime and guer ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - PMS launch multi-media website: “Mission Voices - Speaking of Faith” New York (Agenzia Fides) – The National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the United States launched a new multi-media website yesterday, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, 2 February. This ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation of Missionary Youth also via the internet Brasilia-Fortaleza (Agenzia Fides) – February is a summer month in Brazil, and also a month dedicated to the initiative of preparation and formation of many Catholic groups. The national headquarters of the Pontifical ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Do not accept “drug-handouts” asks the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – The violations of human rights suffered by Central American migrants in Mexico on their way to the border with the United States “is outrageous,” said the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbi ...
• 3 February 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 85 years of life, forming the priests of Tachira, Venezuela San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) – On the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, 2 February, the church of San Cristóbal celebrated the Day of Consecrated Life and 85 years since the foundation of St Thoma ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Pastoral ministry in this continent “has more of a future than a past” San José (Agenzia Fides) - Work is continuing at the Second Latin American Continental Congress on Vocations, promoted by the Department for Vocations and Ministries of the Latin American Episcopal Conference, currently ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary work requires qualified formation: MCC course to commence Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On 27 February, at the Missionary Cultural Centre in (MCC), in Brasilia, a new course will commence for foreign missionaries, composed of Portuguese language lessons, an introduction to the p ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mission in the family: the experience of the Schoensttat Movement Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) – There were 68 missionaries, for most part members of the Schoensttat Apostolic Movement, who, for the third consecutive year, gave life to the Missionary Families in the town of Cabrero, Ch ...
• 1 February 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church's expectations from the visit of President Obama: welfare and development, emigration San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador awaits the visit from the President of the United States, Barack Obama, with a positive outlook, hoping to establish the basis for a “radical reform f ...
• 31 January 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops reiterate the denunciation of the lack of respect for the Constitution of the Republic Managua (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Nicaragua have reiterated once again the need to respect the Constitution which prohibits the President from being re-elected, criticizing the judges of the Court who approved ...
• 29 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - The Archbishop of Lima officially opens RPP TV headquarters: “communication aids in the progress of the human family” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, officially opened the headquarters of the new television station RPP TV (television from the Catholic radio station “Radio Programas Peru”). T ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Climate of violence continues: another two young priests assassinated in Bogotà Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – Another two priests were killed in Bogotà on Wednesday evening, 26 January. According to the message from the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the murder of the two priests occurred in the q ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - “At the service of human dignity and common good”: Bishops in the context of the April elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of its Plenary Assembly the Peruvian Episcopal Conference issued a document that presents a reflection for the community, in the context of the election for President of the Republic w ...
• 27 January 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The Church's missionary work demands an ongoing conversion”: Bishop Moronta at the Symposium of Missiology Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – At the International Symposium of Missiology, held in Caracas (see Fides 19/1/2011; 26/1/2011), Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez of San Cristobal (Venezuela), devoted his opening addr ...