America

• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Election details Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - About 4.7 million Haitians have the right to vote and to choose a successor to President René Preval along with 11 senators and 99 deputies. The presidential candidate of Haiti, Mirlande ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 3rd CIMI Seminar concludes on “Climate change and major projects” Luziânia (Agenzia Fides) - The Third National Seminar on the Formation of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), which met in Luziânia (GO) from Monday, 22, on “Climate change and major projects”, concluded yest ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - For Sunday's elections, the Bishops suggest to “choose leaders who will work for all the population” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – “On Sunday the 28 elections will go ahead,” said the current President of Haiti, René Preval. On the eve of the presidential and legislative elections, the population of Haiti is e ...
• 25 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Promote freedom of religion and conscience in all its forms, individual and collective”: Religious Freedom Day Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Thursday, 25 November, the Argentine Council for Religious Freedom (CALIR), under the auspices of the Directorate General for Religious Affairs of the City of Buenos Aires' Governmen ...
• 25 November 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - New website for Caritas Guatemala, always in aid of the poorest Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas Guatemala announces with happiness and enthusiasm the release of its new website: www.caritasguatemala.org. The page has a number of changes to it due to issues noted by a Worki ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' comments on public education laws La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB) has presented six observations on the draft education bill (the bill was tabled by Avelino Sinani and Elizardo Perez), as reported by Limbert Ayarde, execu ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Year for Life: a Vigil for Life in all dioceses, to join the Pope Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – In support of the Vigil for Life called by the Pope, and the Year for Life organized by the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, Saturday, 27 November in all dioceses, parishes and chapels ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From the Amazon Forest to Sierra Leone, Tapauá assists Kamabai mission Tapauá (Agenzia Fides) – From 2006, when a group of lay Catholics in the city of Tapauà attended a meeting of missionary activities at the headquarters of the mission in Labrea, the parish of Santa Rita de Tapau deci ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Yet another priest assassinated in Brazil; from Sao Luis, ordained this September Sao Luis (Agenzia Fides) – Father Bernardo Muniz Rabelo Amaral, aged 28, Assistant Pastor in the city of Humberto de Campos (about 120 km from Maranhão), passed away on the evening of Saturday, 20 November in Sao Luis ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meeting in Lima for 25 years of the Christian Life Movement Lima (Agenzia Fides) – This year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Christian Life Movement (CLM), and thousands of people will gather on 27 November at the College of La Recoleta in Lima, Peru's ca ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops of Nicaragua attend SEDAC meeting in Costa Rica Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua are in Alajuela, Costa Rica, for the annual meeting of the Bishops' Secretariat of Central America (SEDAC), held from 22 to 26 November, where they attended a press con ...
• 22 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - “They've closed the border, but only to the poor”: Claretian Missionaries' testimony Jimani (Agenzia Fides) - “In Jimani, the small town on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, security measures have been taken to make sure cholera does not enter the Dominican Republic. The most serious ...
• 20 November 2010
  AMERICA - "Countries should not only devote effort to the control of migration flow, but also to the protection of migrants and the fight against organized crime," Archbishop Vegliò concludes Continental Meeting of the Pastoral Care of Migrants Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Continental Meeting for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in Latin America was held in the capital of Colombia, November 17 to 20, on the theme "Towards a better pastoral economic and ...
• 18 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Promoting and supporting the activity of the Holy Childhood Association Carcarañá (Agenzia Fides) – About 44 youth missionaries from different parts of the Archdiocese of Rosario took part in an Initiation of the Workshop in the city of Carcarañá, organized by the Pontifical Society of ...
• 17 November 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops call for peace in tensions with Nicaragua: “Violence has never achieved anything but destruction” San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Costa Rica has called the country's government and the population to maintain open channels of dialogue and negotiations and prevent any manifestation of violence as a solution ...