America

• 22 February 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Funeral services held for Fr. Luis Parra, exemplary priest and Good Samaritan, killed on Ash Wednesday Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church of “El Sagrario” in Mexico City celebrated the funeral of Father José Luis Puerto Parra, assassinated on February 17, Ash Wednesday. The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Anton ...
• 22 February 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Go and present Jesus, with your testimony”: Cardinal Bergoglio at the close of the 28th International Missiology Course Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The Director of Communications of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Argentina, Fabio Rosso, sent a note to Agenzia Fides on the celebration of the closure of the XXVIII Internatio ...
• 20 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Collaboration between FAO and CARE for a cash-for-work program in Leogane Leogane (Agenzia Fides) – Over a month after the devastating earthquake which hit Haiti on 12 January, the FAO and the international humanitarian organization CARE have sounded the alarm of an impending food crisis in ...
• 19 February 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Passing of Bishop Roger Aubry: his passion for preaching the Gospel and his missionary spirit left an impact on all who knew him Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishop Conference has announced the return to the Father's House of Bishop Roger Aubry, Bishop Emeritus of the Apostolic Vicariate of Reyes. His death occurred on the morning of ...
• 19 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - A month after the earthquake: Italian families offer long-distance adoption to 4,000 children Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A month after the earthquake, 4,130 children in Haiti have been adopted at a distance by Italian families. This month, in fact, the Italian NGO active on the island experienced a real boom in mem ...
• 18 February 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Promoting an economy at the service of life: the objective of the Brotherhood Campaign Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Brotherhood Campaign that the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (CONIC) began on Ash Wednesday, February 17, aims at helping society in general to build an economy that is ...
• 18 February 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The slavery of money and injustice have their origins in the heart of man.” Papal Message read at opening of Brotherhood Campaign Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (CONIC), Pastor Carlos Möller, presided over the ecumenical celebration held for the opening of Ecumenical Brotherhood C ...
• 18 February 2010
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - An hour less on the Internet and an hour more in prayer: a Lenten proposal from Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras), asked the many “Internet-dependent” to consider the proposal for an "Internet fast" this Lent, to devote this ...
• 17 February 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - First water treatment plant installed for IDP camp in the capital Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Work continues in Haiti, where people are trying to return to normal life, although more and more of them have left the capital to rebuild their future, moving towards the north and sou ...
• 17 February 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - From Argentina to South Africa: evangelization is the daily priority for the Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma Ingwavuma (Agenzia Fides) – He is a young bishop of the Consolata Missionaries. Bishop Gerardo José Luis Ponce de Leon, age 48, was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in November 2008 as the Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma, ...
• 17 February 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Consolata Missionaries celebrate first anniversary of arrival in Mexico Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Consolata Missionaries have been in Mexico for a year now. Precisely in the same week as the feast of Blessed Joseph Allamano, founder of the Consolata Missionaries, who died February 16, 192 ...
• 16 February 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “So That in Christ, Our Peace, Mexico May Have a Decent Life”: Bishops' document against violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM) published a pastoral exhortation on February 15, entitled: "So That in Christ, Our Peace, Mexico May Have a Decent Life," as a "contribution from the ...
• 16 February 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Regional Forum: “National Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia” Monteria (Agenzia Fides) – Today, February 16, in the city of Monteria, in northern Colombia, the Regional Forum "National Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia" is being held. This event was convened by t ...
• 15 February 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Annual Assembly for coordinating missionary activity in the country Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador, members of the National Missionary Center (Cemin) of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, and representatives of major religious ...
• 15 February 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Australian youth on the missions in Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young Australians of the Christian Life Movement (MVC) have crossed the Pacific to arrive in Peru, where they have been carrying out an intense work of solidarity and evangelization th ...