America

• 7 July 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Capuchin Fonte Colombo Fraternity at Porto Alegre has cared for HIV positive persons since 1996 Porto Alegre (Agenzia Fides) - One most important events in the conversion of St Francis of Assisi was his meeting with a man suffering from leprosy. From then on Saint Francis lived in profound communion with the exclud ...
• 2 July 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The work of Conventual Friars Minor to assist poor people and street children produces vocations Palmira (Agenzia Fides) – The presence of Conventual Franciscans in Venezuela dates to 1978, when the first three missionaries left Italy and arrived in Guanare. From the early years the missionaries helped with pastor ...
• 1 July 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Archbishop Migliore to the UN: transparency of finance system immediate aid for poor countries and new rules for international trade must be priorities for the international community New York (Agenzia Fides) - Transparency of the financial system, integration of poor countries in the system of global trade, investments in food security and social expenses, short term economic interventions to allevi ...
• 1 July 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - The Mission of the Augustinians in Apurimac marks over half a century Apurimac (Agenzia Fides) – In the mid 1960s , Peruvian Bishop of Abancay, Mgr Alcides Mendoza Castro, asked the Order of St Augustine to open a Mission in the Apurimac Department. Having returned from a long pastoral v ...
• 25 June 2009
  AMERICA/HAITI - Campaign to support Haiti, the poorest country in Latin America Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Work of pontifical right Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has launched a campaign to support the people of Haiti, which suffers the drama of infantile under nourishment and extreme p ...
• 24 June 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the Year of the Priesthood “Adopt a priest ” Prayer Campaign, to obtain for priests the spiritual strength necessary for the mission Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The “Bonds of Marian Love” Movement based in Medellin (Colombia), has launched a prayer campaign “Adopt a Priest” as part of the Year of the Priesthood opened on 19 June. The aim of the campaign is to pray for one priest “as a commitment for this Year of the Priestho ...
• 22 June 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase with string”: Mexicans abandoned as far as 600km away from their villages. And Mexican women! Deported at the age of 17. The most vulnerable, in places where there is no one to help them. Nogales Arizona (Agenzia Fides) – We are in Nogales Arizona, a city which borders on Nogales Sonora, another city in Mexico. Hundreds of migrants deported from the United States back to Mexico pass through here every d ...
• 20 June 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “A suitcase with string”: “The coyotes want 3, 4, 5 thousand dollars for a border crossing. An average 200-300 thousand illegal immigrants every year … traffic of at least 600,000 dollars, not counting the drug circle " New York (Agenzia Fides) – “ The coyotes want 3, 4, 5 thousand dollars for a border crossing. An average 200-300 thousand illegal immigrants every year … traffic of at least 600,000 dollars, not counting the drug c ...
• 19 June 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Letter for Priests at the inauguration of the Year for Priests: “May we conform ourselves more each day to the image of Jesus, the Good Shepherd.” Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Nestor Herrera Heredia of Machala, President of the Commission for Ministers and Consecrated Life for the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, sent a letter to all the priests in the country f ...
• 16 June 2009
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church decries assassination of a priest and two seminarians and calls for a prompt investigation to determine perpetrators of the crime Ciudad Altamirano (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference has issued a statement in which they decry the murders of a priest and two seminarians, which took place on June 13 in Ciudad de Arcelia (Guerrero) an ...
• 16 June 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Letter from the Archbishop of Sucre to his priests: “The priestly vocation grows, develops, and remains faithful and fruitful, only in an intense relationship with Christ.” Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Jesus Perez Rodriguez, OFM, of Sucre has written a letter addressing all the priests of the diocese, for the beginning of the Year of the Priest, which will take place on June 19, Sol ...
• 15 June 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Following the assassination of a catechist working in Social Ministry, the Church asks that civilians not be caught up in the conflict Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Secretariat for Social Ministry in Colombia issued a statement in response to the murder of Jorge Humberto Echeverri Garro, a 40-year-old professor and catechist, making an appeal ...
• 15 June 2009
  AMERICA/PANAMA - “The Eucharist: Source and Summit of Our Mission,” theme of the 39th Eucharistic Congress, during which the Archdiocese will launch its Great Mission Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Panama will officially launch its Great Mission, this Sunday, June 21, at 9am, in the Roberto Mano Arena of Piedra Duran, on the occasion of its 39th Eucharistic Congres ...
• 12 June 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Launching of “Compartir” Campaign 2009, to promote the reconstruction of churches destroyed in the 2007 earthquake Lima (Agenzia Fides) – With the title: “Earthquakes Destroy, Sharing Rebuilds,” the Peruvian Bishops' Conference will launch a campaign on June 12, entitled “Compartir” (Share) 2009. This year, the Bishops are ...
• 12 June 2009
  AMERICA/REPUBLICA DOMINICANA - Government rejects proposal to modify civil effects of marriage in Constitution Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – On June 10, the Revisionary Assembly vetoed a proposal aimed at acknowledging the civil effects of the marriages held in all the churches present in the Dominican Republic, in the Consti ...