America

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  25 May 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - All diocesan structures at the service of the country due to the Covid emergency Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the health emergency in Peru is taking unexpected dimensions despite the measures established by the authorities and the extension of isolation until 30 June. In Peru there are now ...
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  23 May 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - In isolation, the media have opened up new mission paths: social communications Day Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis has proposed to go out, not to remain still, to go on a mission, to go out to meet, living the spirit of the Church, and in a significant way, in this moment in which we are ' ...
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  23 May 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Covid-19, the Salesians close to the last through concrete gestures of solidarity" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The decline or cessation of economic activities and the worsening of small businesses in Peru, following the global health emergency, was a real tragedy: during this quarantine period, many famili ...
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  23 May 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops: the health crisis has highlighted the problems that the State has never faced and solved Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecuadorian Bishops have denounced that "it is a very serious crime" to take advantage of this painful situation to get rich fraudulently. In a declaration entitled "Crisis and hope", the Bisho ...
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  22 May 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Indigenous peoples: desperate situation that is worsing due to COVID-19 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuelan Bishops, together with the ecclesial organizations that deal with indigenous peoples, are in solidarity with the voice of the indigenous communities expressed in their "Document on th ...
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  22 May 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - The church creates the Covid-19 Spiritual Accompaniment Service, a quick response to those who need it Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America is going through the worst health emergency. The cases of COVID-19 are increasing in almost all the countries of the American continent. The Episcopal Conference of Chile, as a w ...
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  20 May 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - In his visit John Paul II encouraged us "not to give up the dream and commitment to a reconciled and fraternal Paraguay" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Year of the Word of God which celebrates our Church in Paraguay, God has sought ways to make the Good News more alive and present. The churches have been empty, but the pulpits have bee ...
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  20 May 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Covid 19: social pastoral workers are a bridge among people in need Malaga (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church continues to pursue its commitment by accompanying, supporting, protecting and coordinating efforts to guarantee the minimum necessary that communities need in this period of ...
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  19 May 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Active in prayer and on social networks: the PMS during the Covid-19 period Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic has questioned the mission in its very nature: the mission in fact involves sending, going out to meet your neighbor. However, right now, faced with this situation of isolation ...
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  19 May 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The "Amazon needs you" campaign begins Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Amazon needs you" is the campaign launched yesterday, May 18, on the social networks of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network in Brazil (Repam-Brazil) and of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  18 May 2020
  AMERICA/CUBA - "Dignity and freedom are worth our prayers with all our strength": the Archdiocese of Havana in the face of a health emergency Havana (Agenzia Fides) - Cuba is experiencing moments of discouragement in the face of the health emergency. The population, although informed of the need to follow the measures to maintain social distance to avoid the c ...
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  16 May 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Missionary rosary on social networks for Covid patients; the Bishops urgently ask for State aid Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Every Sunday the missionary rosary prayer is broadcast as a message of hope, faith and motivation for the faithful in this moment of pandemic on the social networks of the Pontifical Mission ...
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  16 May 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "Let's spread hope": Caritas competition, committed throughout the country since the first signs of the pandemic Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - For the sixth consecutive year Caritas Uruguay launches the national illustration competition on the theme "Let's spread hope". In this particular moment marked by the pandemic, Caritas invit ...
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  15 May 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Bishops express solidarity with indigenous communities during the pandemic Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux and chairman of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and chai ...
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  15 May 2020
  AMERICA - "Time of pandemic, time of opportunity in the light of Laudato Sì": Laudato Sì week Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - In communion with the initiatives promoted all over the world 5 years after the publication of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Sì" on the care of the common home, the Apostolic Vicariate of Ay ...