America

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  6 June 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - State and Church united to respond to the educational emergency in the Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón Oventeni (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 120 students between the ages of 12 and 18 from the 48 indigenous Ashéninka communities in Gran Pajonal are hosted during the school year at the Oventeni student residence, in th ...
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  29 May 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian Crisis: Salesian missionaries provide meals to 2,300 young Haitians Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In a context where the humanitarian and social crisis seems to have no end, the Salesian missionaries are committed to ensuring adequate nutrition for adolescent boys and girls. In coll ...
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  19 May 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - In an atmosphere of celebration, joy and gratitude, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrated 125 years of presence in the country Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – On April 29, 2025, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), together with young people, lay people and the Salesian Family, celebrated the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the firs ...
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  10 May 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies: Pope Leo XIV is a Man of God and a missionary Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - Affection, gratitude, and emotion. These are the feelings that resonate in the words of Father José Hipolito Purizaca Sernaque, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru, w ...
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  8 May 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - "No matarás": the country's bishops condemn the murder of a group of workers at the hands of criminal gangs Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we reaffirm our call to build a society in which life is respected and the dignity of every person is protected, and development is accompanied by justice, honesty, and charity," said ...
• 16 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The State is collapsing, opening the door to criminal gangs" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The Haitian people are a martyred people (...) and the Church that is in communion with this people lives this suffering in its flesh", said Father Marc-Henry Siméon, spokesman for the ...
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  15 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Children and adults of the Pourcine Pic Makaya community: a people of heroes by Father Massimo Miraglio* Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – Every morning, around 250 children walk for hours along steep and dangerous paths to reach the primary and nursery school in Pourcine Pic Makaya, wh ...
• 15 April 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Pilcomayo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Miguel Fritz, O.M.I., until now apostolic administrator of Pilcomayo, Paraguay, as vicar apostolic of the same apostolic vicariate. The Rever ...
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  14 April 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nazareno Lanciotti, missionary and martyr, will be proclaimed Blessed São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – "We have come to kill you because you bother us too much." These were the last words Father Nazareno Lanciotti heard before he was shot dead in his rectory in Jauru, in the Brazilian state ...
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  4 April 2025
  AMERICA/USA - Kansas: Priest shot in rectory Seneca (Agenzia Fides) – Father Arul Carasala, parish priest of the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Seneca, a city in the north east of Kansas, was shot dead by a man on Thursday, April 3, while in his rectory. Acc ...
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  3 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Mirebalais: Two nuns killed by armed gangs Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Two nuns of the "Little Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus" were murdered in Mirebalais, in central Haiti, by members of armed gangs who infiltrated the area since last Monday. T ...
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  3 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Foyer Saint Camille" inaugurates ward for premature babies Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Providing modern care environments that are better adapted to the needs of the population and adequate for staff is one of the key elements of our health plan to make the network of heal ...
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  28 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A society that gives space to God, that seeks to be guided by Him is a society that is a sign of hope La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - "Social pastoral care is a fundamental dimension of the Church's mission, which seeks to make the Kingdom of God present amidst the difficulties and challenges of daily life," said Dante Braida ...
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  20 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “To have come out of hell, and to proclaim that Christ is risen”. The Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo network and the new mission of Father Charly
  by Monica Poletto Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A great celebration accompanied the seventeenth ‘anniversary’ of the Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo in Buenos Aires, which ...
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  19 March 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A network of paths for human and economic development in Pourcine Pic Makaya Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - In Pourcine Pic Makaya, the sowing season is coming to an end. The next two months will be difficult for the people awaiting the harvest. They have "put everything they have in the form of mone ...