America

• 23 October 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Napo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Celmo Lazzari, C.S.I., until now vicar apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos, as vicar apostolic of the apostolic vicariate of Napo, Ecuador. Bishop Ce ...
• 22 October 2024
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Confirmation of the Director of the PMS, Fr. Antonio de Jesùs Mascorro Tristàn, MG Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), confirmed Fr. Antoni ...
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  21 October 2024
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In the state of Chiapas: Indigenous priest and human rights activist murdered San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Chiapas shares in these hours pain and prayers after the murder of an indigenous priest parish priest in the Cuxtitali neighborhood of San Cristobal ...
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  21 October 2024
  AMERICA/USA - US Presidential election: Trump and Harris' positions on abortion Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Both are against life - the one who throws out migrants and the one who kills children". "I cannot decide. I am not American and I will not go to vote there. But let it be clear: sending mi ...
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  14 October 2024
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - One month after the murder of pastoral worker Juan Antonio López: Three suspects arrested in Honduras by Laura Gomez Ruiz Tocoa (Agenzia Fides) - On September 14, Juan Antonio López (46), married and father of two daughters, coordinator of social pastoral care in the diocese of Trujillo and founding member of the P ...
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  8 October 2024
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Saint Therese of the Child Jesus at the center of a novena for World Mission Sunday New York (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not want to be a missionary for just a few years, but I would like to have been one since the creation of the world and to be one until the end of time", said Saint Therese of the Child J ...
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  7 October 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Archbishop of Port-au-Prince after massacre: "The people are exhausted" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The people are exhausted. They are asking the State for help," said the President of the Haitian Bishops' Conference and Archbishop of Port-au-Prince Max Leroy Mésidor, in his condolenc ...
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  25 September 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Massimo Miraglio: “With courage and determination, we continue our commitment so that people will one day have a decent standard of living” by Antonella Prenna Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the international spotlight on Haiti has long since faded, newspapers and media no longer report on it, the situation has not changed or improved in any way". ...
• 24 September 2024
  AMERICA/PERU - Bilingual education for indigenous peoples: lack of teachers and adequate infrastructure Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - "We need authorities to defend the rights of girls, boys and young people of indigenous peoples, because they cannot continue to be excluded," says Mariluz Canaquiri, a member of the indigenous ...
• 21 September 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Appointment of special envoy for the celebration of the Sixth American Missionary Congress (CAM6) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as his special envoy to the celebration of the Sixth American Missionary ...
• 16 September 2024
  AMERICA/CANADA - Monsignor John Boissonneau, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Toronto (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of th ...
• 5 September 2024
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Father Roger J. Landry appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 23, 2024 Cardinal Luis Antonio G.Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Roger J. Lan ...
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  19 August 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Eln proclaims an "armed strike". The bishops: "Violence is never the answer" Bogota (Fides News Agency) - The stalemate in peace negotiations and the dialogue crisis between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the government have plunged Colombia into an increasingly tightening spiral of viole ...
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  9 August 2024
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - “Witnesses of Christ with the power of the Spirit”. The Pontifical Mission Societies towards CAM6 Comayagua (Agenzia Fides) - The American Missionary Congress (CAM6), scheduled for next November in Puerto Rico, is getting closer and closer and the direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Honduras has or ...
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  7 August 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On the feast of Saint Cajetan: priests from working-class districts raise the alarm about unemployment Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Work is a "criterion of order" for individual and family life. But today in Argentina, work opportunities are falling "like the pieces in a game of dominoes". This is what the priests of th ...