America

• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty, few infrastructures and precarious preventive measures: fertile terrain for Chikungunya virus Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cases of the Chikungunya virus (acute fever) registered in Venezuela are double those found in 37 other countries. According to the All-American Health Organisation, the pandemic can be consid ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Torreón calls for “more proposals and less protests to achieve peace” Torreón (Agenzia Fides) – “More proposals and less protests, to restore peace” Bishop José Guadalupe Galván Galindo of the diocese of Torreón, Coahuila (Mexico), urged the diocese community, preparing to celebr ...
• 5 December 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – Electoral certificate renewal: Bishops speak out Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) – The news that renewal of electoral certificates could close on 31 December, is causing long lines in front of CSE, Supreme Electoral Council offices. General elections in Nicaragua are sched ...
• 5 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace talks resume December 10 Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian government and FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Forces) will resume peace talks on 10 December. The announcement was made yesterday from Cuba in a joint statement by delegations of ...
• 4 December 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Paraguayan Missionaries join fellow Paraguayans in Argentina to celebrate Our Lady of Caacupé AMERICA/PARAGUAY – Paraguayan Missionaries join fellow Paraguayans in Argentina to celebrate Our Lady of Caacupé Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 3 December, a group of 25 Paraguayan missionaries, departed fo ...
• 3 December 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - COP 20: world meeting for climatic justice, churches together to care for creation Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Members and partners of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have called for the promotion from a faith perspective of a cause for climatic justice during the 20th United Nations Climate Change Co ...
• 3 December 2014
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Poverty grows in urban communities while diminishing in rural areas Kingston (Agenzia Fides) – One fifth of the Jamaican population grows steadily poorer. According to an estimate by the Jamaican Institute of Planning, the poverty rate is rising in cities while falling in rural areas, ...
• 3 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop Alba: "We cannot allow criminals steal our streets, steal our peace" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We cannot allow criminals steal our streets” Bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, Catholic Bishop of La Paz in Baja California Sur (Mexico), underlined as he urged the Catholic community to ta ...
• 2 December 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In Haiti, the needs are still so many, the commitment of the religious women of Brazil continues Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - An assessment of the project that the missionary Church of Brazil is carrying out in Haiti, emerged immediately after the earthquake that devastated the country (see Fides 21/02/2011), was made ...
• 2 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Satisfaction for the release of the General, but it is necessary to resume talks for a definite peace Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - After his release and that of other two people who had been kidnapped with him, which occurred on Sunday evening, November 30, General Rubén Darío Alzate Mora held a press conference the ...
• 1 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Children are half of the victims of landmines and prohibited explosive devices Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the NGO "Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines" (CCCM) prepare a report regarding the victims of this scourge. In 2013, the Latin American Country was the second in the world with the la ...
• 1 December 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Novena to Our Lady of Caacupé, opportunity to reflect on the rights of the defenseless and the responsibilities of politicians Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Lucio Alfert, O.M.I., Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pilcomayo (Paraguay), celebrated yesterday, November 30, Mass in the Basilica of Caacupé, for the third day of novena i ...
• 1 December 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - A Commission to save the country from the crisis Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haitian President Michel Martelly has announced the formation of a Commission composed of "credible and honest people" to study the solutions to end the crisis. The announcement was given ...
• 29 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Observatory for Reconciliation and Peace is created Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - To support peace negotiations with the FARC and to work for national reconciliation. This is the purpose of the Observatory for reconciliation and peace, recognized by the National Conciliation C ...
• 29 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - After improvised lessons in the street, minors are forced to bring chairs in a house used as a school every day Cuernavaca (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 90 school children between 5 and 10 years of age enrolled in a school with no name of recent construction located in Colonia Lázaro Cárdenas of the city of Cuernavaca, came toget ...