America

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  31 May 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Diploma in Communication and Catholic Media: "A difficult mission for which we must prepare" San Josè (Agenzia Fides) - According to information published by the Episcopal Conference, which reached Fides, the objective is to make communication in the local Church more professional. Monsignor Daniel Francisco Bl ...
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  30 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Monsignor Alvarez: "The only way to grow for a family, for a csociety, is the culture of encounter" Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Social, matrimonial and community humility and the culture of respect are important, respect for differences, forgiveness is also important... Christ from the cross teaches us forgiveness": u ...
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  25 May 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The Minister of the Environment to the Pastoral Commission for Ecology: working together to defend the common home Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The value of the work carried out by the Church and the importance of joining forces to protect our common home, as urged by Pope Francis, were highlighted during the recent meeting of the ...
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  25 May 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Meeting of Bishops and pastoral workers of human mobility on the border of Bolivia, Peru and Chile San Marcos de Arica (Agenzia Fides) - In the premises of the Emmaus Retreat House in the diocese of San Marcos de Arica, the VIII International Meeting of Pastoral Care of Human Mobility will be held from 23 to 26 May wi ...
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  24 May 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catechists, servants of the synodal spirit, to build a more fraternal Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Catechesis, in view of the "Day of the Catechist 2022", which will be celebrated in Chile on Saturday 28 May, the eve of the Ascension of the Lord, invited catechist ...
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  24 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "The Church is a teacher of dialogue, reconciliation and forgiveness, because that is what Jesus taught us" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us give God the opportunity to reach our hearts, let us give God the opportunity to be the center of our lives, in a special way to our Mother", urged Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop o ...
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  23 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishop of Matagalpa "finds himself confined, in prayer and fasting"; solidarity from Costa Rica and Panama Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Managua "publicly reaffirms its closeness in prayer to all the people and families who suffer from the effects of the socio-political problems in which we Nicaraguans continue ...
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  23 May 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - After the latest crimes, the Bishops ask "once again everyone to lay down their weapons and put an end to all forms of violence" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "All the limits of violence and human respect are overcome when a man of God is attacked and another is attacked within the house of the Lord, who deserves all our respect. We ask everyone o ...
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  21 May 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "The power of hope must push us to participate responsibly in the democratic process" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Bishops of Colombia, on the occasion of the presidential elections, invite all Colombians to participate actively and consciously in the upcoming gatherings": this is how the messa ...
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  21 May 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Listening and walking together": opening of the Laudato Sì week 2022 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the seventh anniversary of the Encyclical "Laudato Sì", of Pope Francis, the Argentine Church is celebrating, from May 22 to 29, "Laudato Sí Week 2022". On Sunday, May 2 ...
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  20 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and Peace": "the Church will continue to proclaim the Gospel, denouncing the social structures of sin" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Faithful to the mandate of the Lord and faithful to its vocation, the Church will continue to proclaim the Gospel, denouncing the social structures of sin, accompanying the people, especially t ...
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  20 May 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Meeting of the Bishops with the President of the Republic: "Listening is essential to perceive reality" San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica met yesterday in the Presidential House, together with the new President of the Republic, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, and some government minis ...
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  19 May 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - After the latest attack, the Bishops call for three days of prayer, fasting and common gestures for peace and respect for life Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the assassination of prosecutor Marcelo Daniel Pecci Albertini (see Fides, 12/5/2022), another attack took place in the town of Pedro Juan Caballero, where Mayor José Carlos Ace ...
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  19 May 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Catholic priest and in charge of the migrant's house found dead in Tecate Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - The bodies of 58 year old Catholic priest Jose Guadalupe Rivas and another unidentified person have been found on a ranch in Tecate. The priest ran the Casa del Migrante de Nuestra Señora de Gu ...
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  18 May 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Sister Churches": collection of Pentecost for the mission in Mozambique Porto Alegre (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Rio Grande do Sul (Regional Sul 3) took over the project of Mission Ad Gentes in the Archdiocese of Nampula, Mozambique, 28 years ago. Since 1994, nearly 70 missionaries have ...