America

• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Human trafficking: 8 out of 10 victims are minors, a crime to fight Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The Observatory on Crime of the Public Prosecutor reported that in Peru there were 1.112 reported cases of human trafficking from January 2008 to July 2012, and thus is considered as the second mos ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "People have great human qualities, despite the conflicts and extreme poverty" testimony of the Auxiliary of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of priests and the lack of economic self-sufficiency are the realities that characterize the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni, in Bolivia. "I have been here for seven years, first as a p ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victims and wounded in clashes between police and the indigenous Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHAR) has launched a warning for the murder of six indigenous people in Guatemala, following the clashes between the communities o ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country needs to change, do not choose the corrupt" urges Cardinal Maradiaga Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has invited Hondurans to vote the citizens who have the necessary skills to run the government in the coming elections,. ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of recovery while the population is still in crisis: schools reopened Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have gone by since the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed 90% of schools and 60% of hospitals, killing thousands of people, leaving more than 350 000 injured and causing more ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Avoid violence and resort to dialogue": Mgr. Gualberti intervenes in the miners’ conflict Colquiri (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad when reading the newspaper this morning that some of our brothers in Colquiri, who live in the same city and who are also relatives of the miners, clashed on Saturday, October 6, causi ...
• 8 October 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Chávez re-elected President, the Church invites him to the feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Hugo Chávez Frías, with 54.42% of the vote (according to the local press) won the presidential election, whereas Henrique Capriles, managed to obtain 44.97%. Hugo Chávez was re-elected presid ...
• 8 October 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Haiti thanks Caritas Mexico, which has never stopped bringing aid since the 2010 earthquake Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Pierre Dumas, Bishop of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoane, as President of Caritas Haiti, said: "We would like to thank the Mexican Episcopal Conference, that after the earthquake ...
• 5 October 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 10 days after the beginning of dialogue between the government and FARC: the Church has always worked for peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tunja, former President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga said that the Catholic hierarchy will contribute all that is needed to ...
• 5 October 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Taxi strike blocks the capital, Archbishop appeals for calm and dialogue Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Managua (Nicaragua) informs that the ecclesiastical authority, after meeting with the leaders of the union of taxi drivers in the capital who had sought the intervention of th ...
• 4 October 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - UN Report: 400,000 earthquake victims still in tents Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 400,000 earthquake victims in Haiti in January 2010 are still living in tents, which have increasingly deteriorated due to lack of resources: the alarm is from a recent United Nati ...
• 3 October 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "I do not want to go back": every week 200 Honduran children are repatriated El Corinth (Agenzia Fides) - From two border towns of Honduras, Aguas Calientes and El Corinto, where about 200 minors return every week, arrives the testimony of Sister Lydia Mara Silva de Souza, National Coordinator fo ...
• 3 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A Missionary Fair to explain DOMUND Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for World Mission Day (Domund) which is celebrated this month. In the Archdiocese of Cochabamba the "Missionary Fair ", organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies of this ju ...
• 2 October 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - During the missionary month Chile also lives the "Mission youth" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Chile lives the missionary month of October this year in a particularly intense way for the development of the "Mission youth." "We want to live it by enriching our faith and expressing our hop ...
• 2 October 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The vote is a positive way to decide the future of the country, but it must be done consciously" stresses the Archbishop of Mérida Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming presidential elections on October 7, the Archbishop of Mérida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, released a statement that was also sent to Fides Agency. Mg ...