America

• 25 October 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Malnutrition against the health of the poor: 17% of Guatemalans are poor Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of families in Guatemala survive on a very precarious diet of flour and cereals, they cannot economically afford protein foods like meat and dairy products which are essential for gr ...
• 24 October 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 20 000 protesters say "No to violence" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics attended the peaceful march through the streets of the capital, on Saturday, October 22, to express their condemnation to the violence that causes about 17 deaths i ...
• 24 October 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - At least 38 dead in Guatemala, thousands are homeless in Central America Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Since 11 October torrential rains lash Central America. Caritas Guatemala has sent a statement to Fides on the situation in the country after the heavy rains in past days. This natural di ...
• 22 October 2011
  AMERICA/CANADA - "We are witnesses, builders!": PMS Video for World Mission Day Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Day, Father André Gagnon, SJ, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the French-speaking Canada, addressed a message to all in French through ...
• 21 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - First Missionary Congress of Higher Education: "Apostles of a new evangelization" Santiago (Agenzia Fides ) - Today, Friday October 21, from 9 am to 6pm at the headquarters of the Pontifical University of Chile, the first Missionary Congress of Higher Education will be held. The Congress is organized ...
• 20 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The Mission and the challenges of the New Evangelization": Chile celebrates World Mission Sunday Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In view of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Chile have prepared a full calendar of activities at a national level, with a clear aim: "To awaken and renew the commitm ...
• 20 October 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Bill: Churches can also collect illegal weapons San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of different Puerto Rican Churches have positively welcomed the draft law providing for an amnesty of 60 days during which anyone with a weapon, can deliver it to the police or chur ...
• 19 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA- A member of the Social Pastoral, committed to the farmers and builders of peace in Popayan was assassinated Popayan (Agenzia Fides) - The National Secretariat of the Social Pastoral of the Bishops' Conference of Colombia issued a statement of solidarity with Luis Eduardo Garcia’s family, leader of the group of Popayan, assas ...
• 19 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Missionary Congresses, conferences, peace marches, missionary rosaries in parishes: Nicaragua prepares itself for World Mission Day Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the celebration of World Mission Sunday 2011 (Domund), the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Nicaragua have started the preparation for this great missionary celebration since th ...
• 18 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Forum "Migration and Peace": promoting human dignity and peaceful coexistence as a universal right for all Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 and 21 October 2011, as part of the National Week of the Migrant, the third International Forum on Migration and Peace will be held in Mexico City, organized by the National Institute ...
• 18 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - At the start the anti-corruption plan; the Cardinal of Monterrey: "clean house completely" Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Monterrey, defined the anti-corruption plan proposed by governor Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz very positive and addressed in the right direc ...
• 17 October 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA-The march for peace: a Catholic response to the wave of violence that kills 18 Guatemalans every day Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala (Guatemala), Mgr. Oscar Julio Vian Morales has invited the community to participate in the "March for Peace" and the Eucharist to be held on Octobe ...
• 17 October 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church assists more than 3,500 people affected by torrential rains San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - It has been raining constantly for 8 days and this phenomenon has devastated El Salvador causing 32 deaths so far. The danger now is landslides in areas of low mountains, floodings in citi ...
• 15 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Fraud and buying votes": Bishops alert the population and the authorities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the Church is present even in the farthest corner of Colombia, we know of vote buying, voter migration, counterfeit ballots and the fact that even the dead start to vote. We stress that no ...
• 14 October 2011
  AMERICA - "The Church in Latin America is alive, despite the difficult situation in different countries": interview with His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, President of CELAM Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From October 6 to 12, the members of the Presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), led by their President, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), ...