America
2 July 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Catholic groups encourage votes for candidates who defend life and the family
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Through the Internet, several Catholic groups are calling on the faithful to choose candidates who respect Christian values.
Several Catholic organizations are using the Internet to prom ...
1 July 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Heavy rains augment precarious conditions in Brazil
Branquinha (Agenzia Fides) – In June, heavy rain falls in the Brazilian states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, have caused 40 deaths and 600 missing persons. The situation became dramatic when rising water levels in the two ...
30 June 2010
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Church responds to violence on public transport: “need for real operational plans, timely concrete actions”
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – Violence carried out by the feared "maras" (youth gangs) of Central America continues to claim lives in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 20, 17 p ...
30 June 2010
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Haiti among group of Ibero-American cooperation countries
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – Representatives from 22 countries attended the Tuesday, June 29th celebration of "Ibero-American Cooperation Day" held every year, this time celebrated in the Dominican Republic, to prom ...
28 June 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - “A strategy for promoting media for indigenous peoples”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Third National Congress of Indigenous Communication, which seeks to structure a bill to recognize the right to information and communication of indigenous peoples, will be held June 29 ...
28 June 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Making room for dialogue means increasing options for the poor,” Final Declaration from Social Week in Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) – "For us, as disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ, the great cause of social justice and social inclusion is fundamental mission, the central axis of the Pastoral Ministry." These w ...
25 June 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National meeting of vocation animators for religious life
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From 28 June to 3 July, in Cochabamba (Bolivia), consecrated persons, men and women religious, temporary and perpetual vows, novices, chaplains, spiritual directors, active in vocation disc ...
24 June 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Aid for victims of torrential rains, Caritas launches national campaign
Alagoas (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil CNBB informed Fides that Caritas Brazil, region north-east 2, has launched a campaign SOS Pernambuco e Alagoas, to aid victims of torrential rains in ...
24 June 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Human trafficking: the local Church's “ constant and ongoing ” concern
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Commission for Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), in collaboration with the National Secretariat for Justice of the Ministry of Justice ...
24 June 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - First Mission Congress for Seminarians: "fruit of increased missionary awareness in our local Church
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Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Jesús Pérez, Archbishop of Sucre, commenting Bolivia's First Mission Congress for Seminarians (see Fides 19/06/2010), shared with Fides his joy and enthusiasm for the pre ...
23 June 2010
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tons of foodstuff allowed to go bad: a “sin which cries to heaven”, Catholic Bishops denounce
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Venezuela have called for a "thorough and detailed" investigation into the scandal of thousands of tons of food products imported by the government and lost because they were al ...
23 June 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - 14th National Mission Congress CONAMI: “With Mary, we share our faith with joy”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Mexico will celebrate the 14th National Mission Congress CONAMI in Lazaro Cardenas City, in the state of Michoacan, 21 - 24 October 2010. In a special statement Bishop Rafael ...
22 June 2010
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Human trafficking and drugs trade: major areas of transnational organised crime
New York (Agenzia Fides) – Trafficking of human persons and the drugs trade, two major areas of transnational organised crime, were the subject of an intervention by the Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nation ...
22 June 2010
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church calls for dialogue to address the issue of vendors expelled from the capital
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador today said frank dialogue was necessary to solve the problem of hundreds of street vendors expelled from the capital, a measure which came in force on 1 ...
22 June 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The number of persons killed in torrential rains in north-east Brazil rises to 32
Alagoas (Agenzia Fides) – Two days of uninterrupted rain, over 21 towns in Zona da Mata, the Paraiba valley and Costa Nord of Brazil's Alagoas State, left 32 dead, about 80,000 people homeless and more than one thousa ...
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