America

• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "We should be the ones to offer that little or a lot we have to those who have lost everything": casualties mount from storm in Central America, Holy Father's appeal Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Dead, injured, and many left homeless, destroyed homes, roads covered with mud, isolated communities: there is still not yet an exact account of the damage left from Tropical Storm Agatha ...
• 4 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Sharing the joy of being disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ”: Ad Gentes Course 2010 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Colombia, Fr. Mario Alvarez Gómez, has sent Fides a statement on the "Ad Gentes Course 2010," which began May 31 and ends June 25 ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking: people like ourselves, human beings with a name, hopes and dreams, fears and disappointments Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “The starting point for ministering to migrants, refugees, trafficked persons is to understand their situation and all its components, personal, social, economic, political in the light of ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Pontifical Mission Societies honors Catholic journalists writing on Church's worldwide mission New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note recently sent to Fides from the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the USA, the PMS will be paying tribute to Catholic journalists who have de ...
• 2 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco prepares for HCA Missionary Congress on August 21 Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - "We missionary children sow hope for making a better place" is the theme of the Missionary Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (also known as “Missionary Childho ...
• 1 June 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Regina Coeli Radio's new website, to spread the Word of God on the Internet Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) – The "new face" of the website for Regina Coeli Radio, which belongs to the Diocese of Santa Maria de Los Angeles, has been launched. The new site has been defined as more simple and modern ...
• 31 May 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victim count rises following tropical storm Agatha Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – The death toll in Guatemala due to landslides caused by tropical storm "Agatha" has risen to 73, according to an official count. 49 victims were buried by a landslide in the department ...
• 31 May 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Presidential elections, Church calls for a more “fraternal, supportive, and peaceful society” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The presidential candidate of the Party of the U (Partido Social de Unidad Nacional), Juan Manuel Santos, won (according to local press) in the first round of presidential elections in Colombia, ...
• 29 May 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Papal concern for Latin America evident in support for Continental Mission; Cardinal Terrazas visits Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and President of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference, was recently in Rome for a short stay and a meeting with Pope Benedict X ...
• 29 May 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - First Assembly for Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins concludes Tocantins (Agenzia Fides) – Organized by Cimi (Indigenous Missionary Council), the First Meeting of Indigenous Peoples of Goias and Tocantins was held May 24 to 27, on the Campus of the State University of Tocantins, i ...
• 28 May 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Franciscan Missionaries of Mary present for a century in Peru, educating youth and promoting dignity of women Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) – The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) have started the celebrations for the centennial anniversary of their presence in Peru. Sunday, May 16, Archbishop Javier Del Rio Alba, Archbishop of ...
• 28 May 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Things slowly returning to normal at Radio Soleil in Haiti Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – After the January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, Radio Soleil was no longer able to broadcast its programs. Since then, it has gradually resumed its activity, but very slowly. Tod ...
• 27 May 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The Church in Chile is living out the Continental Mission with enthusiasm,” says Bishop Jorge Vega Velasco, SVD, newly ordained bishop in Chile and PMS National Director Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Jorge Vega Velasco, SVD, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Chile and a speaker at the General Assembly of the PMS which was held in Rome last week, in an inter ...
• 27 May 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Our homeland is a gift we have received”: Catholic Church on the Bicentennial of Argentina Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “The proposal of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, which reflects the thinking and wishes of many, is becoming more timely and necessary: working together in all areas that m ...
• 24 May 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Fr. Osvaldo Leone, National Director of the PMS in Argentina: enthusiasm of youth, “who wish to spread the joy of being missionary disciples of Christ among their peers” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Osvaldo Pablo Leone, National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Argentina, participating in the General Assembly of the PMS held in Rome last week, in an interview with Fides ...