America

• 18 January 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops of Brazil on National Human Rights Program Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Brazil have rejected the legalization of abortion, civil unions between homosexuals, and the right to adoptions by these unions, three of the proposals contained in the Plan of H ...
• 18 January 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - V National Contest on Communication: “Protecting nature, a commitment to life” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Association for Communication, SIGNIS ECUADOR, is organizing the Fifth National Communication Competition entitled "Carlos Crespi," which aims at recognizing and encouraging journalis ...
• 16 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Monfortians: 9 seminarians dead, one priest missing Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a time for tears; there is desolation everywhere, and the Montfortians have not been spared," writes Fr. Maurice, SMM, from Haiti, where the Montfort Missionaries (Company of Mary) ...
• 16 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Daughters of Wisdom: 3 sisters dead, another three still under the rubble Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Three Sisters from the Congregation of Daughters of Wisdom, of the Monfortian Family, died in their assisted living home in Carrefour, which was leveled by the earthquake: Sr. Marie-Flo ...
• 16 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Redemptorists: Church of San Gerardo reduced to rubble, students sleeping in the yard Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Father Joseph P. Dorcey, C.Ss.R., Secretary General of the Congregation of the Redemptorists, has sent Fides a report on the situation of the members present in the country affected by ...
• 16 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dominicans: all priests survived, one Sister wounded Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Agenzia Fides has contacted the Secretary General of the Curia of the Dominican Fathers, who reported a recent communication with Father Manuel Rivero, OP (Vicar of Haiti) on the situat ...
• 16 January 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Solidarity with Haitian victims, from Latin American Bishops' Conference Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conferences of Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile have announced the creation of a national collection to aid the rescue of the Haitian population which currently lacks ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - “The aftershocks continue, although less violent. We are in need of everything and will be for quite awhile!” Apostolic Nuncio tells Fides Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in great distress. We have no water reserves and gas stations are closed. There is no electricity. Here in Port-au-Prince things are difficult. We are in need of everything; we ne ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception: sisters are fine, although buildings have suffered tremendous damage Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Superior General of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception (MIC) has contacted Agenzia Fides to inform that the Congregation has suffered greatly in the earthquake in Haiti. ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - 5 Camillian seminarians have returned home fine and are already at work in the hospital, working without anesthesia Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – "All 5 Camillian seminarians returned to our house and are well and are working in our hospital." This is good news that the Superior of the Camillian Community of Port-au-Prince, Fathe ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - “Haiti was already an extremely poor country before the earthquake. Now we are desperate,” says Fr. Lovera, Director of the “Saint Camille” Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Camillian Missionaries are at the forefront in the earthquake tragedy. Fr. Lovera is the Director of the "Saint Camille" Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince, that in these hours wa ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI): one student dead, damages to provincial house and scholasticate destroyed Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate have been in Haiti since January 1943, and now have about 130 members, including two bishops and most of whom are Haitians. As Agenzia Fides has ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Many Salesians still missing, over 200 students buried under the fallen building in Port-au-Prince Enam Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Knowledge about the current situation of the Salesians in Haiti is still limited and incomplete some two days after the earthquake which devastated the capital. It is still difficult to ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian emergency in Haiti: Daughters of Mary Help of Christians at work on the site Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - We have still have fresh in our minds the dramatic images that TV and newspapers around the world are portraying as a witness to the catastrophe caused by the earthquake that struck the c ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - First humanitarian aid interventions open doors, although there is fear of epidemics Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The volunteers of the Movement for the Struggle Against World Hunger (in Italian, MLFM) are working with the local community of Les Cayes to gather essential items, water and gasoline. ...