Americas News
Pro-life congress in Colombia calls on politicians to defend life and family
Participants of the 11th International Congress for the Defense of Life taking place in Medellin, Colombia, issued a statement on... Read more
Pro-lifers crash 'death line' in Argentina
A telephone service set up by the pro-abortion organization “Women on Waves” to explain how to get illegal abortions in... Read more
Bishops of Mexico call on drug lords to abandon violence
The Bishops of Mexico announced this week they would be praying for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe and... Read more
Archbishop warns Chavez is curtailing democracy in Venezuela
The vice president of the Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, Archbishop Baltazar Porras, warned this week that with the closing of... Read more
Pro-abortionists deceiving Peruvians with ex-Dominican friar
The Peruvian affiliate of Catholics for a Free Choice will begin operations in the country with a conference by an... Read more
Brazil commemorates 300th anniversary of 'Flying Father'
The Santos Historical and Geographical Institute in Brazil is preparing to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the invention by Father... Read more
Mexican bishop announces laicization of priest accused of sexual abuse of minors
Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martinez of Tehuacan announced this week the Holy See has approved the removal of “Nicolas Aguilar Rivera... Read more
Material goods cannot be only goal for Christians, says Cardinal Rivera
The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, said this week Christians should not make material goods the “goal... Read more
Unknown assailants rob Argentinean bishop and priests
Argentinean Bishop Fernando Carlos Maletti and seven other priests who were with him at the diocesan chancery, were robbed by... Read more
Nuncio in Mexico says clerical abuse merits ecclesial and civil punishment
In a meeting with local reporters, the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop Christopher Pierre, said that any case of proven... Read more
Church does not approve of therapeutic abortion, says diocesan official in Nicaragua
The Pastoral Vicar of the Archdiocese of Managua, Bishop Miguel Mantica, said last week the Catholic Church does not support... Read more
Argentinean archbishop stresses supernatural dimension of priesthood
Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, Argentina encouraged the faithful this week to focus on the supernatural dimension of the... Read more
Archdiocese of Mexico City denies Cardinal Rivera has Facebook profile
The Archdiocese of Mexico City said this week that a Facebook page supposedly created by Cardinal Norberto Rivera is the... Read more
Church does not approve of therapeutic abortion, reiterates diocesan official in Nicaragua
The Pastoral Vicar of the Archdiocese of Managua, Msgr. Miguel Mantica, said last week that the Catholic Church does not... Read more
Chilean rector calls Caritas in Veritate ‘essential reading’
The rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Pedro Rosso, said last week that the new encyclical by Pope... Read more
Uruguayan Senate urged not to allow embryonic stem cell research
The John Paul II Institute of Bioethics of the Archdiocese of Montevideo has questioned a proposed bill by the Uruguayan... Read more
Bolivian bishops respond to attacks by President Evo Morales
In a recent statement the secretary-general of the Bolivian Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Jesus Juarez, responded to claims by President Evo... Read more
Drug traffickers issue death threats against three Mexican bishops
The spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Father Hugo Valdemar, told reporters this week that three bishops in Michoacan... Read more
Family fulfills mission when it transmits the Gospel, Brazilian archbishop states
The president of the Brazilian bishop’s Committee on Life and the Family, Archbishop Orlando Brandes of Londrina, said last week,... Read more
Mexican bishops call for end to violence in Michoacan
The bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Morelia in Mexico have called for an end to the violence that has... Read more
