America

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  2 December 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Pope writes to the people of God in Nicaragua: "Faith and hope work miracles" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Be assured that faith and hope work miracles," writes Pope Francis in a letter to the people of God in Nicaragua, on the occasion of the novena for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception o ...
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  25 November 2024
  AMERICA - 40 years after the Beagle conflict: when the Holy See managed to avoid war between Chile and Argentina Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The confrontation seemed inevitable. Chile and Argentina were on the brink of war over sovereignty of the Beagle Channel, a strategic passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At a ...
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  21 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Pope's message to the participants of CAM6: The source of the mission is the joy of the disciples after the encounter with the risen Christ Ponce (Agenzia Fides) – “We cannot give what we do not possess, we cannot express what we have not experienced, what our eyes have not seen, or what our hands have not touched”. Therefore, “the foundation of the ...
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  21 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - CAM6, the Pope: one becomes a proclaimer of the Gospel only with the Holy Spirit Puerto Rico (Agenzia Fides) - "As on the day of Pentecost" the Apostles were "filled with the Holy Spirit" and sent by the Lord "to the ends of the earth", so today "we too, having received the same Spirit, have become ...
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  20 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Archbishop Nappa at CAM6: Let us all return to the "first Announcement", the ever-living source of all the Church's work Ponce (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of the sixth edition of the American Missionary Congress (see Fides, 19/11/2024) is underway, which began yesterday with a festive and participatory Eucharistic celebration in the " ...
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  19 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - VI American Missionary Congress: more than 12,000 participants expected Ponce (Agenzia Fides) - More than 12,000 people are expected today in the city of Ponce for the official opening ceremony of the VI American Missionary Congress (CAM6). The opening of CAM6 will take place at 8:00 a.m. l ...
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  19 November 2024
  AMERICA/GUADELOUPE - The periphery at the heart of the Salesians Les Abymes (Agenzia Fides) - "Perhaps many in the Salesian religious family do not know where the island of Guadeloupe is. It is as if it were on the geographical 'periphery'. But the periphery is the heart of the work o ...
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  17 November 2024
  AMERICA/USA - Archbishop Nappa to the representatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the USA: May gratitude be the source of your contribution to the mission of the Universal Church San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "We must begin by recognizing the extraordinary generosity of the universal Church towards the Church in the United States. Until 1908 the United States was considered a mission territory and t ...
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  16 November 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - President of the Bishops, CELAM expelled, regrets "the events that afflict the pilgrim Church in Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Sadness for "the events that afflict the pilgrim Church in Nicaragua". This is the message that CELAM, the Episcopal Council of Latin America and the Caribbean, addressed to Cardinal Leopoldo Jo ...
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  15 November 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Our Lady of the Consolata: a missionary parish in Bogota Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Six African theology students of the Consolata Missionaries, the parish priest Fr. Naftaly Matogi (IMC) and the assistant parish priest Fr. José Lorenzo Gómez Sánchez (IMC) form the "Apostoli ...
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  14 November 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In January, the process for the canonization of Sister Clare Crockett will begin Quito (Agenzia Fides) - On January 25, the cause for the Canonization of Sister Clare Crockett, an Irish missionary of the Congregation of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother (‘Siervas del Hogar de la Madre-S ...
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  13 November 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Catholic priests can no longer enter public hospitals for the Anointing of the Sick Managua (Agenzia Fides) - According to local press reports, Catholic priests will no longer be able to enter public hospitals to administer the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. After the expulsion of about a quart ...
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  13 November 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Instability and violence: "Missionaries literally risk their lives every day" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Continuing to work, to keep the hospital in Port-au-Prince open and to continue with all the activities we have in Haiti is becoming more and more difficult and the Missionaries literall ...
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  8 November 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On the VIII World Day of the Poor: charity "does not confer dignity" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "In our beloved Archdiocese of Buenos Aires we want to dedicate the month of November to a careful reflection on how we treat the poor, how we accompany them, the challenges we face and to ...
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  7 November 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Comboni community in the suburbs of Cali: between drugs, poverty and global warming Cali (Agenzia Fides) – “I think that, in an environment where everyone feels despised, it is good news to find a priest who is not ashamed to sit next to them and listen to them.” This is what Father Franco Nascimb ...