America

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  7 January 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Card. Brenes asks to continue to work for the release of all political prisoners and for peace Managua (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to "those with social and political influence" to continue to work to ensure that all "people deprived of their freedom" are released in 2020, was addressed by Cardinal Leopoldo Br ...
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  7 January 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - "We must be the builders of the civilization of love": young people on mission in the country during the holidays Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,500 young people arrived on Saturday 4 January at the San Joaquin campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, full of enthusiasm to dedicate their summer holidays, just s ...
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  3 January 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Year of fraternity in the Archdiocese of Popayan: personal, social and ecological conversion Popayán (Agenzia Fides) - "The year of fraternity is an opportunity to heal wounds, grow in mutual trust, celebrate unity, starting at home, fraternize in neighborhoods and on the streets. It is a year to promote the cu ...
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  3 January 2020
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Assembly of Bishops: renewal of CELAM and Mesoamerican ecological ecclesial network Panama city (Agenzia Fides) - The Panamanian Bishops will meet for their ordinary plenary assembly number 2011, which will take place from Monday 6 to Friday 10 January 2020. The Panamanian Episcopal Conference (CEP) inf ...
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  2 January 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Te Deum for Independence Day canceled, the President announces changes Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Without a statement agreed between civil authorities and religious leaders, in Haiti the first day of the new year, the country's Independence Day from France, on January 1, 1804, the usu ...
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  23 December 2019
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops' appeal against violence and corruption: a truce for Christmas Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "To those who want to kill, we ask at least a truce for Christmas": said Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, in a mass celebrated yesterday, December 22, in which he launched a hea ...
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  21 December 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Christmas, an opportunity to "rekindle hope in a country that suffers" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Christmas is an opportunity to strengthen hope", given the "critical situation that worsens every day in Venezuela": said Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop emeritus of Caracas, noting tha ...
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  19 December 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catholic organizations dealing with migrants give life to the Chilean section of Red Clamor Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "We meet today, December 18, the day in which the United Nations Organization called for the International Day of Migrants. We chose this date because, with this act and the signing of this agr ...
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  19 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First meeting of Bishops with the new President: food crisis, drug addiction and prisons Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The urgent social needs that the country presents, in particular "the serious food situation, the growing demand for drugs by young people and the serious situation of prisons" were the sub ...
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  18 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For many, migration has become the only option to save one's life Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "New faces, very dynamic. Migration processes in Mexico" is the title of the report presented in Madrid on the occasion of the International Day of Migrants, which is celebrated today by Entrecul ...
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  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Life is sacred": Bishops outraged by the rules on the decriminalization of abortion San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Net refusal and indignation" for the signing of the so-called "technical regulation" on the decriminalization of abortion by President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, was expressed by the Episcopal ...
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  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Reaching out to migrants: joint initiative of the frontier dioceses of Brownsville and Matamoros Matamoros (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa del Migrante San Juan Diego and San Francisco, in the city of Matamoros, the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering the southern part of the US state of Texas, received three tons of ...
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  16 December 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' message: "We look forward to building a united Bolivia, in the God of life, above differences" Tarija (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their Extraordinary Assembly, held in Tarija on 11 and 12 December, the Bishops of Bolivia sent a message of peace to the Bolivian people for Christmas. The Bishops say they find mo ...
• 13 December 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Cesar Gustavo Baez Amarilla, CSSR Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 3, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Cesar Gustavo Baez Amarilla, of the Congregation of the Mo ...
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  13 December 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops: the right to freedom of expression does not cancel respect for people and their values Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Bishops Conference of Brazil (CNBB) rejects the recent events that, in the name of freedom of expression and artistic creativity, deeply attack the Christian faith. To ridicule th ...