America

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  12 December 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - "For a fair and worthy Chile": meeting on the challenges of evangelization in the current situation Valparaiso (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral office of the diocese of Valparaiso and Caritas Valparaíso, have promoted a "Diocesan dialogue meeting for a fair and worthy Chile", which will be held on Saturday, December 14, ...
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  12 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First speech by new President Fernández: "We must get out of this situation with solidarity" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The new President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, recalled several expressions of Pope Francis in his first speech before the Legislative Assembly. The leader of the Frente de Todos, who ...
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  11 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 10 million pilgrims are expected from all over the world for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Everything is ready to celebrate the 488th anniversary of the apparitions of Santa Maria of Guadalupe al Tepeyac. According to data released by the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City and b ...
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  11 December 2019
  AMERICA - 12 December: Continental Day of Prayer for Peace, entrusted to Our Lady of Guadalupe Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American Episcopal Council (Celam) invites the Bishops' Conferences, ecclesial organizations, religious communities, apostolic movements and the entire people of God to join the "Conti ...
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  10 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception with the Nicaraguan community of Miami Miami (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Silvio José Baez, Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, who currently resides in the Vatican, was invited by the parish of Sant'Agata in Miami (USA) to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conceptio ...
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  10 December 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Lasallian missionary brother James Alfred Miller beatified, "martyr for education" Huehuetenango (Agenzia Fides) - "A martyr, an excellent educator and evangelical defender of the poor and oppressed, who became one of us and for us gave his life": this is how Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, B ...
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  9 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New repression against the Church: the Bishop of Esteli denounces "the pain of a people" Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the most heartfelt Marian feast in the Central American country, the Immaculate Conception, the Catholic Church once again denounced the harsh repression against the suffering peopl ...
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  7 December 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Farmers expelled from their lands, attacked and threatened: support from organizations and the Church Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The farmers of El Seibo arrived in the capital more than two months ago asking for a definitive intervention by the authorities to resolve their situation. "We are talking about 240 peas ...
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  7 December 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Jesuit Bartomeu Melià, great expert in language and culture of the Guaraní indigenous people, has died Asunciòn (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, December 6, Jesuit father Bartomeu Melià died in Asunción. Born in Porreras, on the island of Majorca, in 1932, he arrived in Paraguay in 1954, and since then he began studying th ...
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  7 December 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Missionaries Ad Gentes prepare to go to America, Africa and Europe Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There were about thirty participants, among religious, priests, seminarians and lay people, in the Ad gentes course that ended yesterday, addressed to the missionaries who are preparing to go ...
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  6 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Sixteen million Argentines are poor, the Church calls for a social pact to assist them Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Commission for social pastoral care, presided over by Mgr. Jorge Rubén Lugones, SJ, Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, on Wednesday, December 4 received the representatives of the "Me ...
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  6 December 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Beatification of Bishop Fulton Sheen postponed Peoria (Agenzia Fides) - "With deep regret, Bishop Daniel Jenky, C.S.C, Bishop of Peoria, announces that he has been informed by the Holy See that the beatification of Fulton Sheen will be postponed", this is the stateme ...
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  5 December 2019
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We must continue to fight corruption", said Mgr. Garachana Pérez, supporting the renewal of MACCIH San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the expiry of the "MACCIH" agreement (Misión de Apoyo Contra la Corrupción and Impunidad en Honduras), signed between the government of Honduras and the Organization of ...
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  5 December 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Complaints and hopes of young Paraguayans at the end of the Youth Triennium: "Yes to life, yes to Jesus" Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot remain ignorant to the different realities that influence the lives of many Paraguayans, for this reason, as young people we denounce: the corrupt attitude of many political leaders ...
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  4 December 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - Chaos and violence, an injured woman praying in church: testimony of a missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Chaos, fear, confusion, insecurity not only in streets but everywhere: this is the situation that the Haitian people live in these days of constant demonstrations against the authorities. ...