America

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  19 November 2019
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "One does not improvise to become martyr": the testimony of Fr. Moscoso, the first martyr of Ecuador Riobamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The virtuous life and the heroic death of Blessed Emilio Moscoso encourage each of us to bring the light of the Gospel to our contemporaries with enthusiasm, as he did. His testimony is curren ...
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  18 November 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Come, Lord Jesus": Bishops’ message of hope, December 8 day of prayer for Chile Lo Canas (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Chile (see Fides, 13/11/2019), the Bishops published a message addressed "to the faithful and to the communities of the ...
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  15 November 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Strengthening of police and army controls on the activities of the Catholic Church Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - "The world sees and knows that there is no freedom of worship in Nicaragua!" says Father Edwin Roman, parish priest of San Miguel parish of Masaya, who cannot enter the church because is blocked ...
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  15 November 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sunday 17th day of prayer for Colombia: everyone is needed to look to the future with hope Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the national strike called for on November 21, the Colombian Bishops recall in a statement that "mobilizations are a democratic right when they are the expression of freedom and respo ...
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  14 November 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - San Francisco de Valdivia Temple desecrated Valdivia (Agenzia Fides) - Sorrow for the profanation and damage caused to the church of San Francisco, heritage of southern Chile and Valdivia, were expressed by Mgr. Nelson R. Huaiquimil, Vicar General of the Chilean d ...
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  13 November 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - National dialogue and the end of violence, because "Chile cannot wait!" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Chile calls for national dialogue without exclusions and to end all forms of violence. In a message published on 12 November, as part of the 119th Plenary Assembly ...
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  13 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "We look to the future with hope and, through peace, we continue to build Bolivia" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us build a Bolivia with respect, tolerance, freedom, justice and authentic progress for all", is the appeal launched by the Bishops of Bolivia, through a statement of the General Secretariat ...
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  12 November 2019
  AMERICA - The President of CELAM: "Throughout our region there is a sort of unprecedented ‘social explosion’ Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - "I wish to express my strongest rejection of violence, wherever it comes from, and appeal to the rulers and the authorities of our region to implement concrete and real policies that guarantee ...
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  11 November 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - Looted and desecrated places of worship, the Bishops ask to apply the law and rebuild the social fabric Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity with the Apostolic Administrator Mgr. Celestino Aós and all the faithful of the Archdiocese of Santiago after the looting and desecration of the parish of the Assumption of Mary, wa ...
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  11 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - After the resignation of the President, appeal for non-violence and a peaceful constitutional solution La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of people took to the streets a few hours ago in La Paz to celebrate the resignation of Bolivian president Evo Morales, at the end of the protests and disputes over the results of the O ...
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  9 November 2019
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - The Bishops: "We need political leaders who work coherently and for the people" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "The disadvantage of the country, from violence in the streets to government crisis, show the situation in which we live ... despite the situation we have the opportunity to build the country w ...
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  9 November 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops' message: "to make a more missionary and merciful Church a reality" Luque (Agenzia Fides) - "We Pastors, together with consecrated persons, priests, seminarians and consecrated lay people, want to make a more missionary and merciful Church become a reality": say the Bishops of Paraguay i ...
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  8 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Set aside sectoral interests: Bishops and UN representative call for an end to violence Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Mgr. Sergio Gualberti, and the Archbishop of Cochabamba, Oscar Omar Aparicio, together with their Auxiliaries, have invited to establish a sincere dialogue betwe ...
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  7 November 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Archbishop of Asunción: increasing the salaries of politicians instead of supporting the poorest is "immoral" Luque (Agenzia Fides) - The request to increase the salaries of politicians instead of allocating money to create and strengthen health, education and housing programs for the most vulnerable sectors of the population is ...
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  7 November 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops: "Need to overcome the various forms of violence and build social friendship" Pilar (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask God to help us so that the democratic path is translated into a dignified life, integral development, work for all, access to health and quality education": this is what the Bishops of Arg ...