America

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  18 October 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Monsignor Centellas: "it is important to work on laws that give priority to work, seeking the well-being of those most in need" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of the Presidency of the Bolivian government, María Nela Prada, has announced that the government has decided to withdraw the bill against the legitimization of illicit profits, to a ...
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  18 October 2021
  AMERICA - Church conference on Amazon receives legal personality: CELAM expresses “joy and hope” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "With joy and hope we received great news: Pope Francis has recognized the Church Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) as a public ecclesiastical legal personality", said the Board of the Council of ...
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  16 October 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Government continues militarization and repression of migrants, resulting in human rights violations Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "We make a respectful but energetic appeal to the government of Mexico to abandon the repression against migrants and respect its constitutional mandate to make the human rights of all ef ...
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  16 October 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Managua's "Justice and Peace" denounces the "manipulation, politicization and management" of the pandemic Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We share with all the people the pain and sorrow caused by the high rate of infections and deaths caused by the pandemic", while "we thank all the countries and international organizations that ...
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  15 October 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Let us renew our missionary and evangelizing ardor": the martyrs of Zenta will be beatified San Salvador de Jujuy (Agenzia Fides) - "With the same love with which Don Pedro launched himself into evangelization, making us discover the richness of God's love for every man, so we renew our missionary and evangeliz ...
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  15 October 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops urgent appeal to vote: "We need to look to the future with hope" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - We ask the people "to overcome the feelings of indifference, apathy and skepticism that have caused been by our poor government system and its institutions, which result in abstention", read ...
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  13 October 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "let us raise our voices and defend the truth about the dignity of the human being, the sanctity of life and marriage" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - After the intentions expressed by some local legislators to propose a reform of the Civil Code of the State of Mexico to redefine the natural marriage between a man and a woman, the Mexican ...
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  12 October 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Bishops invite "to actively participate in the beatification of our martyrs" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of El Salvador (CEDES) has invited everyone to prepare spiritually for the beatification of its four martyrs, which, as announced will take place on January 22, 202 ...
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  11 October 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The release of Sister Gloria, a moment of joy long awaited by the Church in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor Mario de Jesús Álvarez Gómez, Bishop of Istmina-Tadó, president of the Commission for Missions of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, confirmed on October 9, through a video messa ...
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  11 October 2021
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - "Walking together, not only on the level of faith, but also on a human level": National pastoral meeting Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Responding to the fundamental needs of the Church and society: this was the objective of the XXXIX National Pastoral Meeting, which the Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED), through its Na ...
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  8 October 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Municipal elections: violence and corruption must challenge us "not only as voters but as society in general" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Municipal elections will take place in Paraguay on Sunday, October 10, with which citizens are called to renew the 261 municipal governments of the Country. According to data from the Tribunal ...
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  7 October 2021
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - The economic crisis threatens the collapse of electricity, for the Bishops it is about respect for the dignity of every human being San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "Aware that everything concerning human dignity, its care, its support and its development, requires to be enlightened by the truth of faith", the Bishops of Puerto Rico denounce, as Pastors of ...
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  6 October 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Put an end to violence”: prayer and reflection on the value of human life in all its expressions Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "As Pastors of the Church in Ecuador, we wish to appeal to men and women of good will to give value to human life, to become aware that the human being is not an object to be used and thrown away. ...
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  6 October 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - A two-year Great National Mission begins on Mission Day: "Missionary disciples: bearers of hope" San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Costa Rica, convinced that "It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4.20), "convene all the pilgrim people of God in our dioceses, for a Gr ...
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  5 October 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Giving a Bible is evangelizing Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “The Word is a gift and, at the same time, a commitment entrusted to the pastors and faithful of a community. The book of the Bible is the guide, and expresses the centrality of the messa ...