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  8 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Redemptorists report the kidnapping of three Catholic women religious Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Pray for peace and for an end to violence in the country where criminal groups spread fear and terror among the population" is the request of Father Renold Antoine, missionary of the Red ...
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  7 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Missionaries at the service of the needy: “We must remain on the side of the people” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The country is in ruins, the entire region is isolated since gangs control access to the capital, so that people and goods can only enter the country through complicated air bridges or at ...
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  6 March 2024
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Camillians proclaim “Laudato Si'” year: conversion, environmental awareness and change in personal and community lifestyle Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – "It is extremely important to pay special attention to the environment in which people find themselves. It is impossible to talk about holistic health and healthy living without taking into ...
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  5 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal on behalf of the people of Haiti: "The international community must intervene immediately to stop this horrible situation of violence" by Antonella Prenna Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The intervention of the international community is urgent, otherwise a point of no return will be reached and the dead will be counted in the thousands - Father Ma ...
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  5 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Terrifying situation"; a Catholic hospital was also attacked Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is terrifying" Marcella Catozza, a Franciscan, who for years has been dedicated to pastoral and charitable activities in Haiti, tells Fides (see Fides, 26/2/2024). "The gan ...
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  26 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Sister Marcella: “The gang affiliated with the G9 intends to take over our orphanage to defend itself from attacks from the sea by a rival gang” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "They want to take over our orphanage to defend themselves from assaults from the sea by a rival gang", says to Fides Marcella Catozza, a Franciscan nun, who manages kay Pè Giuss, in the ...
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  17 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The main criminal gangs in Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Among the approximately 300 criminal gangs active in Haiti (see Fides, 10/2/2024), there are several alliances of different gangs. The most important is the so-called G9 Alliance (“G9 ...
• 12 February 2024
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Erection of the diocese of Canindeyú, Paraguay, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, the Holy Father erected the diocese of Canindeyú, Paraguay, with territory taken from the diocese of Ciudad del Este, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan Church of As ...
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  10 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - XXXII World Day of the Sick: "The health system is on the verge of collapse, but there is not only violence on the island" by Antonella Prenna Jérémie (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hospital in Port-au-Prince remains a small beacon of hope in the face of the darkness that envelops the city today," says Father Massimo Miraglio, the only Italian ...
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  10 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The emergence of criminal gangs in Haiti Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Around 300 gangs control 80% of the capital of Haiti, as the UN special envoy for the Caribbean country, Maria Isabel Salvador, reported to the UN Security Council (see Fides, 22/1/2024). ...
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  6 February 2024
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on forest fires: “It is a disaster” Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The number of people who died in the devastating fire in the coastal area of Valparaíso last Friday, February 2, continues to rise: "The situation is really tragic, it is a catastrophe", said ...
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  26 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnapped religious women released Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The six sisters of the Congregation of Saint Anne who were kidnapped on January 19 are free (see Fides 22/1/2024). Together with them, the other two captives, the driver of the minibus in ...
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  25 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “The majority of perpetrators are young people who are sent to the front to be killed” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the perpetrators are teenagers, young people without life experience and training, like a piece of meat to be slaughtered, sent to the front to be killed," said Antonio Crameri, b ...
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  22 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Which of the 300 Haitian gangs kidnapped the 6 nuns? Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no news about the total of eight people (including six religious sisters) who were kidnapped in Haiti on January 19. The sisters, who belong to the Congrégation des Sœurs ...
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  20 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - From "island of peace" to one of the most violent countries in the world Quito (Agenzia Fides) - From "island of peace" to the eleventh most violent country in the world, on a par with Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, accor ...