America

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  13 September 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Apostolic Vicar of Chaco calls for greater government commitment against violence and for the release of the kidnapped Alto Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) - The Vicar Apostolic of Chaco, Bishop Gabriel Escobar, has called on the Paraguayan government to do more to ensure the safe return of those kidnapped by the armed group in the north of the ...
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  11 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombia prepares for Mission Day 2021 and the centenary of the First National Missionary Congress Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We announce Christ, who gives us life and hope" is the slogan chosen by Colombia for the next World Mission Day (Domund 2021), which Mgr. Mario Álvarez Gómez, Bishop of Itsmina-Tadó and Presi ...
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  10 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops "in favor of women and the right to life" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The nation's Supreme Court of Justice has ruled on the unconstitutionality of some articles of the Criminal Code of the State of Coahuila, concerning the criminalization of women who resort ...
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  10 September 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Our Lady of Coromoto shows us that salvation is not only for some, but for all, without distinction of race or origin Guanare (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in the last 20 years, on the feast day of the Virgin of Coromoto, September 8, national and international media coverage of this celebration was carried out, with journalists ...
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  9 September 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Missionary Community, share the Word": a new missionary impulse arises from the Word of God La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Bolivia celebrates the Month of the Bible in September, placing particular emphasis on the relationship between the Word of God and the Mission, inviting us to meditate on the book ...
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  9 September 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Against polarization and division: empower individuals, families, and communities to be bridgebuilders across perspectives Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a new initiative today aimed at addressing polarization in society. Based on Pope Francis’ call in his encyclical, Frat ...
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  8 September 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Criminal gangs kill a priest in Cap Haitien Cap Haitien (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 6, in Cap Haitien, in the north of the country, Father André Sylvestre, a 70-year-old priest, was attacked while leaving a bank. Wounded by a group of criminals, he die ...
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  7 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The imprisonment of Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez: testimony of the evangelizing mission Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - "Like Jesus, Sister Gloria was dedicating her life to fighting disease, injustice and marginalization. Her missionary testimony, in contexts such as Mali, caused her misunderstandings up to he ...
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  7 September 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - For Cardinal Rosa Chávez: "Democracy is in intensive care" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Democracy in El Salvador is in intensive care": this is the expression used by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Auxiliary of San Salvador, to make a comparison with a deadly disease that le ...
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  6 September 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Independence Day "should make us recognize that we are all brothers, including those with whom we disagree" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, urged Christians "not to be indifferent" to social exclusion and stressed the importance of pub ...
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  6 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Human dignity and fundamental rights are not a matter of votes, but of recognition and respect Nuevo Casas Grandes (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us remember that human dignity and fundamental rights are not a matter of votes, but of recognition and respect", strongly reaffirms Monsignor Jesús José Herrera Quiñones, Bi ...
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  4 September 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Virtual mode or in presence, young people celebrate their 42nd National Day Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Around the slogan "He approached and walked with them", this weekend in most of the dioceses of Uruguay the 42nd National Youth Day (JNJ) is celebrated, in some dioceses in virtual mode and i ...
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  4 September 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three weeks after the earthquake, help is still urgent; wave of solidarity among Haitian Catholics Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Three weeks after the terrible earthquake that struck Haiti on August 14, which caused more than 2,000 deaths and hundreds of injured, the population continues to suffer from a lack of as ...
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  3 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A week of meeting and dialogue on the building of peace in the country Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, September 5 the celebration of the annual "Week for Peace" begins in Colombia, which this year has the motto "Truth that we can". The Director of the National Secretariat for Social Pa ...
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  3 September 2021
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Archbishop of Panama: "We have a corrupt society and no one takes the first step to transform it" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Panama, Mgr. José Domingo Ulloa, made an energetic appeal to Panamanians to tackle and resolve the "great problem" of corruption that afflicts the country and society, and ...