America

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  18 November 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops for the elections: "We must not remain in quarrel and conflict" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Regional and local elections will be held in Venezuela on Sunday, November 21. The Governors of the country and the mayors of the 335 parishes as well as the regional and local councils are elec ...
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  17 November 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Opening of the Jubilee Missionary Year: "The Church in a permanent state of mission" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - With the theme "The Church in a permanent state of mission" and the motto "You will be my witnesses" (Acts 1,8), the Brazilian Church will officially open the Missionary Jubilee Year next Satur ...
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  17 November 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The bishops: "it is time to fulfill the promises to govern by listening to all sectors of the people" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's build together a dream of a Country, a common home where everyone is recognized as citizens with their rights, responds with their duties and enjoys a life worthy of children of God in ...
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  16 November 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Still inhuman violence in prisons: "We all have to take responsibility" Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "It is important that the social consciousness of a people deals with the state of the country and is not satisfied with saying that the government is responsible for the order in prisons, bec ...
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  16 November 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - After the interruption due to the pandemic, thousands of pilgrims return to the Shrine of the "Our Lady of the Thirty-Three" Florida (Agenzia Fides) - After the interruption of last year because of the pandemic, about three thousand five hundred pilgrims coming from different parts of Uruguay, gave life on Sunday November 14, to the National P ...
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  15 November 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 100 years after the bombing, the extraordinary Jubilee Year inaugurated in the Basilica of Guadalupe Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Mexico, blessed and opened the Holy Door of the Basilica of Guadalupe on Sunday, November 14, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the bomb ...
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  15 November 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Bishop of Beni: "Progress and justice cannot be built with imposition and force" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not be able to build a Bolivia for everyone, without walking together. The project of a Bolivia in progress and justice, so desired and so necessary, will not be realized with imposi ...
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  13 November 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops: participation in the synodal journey and in the electoral process promotes the common good, equality and peace Lo Canas (Agenzia Fides) - "May peace be with you" (Lk 24:36) is the title of the message that the Chilean Bishops published at the end of the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference, which ended on November 12. Fir ...
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  13 November 2021
  AMERICA - Father Maurício Jardim elected Continental Coordinator of the PMS Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the American continent who met online on November 11, elected Father Maurício Jardim, National Director of the PMS in Brazil ...
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  13 November 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Millions of people in poverty, indifference would be even worse in the face of this situation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Colombia has a very complex situation of poverty, there is an enormous number of people, millions, who eat once a day. Many of them have lost their jobs, others are in conditions of extreme vuln ...
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  12 November 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops: "increasingly urge the involvement of Cubans in a nation project that involves and motivates everyone, without exclusions or marginalization" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the climate of tension and confrontation that has been increasing in recent times, the Cuban bishops express some "considerations that spring from our hearts as Cubans and pastors of t ...
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  12 November 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Chilean men and women religious: candidates in the next elections must be up to the task Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in a time of crisis, which causes great uncertainty in various areas: lack of security, violence and instability in social life. Every transformation and change of reality carrie ...
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  11 November 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Mexico can change for the better!" learning to be "an open, synodal, Samaritan and outgoing Church" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to express our closeness as Pastors to the people of Mexico, especially for the effects suffered as a result of the pandemic, natural disasters, the effects of violence and insecuri ...
• 11 November 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr Cristobal Zavala Guevara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 9, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr Cristobal Zavala Guevara, of the diocesan clergy of Santa An ...
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  11 November 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "God wants there to be no more bloodshed, dialogue is the best way": the Bishops in the face of violence Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "God wants there to be no more bloodshed; our position is to invite both parties to sit down to dialogue, no confrontational position, we must no longer mourn the dead. Every human life is ...