America

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  25 June 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The new Constitution must recognize the right to education and the freedom of education at all levels Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - After the result of the plebiscite of October 25, 2020 (see Fides, 27/10/2020), held after a long period of crisis that Chile is going through in all fields - political, economic, social and re ...
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  24 June 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops of the Pacific and the south-western region: "It is time for significant changes, in justice and reconciliation" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the population of African origin, indigenous and mestizo living in the territories of the Pacific and south-western Colombia, continues to worry the Pastors of the Church present ...
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  24 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Day of prayer and mission: the Brazilian missionary Church in Mozambique Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Commission for the Missions of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB) and the Pontifical Mission Societies, are promoting the fourth edition of the "Day of Prayer and Mission" fo ...
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  23 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Today more than ever, our societies need peacemakers" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "After celebrating one of the most significant electoral processes in our history, we call on everyone, regardless of the results of the votes, to build a future, based on the ability to wor ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US bishops urged to find ways to welcome, serve immigrants Texas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, encouraged prelates meeting via Zoom for the U.S. bishops' virtual spring assembly to find ways to welcome what may be a growing number of immigrants to the ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The ministries of the Word and the Eucharist conferred to five members of the Kichwa indigenous communities Puyo (Agenzia Fides) - As part of his pastoral visit to the indigenous communities of Kichwa, settled in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, the Apostolic Vicar of Puyo, Monsignor Rafael Cob, conferred the ministry of the ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Oxygen concentrators from Spain to the Peruvian forest Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Archdiocese of Toledo has sent three oxygen concentrators (small machines that obtain oxygen from ambient air) to Peru, to treat patients with Covid-19. The Pastoral Care of Health an ...
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  21 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Half a million lives lost due to Covid: call for national unity in defense of life and democracy Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "If, on the one hand, the death of so many requires respectful silence and the prayers of those who have faith, on the other hand we ask, once again, for national unity in defense of life and d ...
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  21 June 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishop of La Ceiba on the Zedes: "let's defend the common good, let's defend territorial sovereignty and our values" La Ceiba (Agenzia Fides) - The project for the establishment of the "Work and Development Areas", Zede in Spanish (Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico), which affects several regions of Honduras, but above all the de ...
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  19 June 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - May the experience of the pandemic give birth to a new way of caring for immigrants and refugees Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "More than a year has passed since the beginning of the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected all of humanity. More than a year has passed since the people most af ...
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  19 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The murder of Friar Juan Antonio Orozco must not go unpunished, "may his death be a seed of hope" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The systematic violence experienced in the Mexican national territory deriving from the activity of organized crime cannot be made invisible; as well as the little or no commitment and prep ...
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  18 June 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Day of the Missionary Ad gentes: "the light of the Gospel that we bring will be able to illuminate the dark night of the peoples" Puyo (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we want to congratulate and honor those Ecuadorian missionaries who, leaving their land and driven by the Spirit, left their home like Mary for her visit to her cousin Elizabeth, and brought ...
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  18 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado: "contributing to the development of the Amazonian culture according to the values of the Gospel" Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - In a long interview with the magazine "Selvas Amazonicas", of the Dominican Missionaries, sent to Agenzia Fides, Mgr. David Martinez de Aguirre, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pue ...
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  17 June 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Car bomb attack in Cucuta: "nothing justifies these senseless and blind acts", the Church calls for reconciliation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the teaching of the Church, the Bishops proclaim that nothing justifies these foolish and blind acts, which deeply wound human dignity and constitute a very serious offense against all ...
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  17 June 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The law is sovereign and not the will of men": the Bishops after the latest arrests of opponents Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, highlighted yesterday, Wednesday, June 16, that "there are no conditions" for "free and fair elections" in Nicaragua, and called for the "immediate rel ...