America

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  3 August 2021
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - March against the imposition of gender ideology San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The Puerto Rican Bishops' Conference has called for a march on August 14th against the introduction of gender ideology in the country's public school program. In an official statement, the Pre ...
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  3 August 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Covid-19: Mayor of Managua holds celebrations for the feast of St. Domingo de Guzman without the approval of the Catholic Church Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, on the feast of our patron saint, we should take the opportunity to ask ourselves what moves us to seek the Lord", said the Archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, at the mass o ...
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  2 August 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops express solidarity on the occasion of the World Holocaust Day of the Roma people Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The Colombian Church, through the Episcopal Conference, wishes to express its deepest sense of solidarity with the Roma peoples around the world and in particular with the Roma who have lived in ...
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  31 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops join the cry of "so many brothers and sisters who ask for peace, respect for life and human rights" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Bishops of Colombia support this cry for peace, life and respect for the human dignity of so many of our brothers and sisters", declared the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, expre ...
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  31 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Missionaries prepared to face today's challenges: the PMS Missionary Formation Center inaugurated Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Promote and foster paths of permanent formation, missionary updating and accompaniment of pastoral workers and all the people of God: this is the objective of the new Missionary Formation Center ...
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  30 July 2021
  AMERICA - Continental campaign of the Catholic Church against human trafficking: "Life is not a commodity on sale" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Today, July 30, the World Day against Human Trafficking is celebrated. Red Clamor, an organization that brings together men and women committed to accompanying, defending, promoting and includi ...
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  29 July 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops: "The 'Zede' are in open violation of the Constitution and to the detriment of our territorial order" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Episcopal Conference expresses its solidarity and joins the pronouncements of the brother Bishops in their Dioceses, who have embraced the protests of civil society, demanding the non-c ...
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  28 July 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A day of silence and prayer for peace and reconciliation for Nicaraguans on July 31 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, urged the faithful to live a "Day of silence and prayer" on Saturday July 31, the date that commemorates the first anniversary of the act o ...
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  28 July 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops for the Bicentenary: defend democratic institutions, build peace and integral human development, reject all forms of violence Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peru will celebrate the bicentenary of its independence on July 28 and 29. A massive deployment of police across the country, especially in places that will host official events, will help ensure p ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: "the sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, illegal and arbitrary, has caused irreparable damage to the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, according to authoritative men and women of law, was illegal and arbitrary. We embrace the protest of citizens in warning that this fact indi ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 36 years after the murder of Father Ramin: by following his example, we renew our commitment to the poor and creation Ji-Paraná (Agenzia Fides) - Father Ezechiele Ramin, a Comboni missionary (MCCJ), from Padua (Italy), arrived in Brazil in 1983, in the diocese of Ji Paraná, which includes the central part of the State of Rondônia and ...
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  26 July 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops of Veracruz: "Lawmakers have an ethical obligation to be well informed and to listen to the cry of those who elected them" Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Bishops of the eight dioceses of Veracruz contemplate with dismay the path that some legislators have just taken in favor of the culture of death", they write in their message, si ...
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  23 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Migrants from Latin America: regional meeting on realities, challenges. Perspectives Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The current context of the Covid-19 pandemic affecting humanity has caused an increase in the number of migrant population, which adds to the difficult economic, social and political realities th ...
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  23 July 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "The Good Shepherd never abandons his sheep": a video on the testimony of Sister Aguchita, a missionary Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "I belong to the Congregation of the Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd never abandons his sheep": with these words the missionary Sister María Agustina Rivas, better known as "Aguchita", embarke ...
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  22 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in Antioquia: religious communities ask to respect the right to peace Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - Warn about the effects of the worsening of the armed conflict, while a territorial dispute has arisen between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colomb ...