America

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  8 April 2021
  AMERICA - Jesuit Refugee Service: Latin America and the Caribbean the areas most affected by the pandemic in the world Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America and the Caribbean is the region most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, with 28% of deaths, despite the fact that its population represents 8.4% of the world population. This dramat ...
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  7 April 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Two online courses on missionary formation: "Formation for the mission" and "Biblical sources for the Mission" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Registrations have been opened for two online courses organized by the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM) of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) dedicated to formation for the Mis ...
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  7 April 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru’s Bishops call for respect of rules in upcoming elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "In the past five years, Peruvian democracy has been seriously undermined by the succession of four Presidents and two Congresses, that has not allowed the country to pursue integral development, c ...
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  31 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CELAM: Closeness, solidarity and prayer to the Bishops of Colombia after acts of violence Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) expresses "closeness, solidarity and prayer" to the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC), after the acts of violence and vandalism that took place ...
• 31 March 2021
  AMERICA/CANADA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 9, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Yoland Ouellet, OMI as National Director of the Pontifical Mi ...
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  31 March 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Archbishop of Sucre: "We will have very difficult moments but we must move forward because we do not live to die, but to live" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - "As at every beginning of Holy Week, the celebration of Palm Sunday invites us to experience the 'Major Week' as it is traditionally called by Christians. Thus, the story of the Lord's Passion rem ...
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  31 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - University pastoral care: "Resurrection in the pandemic for a new life" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The University Pastoral Care (UC) of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, has launched the book for Holy Week 2021 in times of pandemic, "Resurrection in the pandemic for a new life", which conta ...
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  30 March 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Corruption is an endemic evil" underlines Cardinal Rosa Chávez on the case of the "ghost seats" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Salvadoran population continues to be astonished by the results of the investigation of the Legislative Assembly on "ghost seats", as the local press calls them. Almost a month after th ...
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  30 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Cry for peace" of the Bishops of Chocó and Antioquia to criminal groups: ceasefire for one hundred days Quibdó (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Holy Week celebrations, the bishops of the dioceses of Quibdó, Istmina-Tadó and Apartadó, launch an appeal to criminal groups for a 100-day ceasefire. "Faced with the ...
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  30 March 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The parish priest of Cristo Rey in Dolores Hidalgo found dead with signs of violence Celaya (Agenzia Fides) - Father Gumersindo Cortés González, director of the Retreat House in Atotonilco for many years and then parish priest of Asunción, in the Zapote district of Celaya (Mexico), has been found dead ...
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  29 March 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Living Holy Week as a domestic Church in times of pandemic Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Venezuela, through the Department of Liturgy, have prepared a subsidy for the celebration of Holy Week with the family, facilitating the experience of living these holy days as a ...
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  29 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Historical memory for reconciliation and peace: project in the diocese of Valledupar Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Strengthening all processes of remembrance and historical memory is to give roots to communities, and when a community has roots, it can withstand many winds and difficulties", underlined the B ...
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  29 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Broaden your gaze" urges Archbishop Chomali for the April elections, with the possibility of postponement due to Covid Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - With a virtual meeting through Zoom, broadcast on social media and broadcast by Radio Chilena Concepción, the document "Reflecting before voting on April 10 and 11" was presented, written b ...
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  27 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops: "Together towards the Risen Christ, light in the night of the pandemic" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "From the current situation, marked by suffering, anguish and death, as a consequence of the pandemic, let us reflect together on two fundamental points of these holy days: the cross and the resurr ...
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  27 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A missionary: "The Church accompanies the peoples of the Amazon on their path of joy and authenticity" Santarém (Agenzia Fides) - "The wounds inflicted on the environment in the Amazon are not only a serious ecological, social and political problem, but they directly involve the Church because the defense of human life i ...