America

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  17 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Call of the Bishops for the elections on the need to come out of the ongoing multi-dimensional crisis together Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In a document entitled "The politics we need", the Bishops of Peru have expressed their views on the next elections to be held next April. In the message signed on March 15, they point out that Per ...
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  16 March 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Call of the Bishops to the government to abandon revenge and political persecution La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Mgr. Sergio Gualberti, deplored the latest actions of the government within the context of the alleged "coup d'etat" and asked to "act according to the truth". "Ther ...
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  15 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Call to combat human trafficking: new forms of recruitment devised during the pandemic Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the dramatic reality of human trafficking, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking of the Bishops' Conf ...
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  15 March 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Salvadorans remember Father Rutilio Grande on the anniversary of his assassination, in the hope of an early beatification El Paisnal (Agenzia Fides) - Many parishes and communities in the country remembered yesterday, Sunday, March 14th, the 44th anniversary of the death of Father Rutilio Grande in the hope of his speedy beatification. On F ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Rite of reparation in the Cathedral of Ibagué after the desecration of March 8 Ibagué (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 12, at 11.30 am local time, a rite of reparation celebrated by the Archbishop, His Exc. Bishop Orlando Roa Barbosa, after the desecration that took place in recent days. On the occa ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - A blog run by young people to support the mission in the Peruvian forest during the pandemic Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - "Anthropology of the mission", "Recent history of the mission in the forest", "Curiosities about the missions", "Teaching to fish", are the latest titles to appear on the new Blog that an ever-g ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appeal of the Pact for Life and for Brazil in the face of the worsening pandemic situation in the country Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no time to waste, negtionism kills. The virus is circulating from north to south of Brazil, replicating strains, affecting different age groups, punishing the most vulnerable. Patient ...
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  11 March 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The mission of the politician: a vocation at the service of national reconciliation and the construction of the common good Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Political vocation cannot be reduced to belonging to a party or to supporting an ideological postulate from a platform. Politics, on the other hand, implies a "vocation to service". This ser ...
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  11 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The situation remains very difficult, the Church constantly invokes peace and dialogue to solve problems Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church cannot take a position in favor or against the accusation of impeachment of the President of the Republic. The position of the Church is to constantly invoke peace": these are the w ...
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  10 March 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Religious write a letter to President Moïse. "You have a duty to respond to the requests of the population" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "As men and women religious trying to provide assistance in all areas of the life of the Haitian people and in the most remote and difficult places in the country ... we witness the miser ...
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  9 March 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Combat killings linked to the victim's gender through integral education based on the dignity of women, protection of life and gender equality Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Each new case of murder linked to the sex of the victim shakes Argentinian society. In fact, 82% of these murders take place in the context of domestic violence and 60% occur in the victim' ...
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  9 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Demonstrations against corruption among politicians and mismanagement of the pandemic Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - For four days, demonstrations, even violent, have followed in the capital of Paraguay, Asunción, aimed at protesting against the corruption of local politicians and against the management of t ...
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  8 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Women on mission": women at the forefront of the Church's mission Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "This is its mission: to be an instrument of love in a polarized world permeated by hatred! Women are at the forefront of the mission". This is what the Counselor of the Episcopal Pastoral Comm ...
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  8 March 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Call for dialogue by the Church after the violent demonstrations in Formosa against the return to lockdown in the fight against Covid-19 Formosa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension and violence continue in Formosa, both in the city and in this Argentine province on the border with Paraguay after provincial authorities ordered a total lockdown as part of the fight a ...
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  5 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Threats against the Bishop of Buenaventura in a context of increasing violence and reaction of the Episcopate Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "We express solidarity, closeness, affection and support to our brother Bishop of this diocese, Mgr. Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya, following threats to his integrity and his life, to whi ...