America

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  5 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Testimony of a long-term Spanish missionary and the presence of Jesus Christ, the Good Samaritan Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In Spain, the Hispanic-American Day will be celebrated next Sunday and for the occasion, Agenzia Fides has received from the Archdiocese of Toledo the testimony of Father Félix Zaragoza, the o ...
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  4 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "Selvas Amazónicas": Dominican Order launches new magazine Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - With the magazine “Selvas Amazónicas”, the Dominican Order is launching a new magazine that aims to report and analyze the reality of the communities in the Amazon forest in which Dominican ...
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  4 March 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops on the upcoming elections: "For a democratic and just Bolivia" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "But you, brothers, do not be remiss in doing good" (2 Thess 3:13). With this exhortation taken from the second letter of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, the Bishops' Conference of Bolivia ...
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  3 March 2021
  AMERICA - Appeal to the governments of Chile and Bolivia for the dramatic situation of migrants Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The ecclesial institutions committed to migrants who work on the border between Bolivia and Chile appeal to the governments of the two nations so that the response to forced migration comes fro ...
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  3 March 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Tense situation: desecration of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, increase in the number of thefts, economic stagnation, protests for vaccines to VIPs Lomas de Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentine diocese of Lomas de Zamora informs that during the early hours of March 2, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace was the subject of acts of vandalism. The tabernacle which hou ...
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  2 March 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The meeting between Simon Bolivar and the Bishop of Maracaibo two centuries ago challenges our situation today Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "A historic and significant event for our beloved homeland": this is how the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela descrive the meeting between " Libertador" Simón Bolívar and Mgr. Rafael Lasso de ...
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  2 March 2021
  AMERICA - Red Clamor campaign until September on human trafficking Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Red Clamor Network (Migration and Human Trafficking) presented the program of activities of the "Life is not a commodity, but concerns people" campaign which will last until September 2021. Accor ...
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  1 March 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops want reliable and independent judges Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Regarding the "obvious and persistent difficulties" in choosing the members of the courts, the bishops made a statement entitled "The Lord loves justice" (Ps 37:28). First of all, the Pr ...
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  1 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops: "Euthanasia is always the wrong way" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Bishops' Conference gives its opinion on the first case of euthanasia in the history of Peru: the country's judiciary has ordered the Ministry of Health and Social Security (EsSalud) " ...
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  27 February 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - About 4 million people affected by food insecurity: the country is on the brink of abyss Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In the latest report by the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation in Haiti, the latter points out the worsening of the economic situation, below-average agricultural productio ...
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  26 February 2021
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Bishops address the issue of fraternity on Independence Day Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "What does fraternity mean in the Dominican Republic today?" The Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic is addressing this question in its message for Independence Day on February 2 ...
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  25 February 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Church calls for dialogue between government and doctors on strike and arrival of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 500,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm were delivered to Bolivia on February 24th to vaccinate medical staff and the population at risk in Bolivia. As confirmed by the Bolivian ...
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  25 February 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 30 years of missions in Venezuela and abroad for Venezuelan missionaries Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Indigenous and Afro-Venezuelan Missions, in collaboration with the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela, is relaunching the program known as "Relevo Misionero" (Missionary ...
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  24 February 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Right to water and food: the parties sign a public commitment San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Efforts to approve an amendment to the constitution to recognize the right to water and food as human rights in El Salvador are making progress. After access to water and sanitation was re ...
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  24 February 2021
  AMERICA - Continental Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "We cannot but announce what we have seen and heard" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot but announce what we have seen and heard": this is the theme of the Continental Assembly of National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies in America, which is being held in virtua ...