America

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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 ...
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  24 February 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants: the many aspects of the mobility circuit in Central America Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - The northern border of Mexico represents one of the main migratory corridors in the world, characterized by violations of fundamental rights and by a high risk for the lives of migrants, discrim ...
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  23 February 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Looking to history while thanking God, looking to the future confident in his power": one hundred years of the Ecclesiastical Province San José (Agenzia Fides) - "It is clear that the Catholic faith of our people has been a fundamental factor in building the identity that defines us in the world, as a nation that fights for peace, democracy, social jus ...
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  23 February 2021
  AMERICA - Beginning of the journey in view of the Ecclesial Assembly next November Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American churches are starting to prepare for the first ecclesiastical assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean, which is to take place from November 21 to 28 in the Guadalupe Basil ...
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  22 February 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "Catechesis and Mission": advanced training seminar aims to initiate dialogue Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 650 people attended a one-week training seminar on “Catechesis and Mission” organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies in America with the support of the Society of Latin Ame ...
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  22 February 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops to the government: elections, an opportunity to resolve the country's crisis Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Less than nine months before the general elections in Nicaragua, the Bishops who are members of the Bishops' Conference (CEN) united in the call of the population asking the government of Presid ...
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  20 February 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops to the authorities: the most vulnerable people must receive the vaccine first Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask public authorities to facilitate the procedures for the purchase and administration of vaccines, respecting the established criteria, so that the most vulnerable people receive it first, a ...
• 19 February 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The pandemic has highlighted fragility, weaknesses and the need to support each other in faith and fraternity Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Lent is the right place that invites us to share, to the charity that comes from the heart and not from appearances. This time of pandemic has highlighted fragility, weakness and the need to su ...
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  19 February 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - REPAM: alarming increase in the number of infections and deaths due to Covid-19 in the pan-Amazon region Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - "Message of solidarity to the Amazonian peoples": it is under this title the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) has launched an appeal for help in the face of the catastrophic situation that ...
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  18 February 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Medicine to save lives: guaranteeing everyone the right to health and access to medicines Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - For more than forty years, through the Sharing Campaign called Compartir, the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela and Caritas of Venezuela have invited the country to help the poorest and most vuln ...
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  18 February 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Outrage over the irregular vaccinations of senior officials while many on the front lines continue to die Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The chairman of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference (CEP) condemned the recent irregularities in vaccination. "The outrage caused by these incidents is increasing because it ignores those who have mad ...
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  17 February 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - A Lent of conversion, purification and hope Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In its Lenten message, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile underlines the imposition of the ashes with which this liturgical season begins, inviting people to participat ...