America

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  21 June 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Salesians distribute work kits to fishermen in difficulty after the environmental disaster in Esmeraldas Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) – On March 13, 2025, a pipeline rupture in the province of Esmeraldas, northwest Ecuador, caused a huge amount of oil to spill into the river of the same name, which gives the region its name ...
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  17 June 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The humanitarian situation remains catastrophic: people are not giving up hope for a better future Pourcine-Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - "Behind every number stands a person whose suffering is immeasurable: children, mothers, the elderly, many of whom have been forced to leave their homes more than once, often with on ...
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  16 June 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - Curacautín, arson attack: San Francisco chapel destroyed again Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – “With deep sorrow”, the Diocese of Temuco joins the Catholic community of Curacautín, where “another arson attack has devastated the San Francisco chapel, in the town of Radal ...
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  16 June 2025
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "President of Peace": Violeta Chamorro, dies in exile Managua (Agenzia Fides) - She marked the history of her country as a symbol of democracy. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was the woman who defeated Ortega in Nicaragua and the first woman elected President in the Americas o ...
• 12 June 2025
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Appointment of bishop of La Ceiba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jenrry Johel Velásquez Hernández, of the clergy of Comayagua, until now rector of the Cristo Sumo Sacerdote Major Seminary in Comayagua, as bish ...
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  6 June 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - State and Church united to respond to the educational emergency in the Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón Oventeni (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 120 students between the ages of 12 and 18 from the 48 indigenous Ashéninka communities in Gran Pajonal are hosted during the school year at the Oventeni student residence, in th ...
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  29 May 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian Crisis: Salesian missionaries provide meals to 2,300 young Haitians Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In a context where the humanitarian and social crisis seems to have no end, the Salesian missionaries are committed to ensuring adequate nutrition for adolescent boys and girls. In coll ...
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  19 May 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - In an atmosphere of celebration, joy and gratitude, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrated 125 years of presence in the country Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – On April 29, 2025, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), together with young people, lay people and the Salesian Family, celebrated the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the firs ...
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  10 May 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies: Pope Leo XIV is a Man of God and a missionary Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - Affection, gratitude, and emotion. These are the feelings that resonate in the words of Father José Hipolito Purizaca Sernaque, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru, w ...
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  8 May 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - "No matarás": the country's bishops condemn the murder of a group of workers at the hands of criminal gangs Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we reaffirm our call to build a society in which life is respected and the dignity of every person is protected, and development is accompanied by justice, honesty, and charity," said ...
• 16 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The State is collapsing, opening the door to criminal gangs" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The Haitian people are a martyred people (...) and the Church that is in communion with this people lives this suffering in its flesh", said Father Marc-Henry Siméon, spokesman for the ...
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  15 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Children and adults of the Pourcine Pic Makaya community: a people of heroes by Father Massimo Miraglio* Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – Every morning, around 250 children walk for hours along steep and dangerous paths to reach the primary and nursery school in Pourcine Pic Makaya, wh ...
• 15 April 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Pilcomayo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Miguel Fritz, O.M.I., until now apostolic administrator of Pilcomayo, Paraguay, as vicar apostolic of the same apostolic vicariate. The Rever ...
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  14 April 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nazareno Lanciotti, missionary and martyr, will be proclaimed Blessed São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – "We have come to kill you because you bother us too much." These were the last words Father Nazareno Lanciotti heard before he was shot dead in his rectory in Jauru, in the Brazilian state ...
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  4 April 2025
  AMERICA/USA - Kansas: Priest shot in rectory Seneca (Agenzia Fides) – Father Arul Carasala, parish priest of the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Seneca, a city in the north east of Kansas, was shot dead by a man on Thursday, April 3, while in his rectory. Acc ...