America

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  19 December 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Illegality, corruption and abuse: gender-based violence is on the rise Port-au- Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The current security crisis in the country is leading to a dramatic increase in violence against women on the Caribbean island. According to a recent United Nations report, several l ...
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  18 December 2024
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops reject the reintroduction of mining San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the government's announcement of the reintroduction of mining in our country and therefore reiterate our position that we firmly reject the repeal of the law ba ...
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  17 December 2024
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Research, reception, socialization and accompaniment: a beacon of hope and development for thousands of minors Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - “If everyone works together, it is possible to change the lives of the youngest for the better and create a better future for future generations, following the dream of Don Bosco”, is ...
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  11 December 2024
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Parish worker shot dead on his way to Mass Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of December 8, in the Penha district, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, 43-year-old architect Steve Maguerith Chaves do Nascimento was shot in the head while he was parking h ...
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  11 December 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - By the end of the year, religious sisters must also leave the Country Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "You have until December to leave the country," was the warning to all religious sisters in Nicaragua, who will be forced to seek refuge in countries, mainly in Latin America, where their respec ...
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  9 December 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - 184 people killed last weekend: the Bishops call for an end to the violence that destroys society Port-au-Prince (Fides) - At least 184 people were killed in Port-au-Prince last weekend alone, according to Volker Türk, UN Human Rights Commissioner for Haiti. "Last weekend alone, at least 184 people were killed in th ...
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  6 December 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A month after the funeral, prayers continue for Fabián Enrique Arcos Sevilla, priest found dead with signs of torture Ambato (Agenzia Fides) - In the Diocese of Ambato people continue to pray for Fabián Enrique Arcos Sevilla, a priest who disappeared on 30 October and was found dead with signs of torture four days later, in the provinc ...
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  2 December 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Pope writes to the people of God in Nicaragua: "Faith and hope work miracles" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Be assured that faith and hope work miracles," writes Pope Francis in a letter to the people of God in Nicaragua, on the occasion of the novena for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception o ...
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  25 November 2024
  AMERICA - 40 years after the Beagle conflict: when the Holy See managed to avoid war between Chile and Argentina Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The confrontation seemed inevitable. Chile and Argentina were on the brink of war over sovereignty of the Beagle Channel, a strategic passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At a ...
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  21 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Pope's message to the participants of CAM6: The source of the mission is the joy of the disciples after the encounter with the risen Christ Ponce (Agenzia Fides) – “We cannot give what we do not possess, we cannot express what we have not experienced, what our eyes have not seen, or what our hands have not touched”. Therefore, “the foundation of the ...
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  21 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - CAM6, the Pope: one becomes a proclaimer of the Gospel only with the Holy Spirit Puerto Rico (Agenzia Fides) - "As on the day of Pentecost" the Apostles were "filled with the Holy Spirit" and sent by the Lord "to the ends of the earth", so today "we too, having received the same Spirit, have become ...
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  20 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Archbishop Nappa at CAM6: Let us all return to the "first Announcement", the ever-living source of all the Church's work Ponce (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of the sixth edition of the American Missionary Congress (see Fides, 19/11/2024) is underway, which began yesterday with a festive and participatory Eucharistic celebration in the " ...
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  19 November 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - VI American Missionary Congress: more than 12,000 participants expected Ponce (Agenzia Fides) - More than 12,000 people are expected today in the city of Ponce for the official opening ceremony of the VI American Missionary Congress (CAM6). The opening of CAM6 will take place at 8:00 a.m. l ...
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  19 November 2024
  AMERICA/GUADELOUPE - The periphery at the heart of the Salesians Les Abymes (Agenzia Fides) - "Perhaps many in the Salesian religious family do not know where the island of Guadeloupe is. It is as if it were on the geographical 'periphery'. But the periphery is the heart of the work o ...
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  17 November 2024
  AMERICA/USA - Archbishop Nappa to the representatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the USA: May gratitude be the source of your contribution to the mission of the Universal Church San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "We must begin by recognizing the extraordinary generosity of the universal Church towards the Church in the United States. Until 1908 the United States was considered a mission territory and t ...