America

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  18 April 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops gather for 60th assembly: numerous issues on the agenda Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The solemn opening session of the 60th General Assembly of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) will be held on Wednesday,April 19 at 8.30 am at the Congress Center of the Natio ...
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  17 April 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For a dignified job: transforming precariousness and injustice, recognizing workers' rights Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Three out of ten Mexicans, according to the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo, work in the informal sector, that is, without having access to any type of social or work benefit. Job i ...
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  14 April 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The "District of Mercy": proclamation of the Gospel and promotion of human dignity in the center of the capital Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The District of Mercy" was founded in one of the most vulnerable areas of the Colombian capital, promoted and supported by the Catholic Church, in a coordinated work between the Archdiocese and ...
• 13 April 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, José Hipolito Purizaca Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 30, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. José Hipolito Purizaca Sernaque, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Truj ...
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  13 April 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "To evangelize, in a polarized society, means to be promoters of encounter, union and reconciliation" Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "We have decided that Mercy Sunday (2nd Sunday of Easter) of this year 2023 will also be a day of prayer to overcome polarization and promote reconciliation". This was announced by the Bi ...
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  12 April 2023
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Unprecedented violence that only national reconciliation can eradicate: "May the Risen Christ restore fraternity and justice" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Our nation is going through one of the most difficult moments in its history due to the number of murders that plunge our families into mourning, the violence that has penetrated all our comm ...
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  5 April 2023
  AMERICA - The Church at the service of Peace: "to work intensively on the structural causes of the conflict on the Continent" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The joys, hopes, sorrows and cries of our peoples resonated in the Congress, challenging us as Church for a committed and effective evangelical prophecy. This will help us overcome the state of ...
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  4 April 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church convenes a National Dialogue for Peace in view of a viable proposal to the authorities and the country Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In order to collect all the possible contributions for peace in justice and to make a viable proposal to our authorities and to the country, we have convened the National Dialogue for Peace ...
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  3 April 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - Recognition of ecclesial organizations for the defense of human rights during the dictatorship Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for this work, for risking your life to protect those who were persecuted for their ideas at the time, for believing in a different world, for fighting for justice". These are the wo ...
• 3 April 2023
  AMERICA/GUADELOUPE - Appointment of Bishop of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Philippe Guiougou, of the clergy of the diocese of Saint-Denis-en-France, until now vicar general and moderator of the Pastoral Unit of Saint-Deni ...
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  1 April 2023
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Laity: Samaritans of our time and our culture, for social and ecclesial transformation Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "According to their baptismal identity, the laity assume the commitment to be authentic Christians, so that in every social, political, economic, ecclesial reality ... they can embody values an ...
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  31 March 2023
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Temporary reception centers for immigrants "end up being detention centers, where human rights are violated" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "As we have said more than once, 'Guatemala has the primary obligation to fulfill and enforce the rights of male and female citizens to remain in their country in dignified conditions and ...
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  30 March 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants who died in Ciudad Juárez: "a sad reality that deeply challenges us all" Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "A sad reality that challenges us, all of us, profoundly, that does not leave us alone", underlined the Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Monsignor José Guadalupe Torres Campos, when celebrating ...
• 30 March 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Puerto Carreño Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Fr. Álvaro Mon Pérez, C.Ss.R., until now chaplain of the Colegio Seminario Redentorista San Clemente in Manizales, as vicar apostolic of ...
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  29 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Jean-Yves Médidor: "During the days of the kidnapping, the strength of prayer sustained me" Croix des Bouquets (Agenzia Fides) - A week after his release, Father Jean-Yves Médidor, a missionary of the Clerics of Saint Viator kidnapped in Croix des Bouquets on March 10, told Agenzia Fides the ordeal of his kidn ...