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30 October 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration, both in Central America and in Mexico, is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption", reads the editorial of th ...
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29 October 2018
AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops on the consultation for the new Constitution: conscious and responsible participation of all
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In a long and articulated pastoral Letter just published, the Episcopal Conference of Cuba has expressed itself on the project of the new Constitution of the country which, at the end of the revi ...
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29 October 2018
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth and migrants: the response of the Church of Belem on the path towards the 2019 Synod
Belem (Agenzia Fides) - A big center for youth Pastoral care, where promoting human and integral formation of young people, is the response of the diocese of Belem, one of the great metropolises of the Amazon, to the gre ...
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26 October 2018
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - US Commission for religious freedom: "The Church in Nicaragua must be protected, not aggressively attacked"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Samuel D. Brownback, said that "the situation of the Catholic clergy in Nicaragua is not acceptable" and believes tha ...
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25 October 2018
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fr. Narváez: "Patience and forgiveness are needed for lasting peace"
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is erroneously believed that forgiveness is only a religious or spiritual resource, but forgiveness is also a political virtue". With this vision, the Foundation for Reconciliation (FR), fou ...
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24 October 2018
AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops and the "human tragedy" of the caravan: "we were deaf to the cries of their rights"
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Honduras are concerned about the serious migration crisis of thousands of Hondurans who are leaving the country. The caravan now has arrived in Mexico, and the US government h ...
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24 October 2018
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On April 27, 2019 the beatification of Mgr. Angelelli, two priests and a layman in La Rioja
La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification ceremony of Monsignor Enrique Angelelli, of priests Carlos Murias and Gabriel Longueville and of the layman Wenceslao Pedernera, killed during the dictatorship, in the summer ...
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23 October 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Listening to the cries of the brother for us Christians means commitment and action"
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "The cries of the poor", the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) has just published a letter to remind the Mexican community that the Catholic Church, at the invitation of Po ...
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23 October 2018
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Victims of conflict, migrants, social leaders in danger: Colombian Bishops call for collaboration in Europe
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The European Parliament, the French Parliament, the British Government, the Commissions of the Episcopates of the European Union, France, England and Wales, Internationalis and German Caritas, as ...
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22 October 2018
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and freedom": the requests of the population resound in the Cathedral of Managua
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - For three weeks now, the military forces of the government have tightened controls on the protest marches of the population, preventing any kind of public demonstration in the streets of the cap ...
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20 October 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Honduran march to the USA continues. Trump: the army will close the borders
San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 thousand Hondurans arrived yesterday, 19 October, on the border with Mexico from Honduras. The Mexican government had announced, like those of El Salvador and Guatema ...
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17 October 2018
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We are not criminals, we are migrants": three thousand Hondurans fleeing their country
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - They have now traveled about 300 km, from Tegucigalpa (Honduras) to Zacapa (Guatemala): there are about three thousand Hondurans who during their their journey to the United States welco ...
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16 October 2018
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Presidential run-off, the Church: "Need to protect the Constitution and democracy"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Constitution is intended to ensure the exercise of social and individual rights, as supreme values of a fraternal, plural society and without prejudices", and today the Charter "is affecte ...
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15 October 2018
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mgr. Irineu Roman: "to give value to the expressions of faith brought by the people of the Amazon" as the Synod asks
Belem (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday October 14th, the second Sunday of the month, the "Cirio de Nazaré" feast was celebrated, as every year in Belem, capital of Pará state and one of the largest cities of the Ama ...
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15 October 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - Lifeless body of the parish priest who died three days ago has been found
Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - Some days after his death, on the afternoon of Saturday 13 October, in Ley del Servicio Civil area (Tijuana), the lifeless body of father Ícmar Arturo Orta was found. This was announced by the ...
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