America

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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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  12 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Romero continues to inspire a more just society Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Nicaragua is preparing to celebrate the canonization of Mgr. Romero, on October 14th, also through digital tools, launching the #OigamosARomero hastag in all social networks. The ...
• 12 October 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, Fr. Luis Alberto Nahuelanca Munoz, OFM Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 31 July 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Luis Alberto Nahuelanca Munoz, OFM as National Director of th ...
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  12 October 2018
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Funeral of the priest found dead in Quito have been celebrated Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Fr. Arturo Rene Pozo Sampaz, presided over by the Archbishop of Quito, Mgr. Fausto Travez Travez, was celebrated yesterday, 11 October, in the Basilica of the Vote Nacional in Quito ...
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  11 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Difficulty in the inculturation of the Gospel and lack of pastoral workers in the Amazon São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - "The liturgy of the Mass in the indigenous communities, is not always understood and appreciated", "due to shyness and shame people have difficulty participating", explains to ...
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  10 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Evangelizing the cities": the first continental meeting of urban pastoral care begins Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Looking for ways to evangelize the new "urban culture" and the inhabitants of the cities, places of constant change, of cultural multiplicity and demographic growth: this is the main purpose ...
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  10 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "We must have faith": a child kidnapped in Colombia released Santander (Agenzia Fides) - "Thanks to Colombia, God has listened to our prayers. We must have faith because it is always merciful", said Diana Arévalo, hearing the news of the return of her son. In fact, on Tuesday, Oc ...
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  9 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - G20 Interreligious forum: religions give life to development Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The G20 Interreligious Forum has recorded a great wealth of thematic proposals and an unprecedented participation of political authorities (see Fides 26/09/2018). Religions will help "give ...
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  9 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Archbishop of Acapulco: "It is urgent to stop rampant violence and end impunity" Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to know the root regarding the acts of violence to prevent them from happening again": this is what the Archbishop of Acapulco, Archbishop Leopoldo González González says in a note s ...
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  8 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops' spokesperson: "It is urgent to bring democracy back to the country" Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - The creation of the Blue and White National Unit network (UNAB), a group that brings together various acronyms and associations, will work with the hope that "it will be able to achieve its goals ...