America

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  5 September 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Week for Peace re-launches dialogue with ELN and the release of all the kidnapped Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Week for Peace (see Fides, 1/09/2018), which coincides with the first anniversary of the Pope’s visit to Colombia (see Fides, 6/09/2017), the president of the Social Pas ...
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  5 September 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Salesian missionary missing in Amazonia during a storm São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 3 September Salesian missionary Norberto Hohenscherer disappeared while he was traveling alone on his canoe, down the river Uaupes, in the Brazilian Amazon. According ...
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  4 September 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Migration routes and the scourge of trafficking in the Amazon are increasing Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Speaking of trafficking, the first attitude to be taken "is to put yourself in the shoes of victims". In reality, trafficking is a violation of human dignity and rights, a commodification of life ...
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  3 September 2018
  AMERICA - Open letter: our peoples condemned to a present and a future of destruction and death Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The serious and often irreversible damage and violations of human rights and the rights of nature caused by the current mining model, promoted, sustained and nourished by the immoral, inhuman ...
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  8 August 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Threats to those assisting Venezuelan immigrants, while the border reopens Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - From death threats to members of the Jesuit Refugees and Migrants Service (SJMR), and to media attacks against members of the Catholic community, the Church responds with "a refusal to any inc ...
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  7 August 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - New roads in the Amazon endanger the indigenous in voluntary isolation Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Without the consent of the indigenous peoples of the area and without even consulting them, the province of Purús is approving the construction of roads in the area", says to Fides Ismael Vega, d ...
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  6 August 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Henao: to stop the killings of social leaders, we need to build "community leadership" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - 311 social leaders murdered in two and a half years. This is the dramatic data released at the beginning of July by the Office of the People's Defender (ombudsman) of Colombia, referring to the p ...
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  2 August 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Juvencio Piratapuia: "school is the place where to spread the sense of community in the Amazon communities" São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Education is one of the great challenges in the indigenous communities of the Amazon region. Juvencio Piratapuia is a professor in the community of Tabocal dos Pereira, municip ...
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  31 July 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Amazon: over 150 peoples in voluntary isolation risk extinction Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - "The existence of these groups is frequently denied or made invisible, which in many cases facilitates the authorization of economic activities that directly affect their territories". ...
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  28 July 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - To be contemplative in action: World Assembly of Christian Life Communities Buenos Aires (Agencia Fides) - From Sunday 22nd to Tuesday 31st July, representatives of 70 countries are gathered in Buenos Aires for the World Assembly of Christian Life Communities - CVX. Pope Francis, in a message s ...
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  27 July 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Another priest murdered in Medellín Medellin (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday 25, Fr. John Fredy Garcia Jaramillo, 50, was found dead in his home in the neighborhood of Bethlehem Los Almendros, in the south-west part of Medellin. According to the news sent ...
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  27 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Letter from the Bishops to the President: tell us in writing if you want us to continue mediation Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) have decided to ask, in writing, the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, if he wishes the Bishops to still be mediators and witnesse ...
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  27 July 2018
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Towards the cause of canonization: Salvador García Pintos: a politician, doctor and father Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The cause of canonization of Dr. Salvador García Pintos officially began on 25 July in Montevideo. He was a doctor, politician, professor, journalist, director of Catholic civil society inst ...
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  26 July 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another journalist has been killed in Mexico Quintana Roo (Agenzia Fides) - Journalist Rubén Pat Cauich was gunned down on Tuesday, July 24, the second journalist for the Mexican news site slain in less than a month, in front of a bar in Playa del Carmen, in the M ...
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  26 July 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Thanks to Caritas, the families of Paquemás return to their seized lands Turbo (Agenzia Fides) - In a short documentary the Colombian Caritas reports the story of the displaced people of Paquemás, refugees of the internal armed conflict, who after 21 years are returning to their lands thanks ...