America

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  16 March 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - State-Church convention violated: Catholic education "in a state of emergency" Riberalta (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops raise their voices and with concern they address the parents of the pupils of the 1,523 Catholic educational institutions of the country: schools "cannot guarantee teachin ...
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  16 March 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church: "No" to the censorship of social media Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The state should not control or censor social media because it would limit freedom of expression, nor should it stand as a moral arbiter of people": this is what Mgr. Silvio José Báez, auxili ...
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  15 March 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth in the Amazon: a daily journey to access basic education São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Living within the Amazon means facing the difficulty of accessing basic education. Education is usually carried out in the communities themselves, where schools, in most cases, ...
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  12 March 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA- Elections won by right wing contrary to negotiations for peace Bogotà (Agencia Fides) – General elections in Colombia, held Sunday 11 March, saw a clear win for right wing Parties which openly oppose peace talks tabled with guerrilla groups of Marxist matrix. According to fir ...
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  8 March 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - "Youth, educators in faith": first week of formation for the catechists of Cusco Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - "Christian initiation requires young people to be educators in faith, because we are experiencing a moment of crisis in educational institutions such as parishes, families or schools. This is why ...
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  8 March 2018
  AMERICA - Catholic female journalists: a voice in the fight against injustice Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of women in Latin America shows a deficit in respect of rights, social inclusion and equal opportunities, despite the progress made; it is the task of the Catholic press to keep atten ...
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  7 March 2018
  AMERICA - Celam: "Taking on the missionary discipleship of the Gospel implies guarding creation" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Discerning the signs of the times" is a characteristic of the Church's pastoral theological work in fulfilling this mission. The Bishops of CELAM want to scrutinize the signs of the times and i ...
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  6 March 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Cruel and inhuman reality": the situation of Venezuelan immigrants requires urgent answers Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuelan immigrants live "a cruel and inhumane reality that requires rapid, effective and articulate responses from Churches, the State and society in general". This is the opinion contained ...
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  3 March 2018
  AMERICA - Hispanic American Day: "The mission is in both directions" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "On this day we pray for the missionaries but also for many of our Latin American brothers and sisters who have come to live among us, enriching our society with their cultural traditions and the ...
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  2 March 2018
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops: "No Ecuadorian must justify, tolerate or relativize corruption" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the strong accusations of corruption and the reciprocal reprimands of which various authorities in the moral, legal and political fields are protagonists", the Bishops of Ecuador p ...
• 2 March 2018
  AMERICA/SAINT-PIERRE ET MIQUELON - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and unification in the Diocese of La Rochelle Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 March, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon presented by His Exc. Mgr. Pierre-Marie Gaschy, C.S.S ...
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  1 March 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Misión frontera Venezuela" begins: listening to immigrants fleeing from Venezuela Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last 45 days more than 18,000 Venezuelans have arrived in Roraima, it is estimated that between 300 and 400 people arrive every day, all in need of information and with a great desire ...
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  28 February 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Dangers and risks for young people due to the abuse of digital media Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "When the media of the digital world become omnipresent, they do not favor the development of the ability to live wisely, to think deeply and to love with generosity", says Prof. Edy Rodríguez Mor ...
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  27 February 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Cardinal da Rocha: "Too much aggression in social media". Also Carnival highlighted the violence Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There is too much violence in social media and aggression "is shared by many Catholics present in social networks": this is the alarm launched by Cardinal Sergio da Rocha, Archbishop of Brasili ...
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  22 February 2018
  AMERICA - Christians pray for peace in Africa and also in Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We join Pope Francis’ appeal to believers all over the world, for a special prayer for peace in Congo and South Sudan, to be held on Friday 23 February": says Mgr. Aldo Giordano, Apostolic Nu ...