America

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  11 June 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Liturgical songs in Ticuna language Alto Solimões (Agencia Fides) - The peoples of the Amazon preserve a great variety of indigenous languages, some of which are spoken by relatively large groups. One of these is Ticuna, spoken by the population that bear ...
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  11 June 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - People ask for transparency and fairness: the Bishops are on the people's side Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice will bring about peace; right will produce calm and security": is the biblical verse (Isaiah 32, 17) chosen by the Peruvian Episcopal Conference’s message addressed to public opinion. Th ...
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  6 June 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Support also by the American government for the Bishops' commitment to national dialogue Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The US government supports the efforts of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua in the search for a negotiated solution to the conflict taking place in the country: says Vice President Pence dur ...
• 6 June 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Osvaldo Duarte Ramirez, CSsR Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 26 April 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the rev. Fr. Osvaldo Duarte Ramirez, CSsR (Congregation of the Most Holy ...
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  5 June 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral Land Commission: "scandalous increase of victims in the last year", 71 peasants killed Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, June 4, the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) presented its "Notebook of Conflicts", at the headquarters of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), in Brasilia, in which ...
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  5 June 2018
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Escuintla: "Help the thousands of people affected by the eruption of the volcano Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with the painful loss of life, the many injured and the thousands of people affected by the recent eruption of the Volcano of Fire, in Escuintla and other departments, we express o ...
• 5 June 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Santiago Alberto Beltran Vergara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 26 April 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Santiago Alberto Beltran Vergara, of the diocesan clergy of ...
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  4 June 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Parish priests alongside young people, while violence continues Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - "On Saturday a young man was executed, this is the right word, because he was arrested, he was helpless, but a woman police officer shot him in the chest. The young man told her: if you have the ...
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  4 June 2018
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Fuego volcano eruption: at least 25 dead and several children among the 20 injured Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - At least 25 people have died, 20 injured and 1 million and 700 thousand who live in the area are affected in some way by the Fuego volcano eruption in Guatemala, 40 km southwest of the ca ...
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  30 May 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Alcoholism and lack of unity, serious threats to the indigenous communities São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Marcina Alemão Pereira is a 21-year-old indigenous girl who lives in a community in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, on the banks of the Rio Negro, called Taboca ...
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  26 May 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops before the presidential elections: "Let us vote with conscience and responsibility" Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Sunday, May 27, over 36 million Colombians will return to the polls to elect the President who will be in power for four years. Six candidates are vying after the current president, Ju ...
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  25 May 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Sharing, informing and educating": the goal of the IX Meeting of the youth ministry leaders of Venezuela Montalbán (Agencia Fides) - The IX Formation Meeting for those responsible for youth ministry throughout the Venezuelan territory, which takes place once a year at the headquarters of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference ...
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  23 May 2018
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishop of Limón asks the new President for a commissioner for the indigenous people of the country Limón (Agenzia Fides) - "Our natives need a commissioner to defend their human rights! So I formally suggest President Carlos Alvarado a commissioner for the indigenous peoples of our country, in order to intervene in t ...
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  23 May 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Archbishop Emeritus, appointed Cardinal, Sergio Obeso Rivera: " We must persevere in our faith as the Gospel says" Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus told us not to hate those who think differently from us or do us harm. We must persevere, faithful to our faith and await the moment when 'truth will set us free', as the Gospel says. It ...
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  22 May 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "We are doing everything possible for the love of Jesus Christ and for the love of our country" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The peace we are looking for is not the peace of cemeteries, nor that of subjugated slaves, it is peace that is born from reconciled people. We have accepted to be mediators of the National Dia ...