America

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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The country has been experiencing a critical social situation for 50 days: a new strike El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - "What are we doing to make the population receive true justice?" asked Mgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of the diocese of El Alto and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. "Befo ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - 300 thousand rosaries made with commitment and hope by prisoners for the Pope's visit Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, prisoners of twelve Peruvian prisons made about 300 thousand rosaries. This initiative of the National Penitentiary Institute, in coordination with the Archdiocese of Lima, will ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentine faithful will be present during the Pope's visit to Chile Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentineans will greet and show their affection to Pope Francis in Chile. Proximity encourages compatriots of the first South American Pontiff to cross the Andes cordillera and partici ...
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  5 January 2018
  AMERICA - In Chile and Peru, private meetings of indigenous representatives with the Pope Temuco (Chile) - In the next visit to Chile and Peru (January 15 to 21), on two occasions the Pope will have lunch, in private, with a small group of representatives of the indigenous peoples, historically persecuted, di ...
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  4 January 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 2017 "Annus horribilis" for the Amazon. The denunciation of Cardinal Hummes and Bishop Erwin Krautler Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Amazon has been transformed into a land without law or without the rule of law, at the mercy of the arrogance of those who have money and power, and where the political, judiciary and law ...
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  29 December 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Salvadoran Church suffers due to the drama of many emigrants: appeal to the United States for the TPS San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly urge the president of the United States (Donald Trump), the Congress and all the authorities of that great nation, that on this significant date of Christmas they should see to ...
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  29 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 3,000 cases of violence against women in Puno region Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The National Program Against Family and Sexual Violence of the Ministry of Women has released a report informing that up to the month of November, 3 thousand 327 cases of violence were recorded in ...
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  28 December 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - One of the 19,000 volunteers preparing the Pope's visit: "an unforgettable experience" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "Being a papal volunteer is an invitation to be builders of a more beautiful Church and a better world" says Francisca José Miranda, one of the thousands of volunteers who came to hel ...
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  28 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru's President pardons Alberto Fujimori. Heated protests in the country, even for the Bishops it is inappropriate Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Disappointment, in addition to political confusion, is the climate that reigns in Peru after President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardons ex-president Alberto Fujimori condemned and in prison for "cri ...
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  22 December 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops and Catholic partners urge extension of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, Texas, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, was joined by Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Catholi ...
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  15 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - The Amazon and its inhabitants are protagonists of the Pope’s visit to Peru Puerto Maldonado (Peru) - The Amazon will be protagonist in the next apostolic visit of Pope Francis to Peru (18-21 January 2018). "For one day, January 19, Puerto Maldonado will be transformed into a large ecological su ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Court rules on Chiapas: peace on the horizon, humanitarian emergency remains San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is much closer in Chiapas. Yesterday afternoon the Agricultural Court issued a final decision on the process for the conflict of territorial boundaries between the munic ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Two dancers of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe killed, meaningless violence Ciudad Juárez (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no respect for anyone, it is the extreme of evil, how dare they?" asked the Bishop of the diocese of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Mexico), Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, in a ...
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  12 December 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Indigenous theologian: "Ecology of hearts, according to Laudato Sì" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The profound indigenous spirituality, in its harmonious relationship with all creation, sees in the care of the common home a responsibility for future generations.The bond of relationship b ...
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  12 December 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop Baez: "Paralyzed by fear, we are getting used to physical and moral violence" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "There is paralysis due to fear. There are people who are paralyzed by fear, unable to speak or express their outrage because of injustices and abuses of civil and military authorities", denounc ...