America

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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 ...
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  11 December 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Appeal of religious leaders: "No to new taxes, otherwise the recovery will be impossible" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "If Congress treats American citizens living in Puerto Rico differently from American citizens living in the 50 States, considering our island as a foreign jurisdiction, we believe that the r ...
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  7 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops' reflection: "Internal security law" Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to adequately train federal, state and municipal police in order to put an end to insecurity in Mexico, but this goal has failed, there are no trained and efficient police. ...
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  5 December 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic politicians of Latin America: "We ask for a more fraternal civilization" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The scourge of corruption is the most damaging for our peoples of Latin America, public corruption erodes societies, injustice and the lack of unity increase in industrialized countries, the gl ...
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  5 December 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assassination of the missionary Vicente Cañas: executioner condemned Cuiabá (Agenzia Fides) - The only accused survivor, Ronaldo Antônio Osmar, former civil police delegate, accused of participating in the murder of the Spanish Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas, in April 1987, was found ...
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  4 December 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mgr. Gualberti: "The defense of democratic values loses moral force if it is not pursued with peaceful means" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if the reasons for the protests and the defense of democratic values, institutions and the expressed will of the people are right, they lose their moral strength when they are not pursu ...
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  2 December 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church insists on dialogue to resolve the Mapuche conflict and avoid violence Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - "No kind of violence is the solution: A dialogue table should have been opened before or during the conflict, to avoid this repression and violence. Dialogue must always be present": these are ...
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  1 December 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A theologian: "A Year of the Laity to open new paths and perspectives" Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "To recognize the importance of the lay faithful as essential to guarantee the future of the Catholic Church; to understand that they are an integral part of the ecclesial community, effe ...
• 1 December 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bluefields to diocese, creation of the new diocese of Siuna and appointment of the first Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 30, 2017, the Holy Father Francis elevated the Apostolic Vicariate of Bluefields to a diocese, and appointed as Bishop of Bluefields H.E. Msgr. Pablo Schimitz Simon, O.F.M. Cap. ...
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  30 November 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Education and the formation of young people, a bet for a better country Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "We want happy young people who bring happiness, therefore our personal projects, our nation-wide project, must be a bet for young people", said yesterday His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar ...