America

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  2 October 2017
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - "United we stand, divided we fall ": Archbishop of San Juan’s appeal for the rebirth of the Country devastated by hurricanes San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "Puerto Rico has been demolished but not completely destroyed", reports to Fides Mgr. Roberto O. González Nieves, OFM, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, President of the Epis ...
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  2 October 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bilateral ceasefire between Government and ELN has begun, the Church protagonists in the path to peace Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "To help find the way to ensure peace, a solid and complete peace, this is the purpose of our participation in the dialogues", said His Exc. Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, Bishop of the Diocese of Qu ...
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  29 September 2017
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dialogue for socio-economic development restarts, even the Bishops meet the President Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After only seven months since taking office as President of the Republic of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse is facing a situation that is putting him to the test. The population does not accept t ...
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  28 September 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Economic and social crisis: minors, adolescents and older people in the streets rummaging for food among the waste Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The long economic and social crisis that Venezuela is experiencing and the great difficulty in finding groceries are having a worrying impact on children and families living in more vulnerable s ...
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  28 September 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Share the Journey" campaign begins, to welcome migrants who "too often seem invisible to us" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The worldwide campaign to support displaced people began yesterday, September 27. On the same day, several Bishops across the United States joined Pope Francis as he launched the "Share the J ...
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  27 September 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mapuche issue: clashes and arrests outside the Cathedral of Concepcion Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - At least 30 people were arrested after a demonstration outside the Cathedral of Concepcion in southern Chile. During the demonstrations, several citizens who support 4 Mapuche activists who h ...
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  26 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Arauca appeals to ELN: "to make the peace process credible" Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to launch this appeal to everyone, we must make the peace process credible, we must make people feel that all this is true, that the path that has been taken is true, that we are acting s ...
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  25 September 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Support from 12 countries with regards to the dialogue between government and opposition, the Church is the only institution that people trust Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Foreign ministers from 12 US countries consider the new relations of the Venezuelan government with the opposition very positive, but they believe that they should be developed with internationa ...
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  22 September 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Cathedral of Concepción occupied by the families of Mapuche Political Prisoners, Mgr. Chomali mediator Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday a group of protesters, family members of the Mapuche Political Prisoners (PPM), occupied the Cathedral of Concepción. Immediately after Archbishop Mgr. Fernando Chomali urged the ...
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  21 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More than 200 dead after powerful earthquake hits Mexico, one word and a gesture among Christians: solidarity Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - Civil society organizations, solidarity groups, Catholic communities are contributing to promptly reporting the areas most affected by the violent earthquake that hit the country on 19 September ...
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  20 September 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Critical situation and huge damage due to hurricane Irma: Bishops close to the population Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) – To ascertain the damage caused by hurricanes, comfort the victims, and organize relief: is what the Catholic communities in the Antilles are doing. "Among the recent hurricanes that cont ...
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  20 September 2017
  AMERICA - Child labor: 152 million victims, the Church asks to address the root problem New York (Agenzia Fides) - The new research carried out jointly by the International Labor Organization (OIT in Spanish) and by the Walk Free Fundation, in collaboration with the World Organization for Migration (WOM), r ...
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  19 September 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The people against corruption, the Church condemns those who promote impunity Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala lives one of the worst moments of its democratic life: almost all the country's institutions have declared themselves against Congress which has announced the Reform of the Crim ...
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  19 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Health problems for the missionary nun kidnapped in Mali in February Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to Colombian National Police, Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, a Colombian nun of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, seized in February in Karangasso, Southern ...
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  15 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Eight days after earthquake: 90 dead, villages still totally isolated, aid hub: Mexico's Catholic Church Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – A week has passed since the tremendous 7 September earth quake in Mexico epicentre area of Pijijiapan, in Chiapas, followed by 634 after-quakes, which left thousands of families homeless and c ...