America

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  14 September 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Lake Titicaca: a route without any control for the trafficking of children Puno (Agenzia Fides) - To raise awareness among citizens about the serious crime of trafficking and establish common working criteria between the Church, society and the State in order to reduce these cases that occur da ...
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  13 September 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Let us share the journey of life with everyone": Rancagua and the commitment to migrants Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years it has been estimated that more than half a million migrants have arrived in Chile, mostly from the countries of America. Several thousand arrived in the O'Higgins region, at th ...
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  12 September 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Congress: corruption, lack of ethics, environmental devastation, call in a "Church that goes forth" Recife (Agenzia Fides) - "The 4th National Missionary Congress was the meeting of brothers and sisters who shared their faith, their struggles, their anguish, their dreams, their hopes. During this time we felt the Holy ...
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  11 September 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Caritas Venezuela's humanitarian program to counter hunger and denutrition Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Solid Pots" is one of the initiatives launched by Caritas Venezuela to counteract the food shortage in the poorest regions of the Country, particularly among children, adults and sick people. T ...
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  11 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pope's message to Colombians: "Do not resist reconciliation" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us take the first step" was the motto of the apostolic visit carried out by Pope Francis in Colombia, just concluded, in support of the ongoing reconciliation process in a country marked by ...
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  9 September 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Cura Brochero inspires priests today Brochero (Agenzia Fides) - The spirit, the service and the mission of Cura Brochero - the holy priest, canonized on October 16, 2016 by Pope Francis – is an inspiration for the mission of the Argentine priests today: s ...
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  8 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pope Francis: The Church becomes missionary only because it follows Jesus’ attractiveness Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - What moves the church to mission "is not the enthusiasm that burns the generous heart of the missionary", it is rather the "companionship of Jesus in his Spirit. If we do not we set out with Him ...
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  8 September 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - After a century, the pilgrimage to Cuba's patron saint has been suspended due to hurricane Irma Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - For a century the pilgrimage of the Cubans to Our Lady of Caridad del Cobre has never been suspended (see Fides 9/09/2016). Yesterday, for the first time, every pilgrimage to the Sanctuary was ...
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  7 September 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Hurricane Irma hits the island of Puerto Rico Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Irma, category 5, hits the US territory of Puerto Rico. The island has been watching its economy decline for years, has $74 billion in debt and suffers from cuts to emergency servic ...
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  6 September 2017
  OMNIS TERRA - NEWS ANALYSIS - The Pope's visit and the knots to unravel Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – It is a country in deep transformation, where the knots to unravel represent the many opportunities for change. The Colombia that welcomes Pope Francis (from September 6 to10) recently re-wrot ...
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  6 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Street children, a phenomenon that is passed on from father to son Durango (Agenzia Fides) - In the urban environments of the Country, there is a third generation of children and adolescents who are born in a street situation and who do not have a better life choice and do not know anot ...
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  6 September 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops on the end of DACA: "A decision that is reprehensible and heartbreaking" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The US Episcopal Conference quickly responded to the Trump administration’s decision to put an end to a program implemented under President Barack Obama which aimed at protecting the so-cal ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Agreement for the ceasefire between ELN and government Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With a press conference in Quito,the Colombian government and representatives of the National Liberation Army (ELN) yesterday announced the bilateral ceasefire until January 2018. The Foreign Mini ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: "We all ask for an attitude of dialogue for the international image of the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guatemala, in a statement sent to Fides, deplore the current situation of the country and express "their concern for the political and ideological confrontation around the ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A new facility for pregnant women from areas without medical facilities Araguaina (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Tocantinopolis, Mgr. Giovane Pereira de Melo, blessed the premises of the new House for pregnant women, babies and for women who have just given birth of the Don O ...