America

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  4 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The judicial system has lost credibility" denounces Mgr. Muñoz Zamora Coatzacoalcos (Agenzia Fides) - "We must try to make sure that this justice is not blind and takes into account the social conditions of people, otherwise these institutions completely lose their credibility", emphasized ...
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  4 September 2017
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Emigrants from Africa and Asia increase, Church denounces the governments’ indifference San José (Agenzia Fides) - A boat carrying emigrants from Africa and Mongolia sank on Friday 1 September in the waters off Northwest Costa Rica, resulting in one death and a child is missing, according to El Heraldo new ...
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  1 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Barreto writes to President Santos: "Social investments are needed to stop violence" Quibdo (Agenzia Fides) - Once again the Bishop of the Diocese of Quibdo, Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, wrote to the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, asking him to stop the violence in the area of Chocò. In his let ...
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  1 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Fourth border Bishops' Meeting: "Need to avoid the criminalization of migrants" Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - Migration has now become a "humanitarian crisis" on the southern border of Mexico with the Central American area: is one of the conclusions drawn up by the Bishops who participated in the Fou ...
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  31 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - After Church and environmental pressures, the decree on the abolition of Renca blocked Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, August 30, a Brazilian judge, Rolando Spanholo, blocked an attempt by the president, to open up swaths of the Amazon forest to mining companies in a large reserve in the Amazon rainf ...
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  30 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Here I am, send me": month of the Bible in a missionary term Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Several Latin American countries dedicate the month of September, in which the feast of Saint Jerome is celebrated (September 30) whose Vulgate is a Latin translation of the Bible, to a special ...
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  30 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The 30th "Week for Peace" coincides with the Pope’s visit "a friend of peace" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The 2017 edition of the "Week for Peace", to be held in Colombia from 3 to 10 September, coincides this year with two important events for the country: the beginning of consolidating the peace pr ...
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  29 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The relics of Father Ramírez transfered, the Martyr of Armero, the next blessed San Sebastian de La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - A long and crowded procession accompanied the transfer of the relics of Fr. Pedro María Ramírez Ramos, known as "Martyr of Armero", from the main cemetery to the church of Sa ...
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  29 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Repam: incalculable environmental risks and social damage due to the extinction of Renca Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam) rejects the extinction of the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), decided by the government, considering it "a blasphemy of Brazilian de ...
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  28 August 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops establish an Ad Hoc Committee "against the sin of racism" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has established an Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, which will focus on addressing the sin of racism in society, and even in the Churc ...
• 28 August 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 August 2017, Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aguarico, (Ecuador), presented by His Excellency Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, ...
• 28 August 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Camiri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 2, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri (Bolivia) presented by His Exc. Mgr. Francesco Focardi, O.F.M.(SL) (Ag ...
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  28 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Priest killed in his home in Borborema Borborema (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Pedro Gomes Bezerra was found dead in his home in Borborema, in the Brazilian state of Paraibo, on the morning of August 24. The priest's body, wrapped in a sheet, was stabbed at least 2 ...
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  21 August 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Reyes denounces: "37 detainees massacred in a planned manner in Puerto Ayacucho" Puerto Ayacucho (Agenzia Fides) - "These people were massacred in a planned manner", said the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Ayacucho (Venezuela), Mgr. Jonny Eduardo Reyes Sequera, S.D.B. on the massacre last Wednesday in the ...
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  21 August 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "There is no justice in Chaco" denounces the Apostolic Vicar El Chaco (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B., Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo (Paraguay) has denounced the irresponsibility in the judicial management of public defenders who won the competi ...