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  18 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishop of Villarrica demands immediate and definitive end to La Araucania violence Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – As every year on 15 August, thousands gathered all over the country to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, a much loved feast-day for Chilean Catholics. In La Araucanía Catholics working ...
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  17 August 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Assumption, archbishop Valenzuela laments ‘indifference going global!’ Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Crowds of faithful took part in festivities for the annual major holiday to mark the commemoration of the Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Indeed Holy Mary the mother of Jes ...
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  11 August 2017
  UNITED STATES - Thanks to Catholic Bishop Mexican mother may remain in US to care for her daughter El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – A Mexican women, mother of three who risked deportation has been given permission to remain in the United States for another six months, thanks to the intervention of Bishop Mark J. Seitz of ...
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  10 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops: “No nuclear power station in Rio Negro” Neuquen (Agenzia Fides) – During a meeting chaired by Bishop emeritus Virginio Bressanelli diocesan Administrator of Neuquén, the highest Catholic authorities in Patagonia (Argentina) rejected a plan announced by the ...
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  9 August 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 60 per cent of Guatemalans live in poverty Ciudad de Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - The scenario of inequality, racism, poverty and undernourishment in Guatemala is evident. Of the at least 16 million people living in this Latin American country, 60% suffer conditi ...
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  8 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Promote real integration for migrants in Chile” demands Cardinal Ezzati Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – "It is important to accept migrants, but this is not sufficient, we must integrate with them, and this means making laws to foster genuine integration with relative respect for human rights", ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTORICO - Collecting shoes to enable children in Haiti to go to school San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – The We All Care, Inc non-profit organization has launched an appeal to people in Puerto Rico to get together to collect shoes for needy children aged 3 to 9 in Haiti. On that Caribbean islan ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Funds assigned for the Catholic Church in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The United States Catholic Bishops Conference (USCCB), by means of its Commission for the Latin American Churches has assigned a sum of almost 6 million dollars: 4 to support the pastoral ...
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  5 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO -“We are grateful to Congress for approving funds for the poorest of the poor” San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – We are grateful that Congress has approved a law which foresees a process to restructure the Island’s debt” say Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves of San Juan de Puerto Rico and Rever ...
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  4 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On August 4, Bishop Enrique Angelelli, committed to the poor was killed La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 1976, Father Arturo Pinto and Mgr. Angelelli were returning from a celebration in honor of two priests killed. Along the way to Cordoba, two cars approached them and crushed agains ...
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  4 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops: "We will not be a different Country unless we overcome naivety, passivity and indifference" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not be a different Country unless we overcome naivety, passivity and indifference", concludes the final message of the meeting of the Pastoral Care for Social Action of the National Bi ...
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  3 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Human Rights International Film Festival brings together new directors Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - Cinema creates a space to give way to the creativity of new film directors. With this aim, the Bogotá Human Rights International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Latin American Rule of ...
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  3 August 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The priest wounded on May 15 in Mexico’s city Metropolitan Cathedral has died Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "On Wednesday, August 2, the medical director of the Intensive Care Unit of the National Institute of Medical Science (INCM) announced that Father José Miguel Machorro has a brain death sit ...
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  2 August 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Caravan of Friendship of the Pastors for Peace arrives in Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - This year, the 28th Caravan of the United States-Cuba Friendship also landed on the Caribbean island. As part of its agenda, the group will tour several Cuban provinces and meet with people, chur ...
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  1 August 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - A missionary donates a new tabernacle to the parish of San José de Los Llanos San José de Los Llanos (Agenzia Fides) - About two months ago, the tabernacle was desecrated and taken away in the parish of San José de Los Llanos. On July 30, Father Christopher Hartley, a diocesan missionary in Tole ...