America

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  13 November 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - To build the "Amazonian face" of the Catholic Church Quito (Ecuador) - The call to create a "Church with an Amazonian face" is a great challenge that opens after Pope Francis’ invitation "to explore paths, expressions and processes that help build and structure a model o ...
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  10 November 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Militarization and human rights violations in the department of Quiché Santa Cruz del Quiché (Agenzia Fides) – There is an increase in the attacks against human rights defenders, who take position against the creation of highly polluted hydroelectric megaprojects in the indigenous Maya-I ...
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  9 November 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Education and shelter for street children in Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - Over a thousand children in the Bolivian outskirts of Santa Cruz de la Sierra are street children, and many others are likely to become street children in an area where violence ...
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  9 November 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A church burned and smeared: why? Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Our commitment as a Church is to announce and promote the Kingdom of Jesus, which is Justice, Truth, Love without exclusion, giving priority to the poor, who are God’s favorites. We want ...
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  8 November 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Synod for the Pan-Amazon region, a Tuyuka priest: "The Church promotes and enhances indigenous peoples" Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the goals of the extraordinary Synod for the Pan-Amazon region is to identify new ways for the evangelization of indigenous peoples in all the Pan-Amazon regions. However, many of thes ...
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  7 November 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops: "We cannot stand still in the face of the dramatic situation of the country" Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to Catholics and the entire Colombian people to "become aware of the reality and of the responsibility we all have" is what the Bishops of Colombia say at the end of their extraord ...
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  4 November 2017
  AMERICA/HAITI - Haitian lay people called to rediscover their mission in society and the Church Port au Prince - (Agenzia Fides) - 180 Catholic lay faithful from all the dioceses of Haiti took part in the National Congress of Laity held in Port au Prince from 31 October to 3 November. The meeting, promoted by the C ...
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  4 November 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Violence and insecurity in Venezuela The nation is going through a deep crisis: it is ranked second among the most violent countries in the world, with over 91 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. The State seems to have handed over the control of securi ...
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  3 November 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops: after critical moments, the elections will allow to make choices regarding the present and the future Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Bishops' Conference of Paraguay (CEP) will be in the Vatican from 5 to 12 November for their Ad limina apostolorum, "bringing with them the report of the episcopal ministry o ...
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  3 November 2017
  AMERICA - Positive peace signs in the continent Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - "Although security in Latin America is still precarious, the first signs of peace are beginning to be registered": this is what emerges from the data in the Global Peace Index 2017 report, recei ...
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  27 October 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops for the elections: "Restoring politics, democracy, rule of law and hope" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – To create a country with a different future, which has dignity and without corruption: this is the wish expressed in a press release, less than one month before the 2017 General Elections, ...
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  26 October 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Catholic laity, protagonist of an "outgoing Church" at the service of the Kingdom Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We know there is a great participation, activity and presence of lay people in the Church, but sometimes this is forgotten and little appreciated, so this is why we, as Episcopal Commission, w ...
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  24 October 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - To look at every man, woman, and every child who emigrates with confidence São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Joseph Marchetti, scalabrinian, co-founder of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters, left Italy to go to Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century, to directly help thousands of emigrant ...
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  24 October 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuelan ad gentes missionaries leave for Mozambique Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the invitation that Pope Francis constantly addresses to announce the Good News of God in all the most remote corners of the Earth, the pilgrim Church in Venezuela has just sent t ...
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  23 October 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops for the elections of November 5: We must become protagonists of our country Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen days before the municipal elections, set for November 5, the Nicaraguan Bishops publish a message saying that nothing has changed in the electoral system of the country, but they call ...