America

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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Another peasant killed for land conflict, a national policy is lacking Parà (Agenzia Fides) - Just over a month after the massacre of 10 peasants in Pau D'arco, in the Brazilian state of Para (see Fides 26/05/2017), another rural worker was killed in the same region. On Friday, July 7 Rose ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest brutally killed in his parish Nezahualcóyotl (Agenzia Fides) - "With great pain and dismay we inform of the death of our diocesan priest Luis Lopez Villa, 71, who on July 5 was killed by criminals who managed to break into San Isidro Labrador Parish ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: to support the people of God in these difficult moments Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From July 7 to 12, the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), attended by 50 Bishops from the 45 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, will be held in Carac ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Indigenous delegations to the Ministry of Justice: We are experiencing great difficulties Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 July, the delegations of the Pataxó, Tupinambá and Kaingang peoples submitted requests to the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, to the Federal Senate Commission for Human Rights and to th ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children in the State of Chihuahua begin to use drugs at the age of 10 Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - Drug use in the state of Chihuahua starts at 10 years of age. The complaint comes from the PCE State Center for Toxicology, of the Mexican State, which is the first in the Country where alarmi ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - On Independence Day, assault against Parliament Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A day of tension was experienced yesterday in Venezuela: on the one hand the celebration of the 206th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Independence, on the other the violence in parliame ...
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  5 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Cardinal Tobin: "We, American Catholics are a Church of Migrants" Orlando (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the closing of the largest meeting of North American Catholics in Orlando, in the United States of America, which gathered more than 3,000 people, the Archbishop of Newark (New ...
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  5 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Padron: "Human rights must be respected in Venezuela"; another young man dies in the clashes Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), Archbishop of Cumaná, Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sanchez, recalled that the social and political crisis in his country is "very serio ...
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  4 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Cardinal Da Rocha: "Corruption kills! Market interests are not a reason to sacrifice the people!" Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - It is not the first time that the Bishops of Brazil warn about the economic reforms of the government, but the President of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), Cardinal Sergio Da ...
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  4 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Poverty, discrimination, infant marriages among the Latin American plagues Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The percentage of pregnant teenagers in Chile is higher in the Afro descent and Indigenous population. The ethno-racial component also aggravates the phenomenon. The figures were anno ...
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  4 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops renew their appeal for Sister Gloria’s release, four countries involved Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - After the video in which Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez appears, kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Mali, on February 7 (see Fides 8 and 9/02/2017), the President of the Episcopal Conference Of Colombia, ...
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  3 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Moreno Barrón: "It is absurd to think that a wall is a sign of progress" Baja California (Agenzia Fides) - When he was appointed Archbishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte in Mexico, he never thought he would have to deal with the problem of migration so closely, but now, as he says, "it ha ...
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  3 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Even Sister Gloria Cecilia in the video released by Al Qaeda with those kidnapped in Mali Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed that it has received proof that Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoty, the Colombian missionary abducted on 8 February in the village of Kara ...
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  1 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Now more than ever unity is strength": the greetings of Mgr. Epalza in Buenaventura Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "The affection of the people of Buenaventura is in my mind and heart, and I tell you that now more than ever unity is strength. This is my message: to continue with that tenacity, resistanc ...
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  1 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa: "Enough violence, one could speak of a government war against the people" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "One could speak of a government war against the people", says Cardinal Urosa who condemned the violent repression by both state security forces and paramilitary groups against the demonstrators ...