America

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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 ...
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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 ...