America

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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 ...
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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 ...