America

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  5 June 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Thursday, June 8th at 1pm: "One minute for peace in the world" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The National Justice and Peace Commission, the Argentine Catholic Action, together with the Department of Laity, the Episcopal Commission for Ecumenism, Relations with Judaism, Islam and th ...
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  2 June 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops' "Serious concern" for President Trump's decision on the Paris Agreement Washington (Agenzia Fides) - President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday that the United States will not honor the Paris agreement on climate change. The United States and China, the two largest carbon emitters, and 19 ...
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  2 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Mining activity yes, but not like this and not here": Mgr. Londoño Buitrago and the community of Antioquia defend the territory Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Jericho, Mgr. Noel Antonio Londoño Buitrago, C.SS.R., joined the voices of protest of farmers, breeders and civil leaders of the municipalities of Pueblorrico, Ta ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Dramatic situation, children and sick people die Maturín (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the Country is dramatic, there is no food and people have reached the limit of tolerance". This is what His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Pérez Lavado, Bishop of the diocese of Maturín, ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Soldiers and sailors, anonymous heroes who give hope to citizens scared by violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Mexico is aware of the fact that at the moment our country is experiencing a crisis, where crime impoverishes the nation, because of criminal organizations that have expanded ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Trafficking, sexual abuse and early marriages: girls are the main victims Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - In northern Mexico, 3 out of four children, victims of sexual exploitation, are forced to marry early, most of them less than 16 years of age. The complaint comes from a study carried out by a g ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas Campaign in view of the annual collection: poor people always on the rise Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Argentina is carrying out a national campaign in view of its annual collection for the needy, inviting to express solidarity through a concrete gesture that effectively helps transf ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops close to the suffering and uncertainty of Venezuelans Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "In these difficult moments of the life of Venezuelan people, we are not alien to the suffering and uncertainty that Venezuelans live", writes the President of the Cuban episcopal Conference His ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Huatla launches drought alert in Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - After more than 20 days without rain, the Mazateca region is going through the worst crisis ever suffered as a result of drought, along with the lack of medical services. This situation has alrea ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Alarm for the death for malnutrition of 8 children in a week La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - Between 14 and 20 May eight new cases of deaths were reported for malnutrition and, according to the National Institute of Health, 40% of them in Chocó and la Guajira. In the departments of ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priests in Guayana: "We cannot keep silent in the face of repression" Guyana (Agenzia Fides) - Priests and deacons of the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela) wrote a letter to the "pilgrim people of our beloved land and to all men of good will" to express a profound rejection of every ex ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Robles Ortega asks for clarification on the murder of two indigenous wixarika leaders Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, after Sunday Mass yesterday asked to clarify the events related to the assassination of indigenous leaders of Wixarika ...
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  26 May 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 10 people killed in a clash with the police for land dispute Belem (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 people were killed during a clash with the police in the state of Para, northern Brazil, on May 24. The Department of Public Security announced that nine men and a woman died during a ...
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  26 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA -Redemptorists: "Our prophetic vocation leads us to denounce violence and clashes among brothers" Marianella (Agenzia Fides) - "Our prophetic vocation leads us to denounce intolerance, the use of violence, clashes among brothers, imposition with force, fear, persecution and arrest: contrary to the dignity of every pe ...
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  24 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa invokes the appeal of Blessed Romero: "Please, I beg you, I order you to stop the repression!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The Day of Prayer for Peace in Venezuela was held in all the dioceses of the country on May 21, to ask the Lord for the solution regarding the political and economic problem, to put a stop to v ...