America

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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - A church burned in Mapuches conflict area in Chile Vilcun (Agenzia Fides) – An evangelical church has been burned to the ground along the road from Cajon to Vilcun. According to a note by Radio Bio Bio, sent to Fides, the arson attack happened late Tuesday, July 25. ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Hundreds of children wear fancy-dresses for the Santiago Wanka feast Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – The schoolchildren of seven school institutes gave life to the start of the traditional Santiago Wanka feast in Huancayo province. With great enthusiasm, hundreds of children represented the ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue on illegal mining, a first positive approach Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) – The meeting between Colombian Minister for Mining and Energy Carlos Andrés Cante and the Catholic Bishops held on 24 July in order to clarify the main points of this activity in different p ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Goic Karmelic's reflection: For a democracy based on values Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - "The debate in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last week, on the abolition of abortion, saddened me with regards to democracy based on values which since my childhood I was taught to nurture ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - In debt with childhood: Dominican children are deprived of their rights Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 13% of minors in the Dominican Republic are forced to work, about 15% do not go to school and 28% are married or cohabit. These alarming data have been reported by the "In Debt with ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A bomb explodes at the entrance of the Episcopal Conference, appeal for calm Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 25, a bomb exploded at the main entrance of the Mexican Episcopal Conference headquarters in Mexico City around 1.50 am, causing some damage but no one was injured. "We appreciate t ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Detroit judge blocks deportation of Iraqi immigrants for 90 days Detroit (Agenzia Fides) – A judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportations of Chaldean Christians and other Iraqi immigrants ordered last June by virtue of the new immigration rules implemented ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops on the decriminalization of abortion: With more force than before, we promote the value of life Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Following the approval of the draft law by the Chilean Senate that decriminalizes the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three particular cases, "there will be laws on euthanasia and so on" ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Thirty years ago the martyrdom of a Spanish Bishop and a Colombian nun who defended the natives Quito (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, what seemed like a friendly encounter in a remote Ecuadoran jungle (today is the province of Orellana) turned out to be the terrible killing of a Spanish Bishop and a Colombian r ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Coloring horror: Children's drawings reflect the violence they live Sacoj Mixco (Agenzia Fides) - Delinquency, drugs, family problems and daily terror: This is how the children in their fifth and sixth year who go to the Primary School of the Educational Center Dr Bloem, in Sacoj Mixco, ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Elizondo on the destruction of a chapel:Security and respect of everybody’s rights Cancun (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal, Mgr. Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, in his homily yesterday said that media sometimes report that evil is winning because bad news is what is m ...
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  21 July 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Cardinal Lacunza has been asking to resolve the situation of Cubans blocked in Panama for months David (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Luis Lacunza O.A.R., Bishop of the Diocese of David (Panama), has asked the government to resolve the situation in which Cuban migrants are still blocked at the Los Planes de Gualac ...
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  21 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Day of prayer and fasting for the country, two more dead during yesterday's strike Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Friday, July 21, the Day of prayer and fasting for liberty, justice and peace in Venezuela, promoted by the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference to ask God to bless the efforts of the Venezuelans. In ...
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  20 July 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Inauguration of a new temple dedicated to the Christ of Esquipulas San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn Mass presided by His Exc. Mgr. Ángel Garachana, Bishop of the diocese of San Pedro Sula, a new temple dedicated to the Christ of Esquipulas was inaugurated. The solemn ritu ...
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  20 July 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mgr. Gualberti after the gunfight: "These deaths must shake our conscience" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "First and foremost, it is urgent to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation to eliminate any possible doubt on what happened. We must also take preventive measures, such as having w ...