America

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  17 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuelan Bishops gathered in an extraordinary Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The difficult situation in the country and in various contexts marked by the difficulties experienced by Venezuela have imposed the convocation of the 43rd Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA - CELAM's Socio-Pastoral Observatory to build the "geopolitics of hope" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - One of the purposes of the XXXVI Ordinary Assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) just completed in San Salvador (see Fides 13/05/2017) was to carry out an assessment of the work ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest stabbed in the cathedral immediately after Mass Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Miguel Angel Machorro, who had just finished celebrating Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico D.F. was stabbed three times on the altar by a thirty-year-old man. According to w ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Help for children and families affected by the mud avalanche in Mocoa Mocoa (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages International is at the forefront of the populations affected by the mud avalanche that hit the Colombian town of Mocoa on April 1st and caused the death of over 350 people ...
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  15 May 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican missionary denounces the situation of peasants El Seibo (Agenzia Fides) - "If the 'Central Romana' (agro-industrial company) dared to destroy the homes of 80 families in January 2016 at 3 o'clock in the night, without an order from the State Attorney, then stole thei ...
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  15 May 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mary, protagonist of the 2019 WYD logo created by a young Panamanian Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Ambar Calvo, a a 20-year-old student of architecture at the University of Panama, was the winner of the competition for the next World Youth Day logo (WYD), to be held in Panama from 22 to Januar ...
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  15 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi: "Do not spend money for political campaigns but for the needs of communities" San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to spend so much money in political campaigns, but has to be destined to the needs of communities, like communications in Chiapas": asks the Bishop of the Di ...
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  13 May 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - CELAM Assembly: "We asked Mgr. Romero for his intercession" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central American Bishops have been meeting for 75 years to analyze social, economic and political situations, and above all to share the aspects of their ministry. Together we faced ou ...
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  12 May 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholic institutions called to enhance agro-ecological production Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – During a meeting held yesterday, May 11, the Episcopal Commission for the Service of Charity, Justice and Peace, chaired by Mgr. Guilherme Werlang, Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil), brought forward ...
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  12 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A meeting of Bishops in Reynosa suspended for security reasons Tampico (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of insecurity affecting the whole Mexican region of Tamaulipas has forced the suspension of a meeting to be held in the border town of Reynosa, which should have been attended by repre ...
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  12 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The drama of little girl brides Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, hundreds of thousands of girls are forced to marry with far older men than them. This is what emerges from the Investigaciò en Salud y Demografia (Insad) report, where it is esti ...
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  11 May 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Jesuits return the lands of the Rosebud Indian Reservation to the Sioux Dakota (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits are returning more than 500 hectares of land to the Rosebud Indian Reservation (RIR), the Sioux Indian reserve in South Dakota. The operation should be completed at the end of May. ...
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  11 May 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 25% of children are born from teenage mothers, 19 year old women already have two children Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala records one of the highest pregnancy rates among teenagers in Latin America, and this leads to bringing girls on the path of poverty instead of studying and finding a decent job ...
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  11 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Latin American Bishops denounce: "The responsibility for the disaster in Venezuela is Maduro" Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - "Venezuela is experiencing a humanitarian crisis, the government is barking up the wrong tree with the proposal of the Constituent Assembly rejected by all citizens", said Mgr. Cástor Oswaldo ...
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  10 May 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - CELAM creates a commission to study the situation in Venezuela San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Juan Espinoza, auxiliary Bishop of Morelia (Mexico) and Secretary General of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) at the beginning of the XXXVI Ordinary General Assembly of CE ...