America

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  13 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Urgent Message of the Bishops to Catholics and people of good will Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference held in Caracas from 7 to 12 July (see Fides 07/07/2017; 11/07/2017), the Bishops issued an "Urgent message ...
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  12 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The diocese of Copiapó informs foreign workers of their rights Copiapó (Agenzia Fides) - The Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe House of Migrant in Copiapó hosted a conference on the rights of foreign workers residing in the Chilean region of Atacama, promoted by the Pastoral Ministry f ...
• 12 July 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Mgr. Byron Heralda Chevannes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 24, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of Mgr. Byron Heralda Chevannes, of the diocese of Ju ...
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  12 July 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 60 percent of young people are poor: "We are all responsible", says Mgr. Martin Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - If 58.7 percent of young people under the age of 18 are poor, "it is clear that this is a sign of something that could not be solved". "We all are responsible, in one way or another, although we ...
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  11 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - About 869,000 children work during the night recycling materials of all kinds Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor exploitation in Colombia is punishable: from 3 to 7 years in prison. According to the police which deals with the country's childhood and adolescent, about 869,000 children work ...
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  11 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Letter to President Maduro from the Bishops gathered in Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – In order to resolve the serious food and drug crisis, and the insecurity that is causing innumerable victims throughout the country, it is urgent: "To recognize the autonomy of all public powe ...
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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Mgr. Paz denounces: "Mining activity leaves only contaminated water and fields" Palo Quemado (Agenzia Fides) - "Farmers in Palo Quemado have to face the environmental impact caused by mining activity in the area, especially water and contaminated fields", denounces Mgr. Geovanni Mauricio Paz Hurtado ...
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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Another peasant killed for land conflict, a national policy is lacking Parà (Agenzia Fides) - Just over a month after the massacre of 10 peasants in Pau D'arco, in the Brazilian state of Para (see Fides 26/05/2017), another rural worker was killed in the same region. On Friday, July 7 Rose ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest brutally killed in his parish Nezahualcóyotl (Agenzia Fides) - "With great pain and dismay we inform of the death of our diocesan priest Luis Lopez Villa, 71, who on July 5 was killed by criminals who managed to break into San Isidro Labrador Parish ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: to support the people of God in these difficult moments Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From July 7 to 12, the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), attended by 50 Bishops from the 45 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, will be held in Carac ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Indigenous delegations to the Ministry of Justice: We are experiencing great difficulties Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 July, the delegations of the Pataxó, Tupinambá and Kaingang peoples submitted requests to the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, to the Federal Senate Commission for Human Rights and to th ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children in the State of Chihuahua begin to use drugs at the age of 10 Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - Drug use in the state of Chihuahua starts at 10 years of age. The complaint comes from the PCE State Center for Toxicology, of the Mexican State, which is the first in the Country where alarmi ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - On Independence Day, assault against Parliament Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A day of tension was experienced yesterday in Venezuela: on the one hand the celebration of the 206th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Independence, on the other the violence in parliame ...
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  5 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Cardinal Tobin: "We, American Catholics are a Church of Migrants" Orlando (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the closing of the largest meeting of North American Catholics in Orlando, in the United States of America, which gathered more than 3,000 people, the Archbishop of Newark (New ...
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  5 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Padron: "Human rights must be respected in Venezuela"; another young man dies in the clashes Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), Archbishop of Cumaná, Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sanchez, recalled that the social and political crisis in his country is "very serio ...