America

• 3 May 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 3 March 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Mauricio Silva Jardim, of the Archdiocesan clergy of Porto Alegre, as ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Robles Ortega: Authorities must monitor the security of citizens Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - After numerous attempts of theft, which took place recently and made public through social networks, and after the written messages on walls in at least two neighborhoods in Tonala and Zapop ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence and child labor, the great threats to children Cali (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal for the protection of children's rights was launched by local authorities during the Childhood Day, just celebrated in Colombia. Violence, child labor and sexual abuse are the scourges th ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 90% of Mexican children are involved in hazardous work activities Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the 2015 results of the Child Labor Office (MIT) of the National Research on Employment carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), about 2.48 mil ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Still clashes, Maduro announces a Constituent Assembly, guarantees for an intervention from the Holy See Rome (Agenzia Fides) - " There is no stop to the arrival of dramatic news about the situation in Venezuela and the aggravation of the clashes with many dead, wounded and detained. As I unite myself to the pain of the fam ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/EQUADOR - A missionary bishop to head the Bishops’ Conference Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ecuador (CEE) has chosen as its new chairman Bishop Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C.I., of the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas. He takes the place ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - 8th Pan-Amazon Social Forum FOSPA opens today 28 April Tarapoto (Agenzia Fides) – The 8th Pan-Amazon Social Forum FOSPA opens today 28 April in Tarapoto, Peru. FOSPA is a privileged forum in which to present proposals and alternatives promoted in the Pan-Amazon civil soci ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops’ Assembly: prayers for Venezuela and preparations for next visit Ad Limina Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – A solemn concelebration of mass presided by Archbishop Oscar Aparicio of Cochabamba, also vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bolivia (CEB), yesterday, 27 April opened t ...
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  27 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “There must be pressure to reach a democratic solution ” says Bishop Pérez Lavado Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – "There must be a peaceful solution, elections, but to reach this goal there is need of pressure at very high levels, perhaps extreme, in order to find a democratic solution, which is what e ...
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  27 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Vatican is ready to help, only “when the conditions exist for effective and genuine dialogue to resolve the difficulties” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See is following carefully the delicate situation in Venezuela and is ready to help if and when there are real conditions for effective dialogue and not for a " political show". This ...
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  27 April 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishop Espinal: “Corruption feeds social inequality and can destabilise the government ” San Fernando de Montecristi (Agenzia Fides) – Demonstrations by a social movement of protest against the incompetence of the authorities cannot destabilise a government, the only thing which can endanger the stability ...
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  26 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Abuse and violence on minors: no decrease in cases involving even newborn babies Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – According to official figures, in Colombia an act of sexual abuse is reported every 120 minutes. Of every ten cases, seven of the victims are children. In 80% of the cases reported, the aggre ...
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  26 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops urge people to join national strike “to defend rights acquired, and defend the life and dignity of every person” Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) –Bishop Francesco Biasin of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, has urged the people of his diocese to join the general strike called by unions for 28 April. "I urge you all to take part, to make ...
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  26 April 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Start bankruptcy process to save the country : religious leaders demand San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – "We confirm our encouragement and our support to the government of Puerto Rico and the Supervising Committee, to authorise a process of Title III bankruptcy before 28 April, when legal debt ...
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  25 April 2017
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - Like his recent predecessors President Trump avoids the term Armenian Genocide Washington – (Agenzia Fides) – American President Donald Trump, on Monday 24 April, issued an official statement on the planned massacre 102 years ago of Armenians in the Anatolian Peninsula, but avoided referring to ...