America

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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Another evangelical church is torched Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the diocese of Temuco, Héctor Vargas has firmly condemned the latest act of torching of yet another Evangelical church building in the district of Ercilla, yesterday. The gover ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop Valenzuela insists on dialogue, 18 April peace talks third session Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 10 April Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid S.D.B., of Asunción, called on parties opposed to plans for presidential re-election, to reflect and participate in the Dialo ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Franciscan brother murdered, food provisions for old people and disabled children stolen Aragua (Agenzia Fides) –Franciscan Brother Diego Bedoya, a member of Hermanos Franciscanos de la Cruz Blanca (White Cross Franciscan Brothers) who runs Casa Hogar in the town of La Victoria, Aragua state of Venezuela, ...
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  10 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - At the heart of the Peruvian forest prayers are offered for the victims of terrorism in Egypt Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community in Iquitos, a town at the heart of Peru’s Amazon forest, offered special prayers during yesterday’s Palm Sunday mass for a political and social solution to be foun ...
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  10 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “We must defend our rights but without using violence” says Cardinal Urosa Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – "We must keep calm, acting in a rational manner, seeking the understanding of others. We have said this in many recent messages issued by our Bishops’ Conference: we must defend our rights a ...
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  7 April 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Letter of the Bishop of Posadas: "Christian hope must make us responsible in defending our rights" Posadas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Posadas, His Exc. Mgr. Juan Rubén Martínez, in preparation for the celebrations of Holy Week, published a letter in which he writes that "it would be hypocritical ...
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  7 April 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Migrants: those repatriated from the US are 30 percent more compared to 2016 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - More than five thousand Hondurans have been deported from the US, this figure exceeds the number of returnees in the first quarter of 2016. In the note sent by Fides Digital press service of ...
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  7 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - After Easter the children of Mocoa will go back to school Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - While the number of deaths due to the landslide that hit Mocoa (see Fides 3 and 06/04/2017) continues to increase, the Government is doing its best in allowing more than 12 thousand children to r ...
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  6 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Church in the dialogue process: abandon the request of the re-election of the President San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Pedro, His Exc. Mgr. Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp. informed that the Permanent Council of the Bishops' Conference of Paraguay (CEP) consid ...
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  6 April 2017
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "Road Project" for thousands of street children and adolescents Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - In Montevideo, Paysandú, Maldonado, Salto and Durazno "Road Project" takes care of 1,088 children. The project includes a "kids club", as well as 90 youth centers that assist 7,000 adolescen ...
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  6 April 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops on the election results: "Transparency, never violence, peace is in danger" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "Ecuador is going through difficult times, which threaten the unity of our country. Peace is indeed in danger!" says the statement of the Bishops' Conference sent to Fides. The text continues: "In ...
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  6 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Landslide in Mocoa: Nuncio celebrates Mass for the victims, aid from the Bishops' Conference Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to figures of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia, the number of confirmed deaths caused by the mudslide that flooded the town of Mocoa, in the so ...
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  5 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The help of the Catholic Church to those fleeing from Venezuela Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - The recent events and political developments that are taking place in Venezuela (see Fides 1 and 3/04/2017) have increased the arrival of Venezuelans in Colombia, in search of better opportunitie ...
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  5 April 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops call to vote and ask candidates to avoid "foul play" Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops that make up the ecclesiastical province of Xalapa have invited the candidates of the 212 places in the region to avoid "foul play", unfounded attacks or lack of respect during the el ...
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  4 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishop of Caacupé on the situation: "The authorities that govern us are the real culprits" Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Caacupé, His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Giménez Medina, said that "many are guilty of what happened, usually those who exercise authority, but especially those who lead th ...