America

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  7 June 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US House of Representatives approves law on intervention in favor of religious minorities persecuted in Syria and Iraq Washington (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, June 6, 2017, the United States House of Representatives unanimously voted Law 390, Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief Accountability Act of 2017, which authorizes among oth ...
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  7 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The diocese of Cucuta opens a transit home for Venezuelans seeking food and medicine Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - A new transit home, significantly called "Divine Providence" was inaugurated on June 5 in the Colombian diocese of Cucuta, to help Venezuelans affected by the severe social, economic and politica ...
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  7 June 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Campaign to eradicate the phenomenon of child labor Huamanga (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor continues to spread in the urban area of Huamanga, Peruvian province of the Ayacucho region, where 520 children work on the streets of the city every day. In order ...
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  6 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Presidency of the Episcopal Conference in Rome to meet Pope Francis Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, June 8, the Presidency of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) will be in Rome to meet with the Pope in the Vatican. "The meeting intends to discuss with him the dire situation ...
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  6 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An indigenous candidate running for presidential elections Tuxpan (Agenzia Fides) - An indigenous woman is running for presidential elections in 2018. The voting that has just been held in Mexico among the delegates of the National Congress of Indigenous People (Inc), a party wh ...
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  6 June 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A new reception center for vulnerable children Quito (Agenzia Fides) - A new "Guagua Center", a Child Development Community Center, was inaugurated on the occasion of the recent Child Day. El Arbolito, is the name of the home that will welcome 150 vulnerable childr ...
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  5 June 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Child labor: 64% of cases are concentrated in the agricultural sector Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Of the over 23,000 child workers surveyed in the Panama Republic, 64% are engaged in agricultural activities. For this reason, the Ministry of Labor and Development this year has focused its camp ...
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  5 June 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Thursday, June 8th at 1pm: "One minute for peace in the world" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The National Justice and Peace Commission, the Argentine Catholic Action, together with the Department of Laity, the Episcopal Commission for Ecumenism, Relations with Judaism, Islam and th ...
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  2 June 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops' "Serious concern" for President Trump's decision on the Paris Agreement Washington (Agenzia Fides) - President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday that the United States will not honor the Paris agreement on climate change. The United States and China, the two largest carbon emitters, and 19 ...
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  2 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Mining activity yes, but not like this and not here": Mgr. Londoño Buitrago and the community of Antioquia defend the territory Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Jericho, Mgr. Noel Antonio Londoño Buitrago, C.SS.R., joined the voices of protest of farmers, breeders and civil leaders of the municipalities of Pueblorrico, Ta ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Dramatic situation, children and sick people die Maturín (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the Country is dramatic, there is no food and people have reached the limit of tolerance". This is what His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Pérez Lavado, Bishop of the diocese of Maturín, ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Soldiers and sailors, anonymous heroes who give hope to citizens scared by violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Mexico is aware of the fact that at the moment our country is experiencing a crisis, where crime impoverishes the nation, because of criminal organizations that have expanded ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Trafficking, sexual abuse and early marriages: girls are the main victims Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - In northern Mexico, 3 out of four children, victims of sexual exploitation, are forced to marry early, most of them less than 16 years of age. The complaint comes from a study carried out by a g ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas Campaign in view of the annual collection: poor people always on the rise Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Argentina is carrying out a national campaign in view of its annual collection for the needy, inviting to express solidarity through a concrete gesture that effectively helps transf ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops close to the suffering and uncertainty of Venezuelans Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "In these difficult moments of the life of Venezuelan people, we are not alien to the suffering and uncertainty that Venezuelans live", writes the President of the Cuban episcopal Conference His ...