America

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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Diocese denounces: Another priest attacked by an armed group Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "On the evening of March 16 alleged members of the police force in Coahuila, violently broke into the home of Father Robert Coogan Francis, Head of the Prison Ministry in the diocese, and after ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Day of Prayer and national fund for flood victims Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all witnesses of the harsh reality that thousands of Peruvians who have lost everything are living", say the Bishops of Peru following a major emergency that the country is experiencing due ...
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  18 March 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuba offers 1,000 medical scholarships to Colombia peace process Havana (Agenzia Fides) – Two days ago Colombia's Cuban ambassador, Jose Luis Ponce, informed that Cuba has awarded 1,000 scholarships to members of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and vic ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Jesuit missions unite Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay once again Misiones (Agenzia Fides) - In a bilateral meeting between leaders of the state governments of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Misiones (Argentina), a commitment to return to the path that links 30 historical Jesuit missio ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico-US Border: the Pro-Migrants commission in 18 dioceses already operational Naucalpan (Agenzia Fides) - Eighteen dioceses of the border, in Mexico and the United States, have established commissions for legal advice to migrants in danger of being deported or in transit to the United States. The ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Haitian children integrated in Mexican border schools Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - A group of seven minor Haitians has been integrated into the educational system of Baja California. This is what the coordinator of the Binational Migrant Education Programme said in a note sent ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The art to combat violence that children in poor neighborhoods live Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Many children from the slums of Venezuela are suffering from insecurity, conflict and economic hardship, aggravated by inflation that plagues the Country. They live in crowded houses, perched on ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: Justice for the 40 girls who died in the Guatemalan fire Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The tragedy at the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción reception center was not a simple accident, but the tragic end of an irregular situation that had been denounced so many times", said the ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Meeting of Bishops and leaders of the Indigenous Pastoral of the Southern Cone Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile will be present to share their experiences and pastoral plans from 15 to 17 March, in Santiago, Chile. The meeting aims to share ex ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA - The unexpected intensity of the rains cause deaths and displaced people in Ecuador and Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The intense rains in recent weeks in various regions of Ecuador and Peru continue to cause damage to people, animals, crops and infrastructure. In Ecuador, during the rainy season, known as the equ ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violence against children and adolescents increased in 2016 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In the annual analysis of the report Somos Noticia, relative to 2016, the NGO Centro Comunitario de Aprendizaje (Cecodap), highlighted alarming results. In the note sent to Fides, the general co ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Already 200 murders in 2017 in Tijuana: Mgr. Moreno calls for a plan to stop violence Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence in Tijuana does not stop, rather it increases every day and seems it afflicts insecurity throughout the country. The authorities in Baja California Nord have to face this sad reality", ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The threats of drug traffickers force the transfer of a priest Moreno (Agenzia Fides) - With a letter signed by the Bishop of the diocese of Merlo-Moreno, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Carlos Maletti, was informed that Fr. Eduardo Farrell will be transferred from Sagrado Corazon parish, du ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops condemn the bill that allows abortion even in cases of poverty La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference is contrary to Parliament’s draft law laying down various causes that justify abortion, including poverty. "The proposal distorts the criminal justice system, ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Denunciation of the Bishop of Quilmes after attempting to set fire to a church Quilmes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Quilmes, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, His Exc. Mgr. José Carlos Tissera, informed that on March 10, after the evening Mass, the faithful had just left ...