America

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  7 March 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "The poor pay a high price because of corruption", denounces Mgr. Ulloa during the national holiday of the Nazarene Atalaya (Agenzia Fides) - The Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel in Atalaya, 250 km from the city of Panama, was the traditional appointment destination for devotees of Jesus of Nazareth, which every year on March 5 g ...
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  7 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A new project to offer more reception to street children Tuxtepec (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa Hogar Chiria, founded over 20 years ago in the territory of San Bartolo, assists street children and with family issues. In order to welcome these children, this year’s project is ba ...
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  6 March 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Last option for undocumented immigrants: to live in a church Denver (Agenzia Fides) - Testimonies of the situation experienced by undocumented migrants continue to be sent to Fides since Donald Trump’s presidency. Between fear and anxiety, many children no longer attend school ...
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  4 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Mendoza condemns the killing of a journalist: "They want to silence the voice of the people" Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Mgr. Salvador Rangel Mendoza, condemned the murder of the journalist, Cecilio Pineda Birto which took place in Ciudad Altamirano, Tierra C ...
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  3 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Ochoa denounces: "Young people are becoming the protagonists of criminal acts" Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - Drug use, verified by the high percentage of local drug trafficking involving the younger generation, is just one of many realities that worries the Catholic Church of Cucuta: "What one lives her ...
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  3 March 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Calm, prudence and dialogue regarding the Constitution" ask the Bishops Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is going through a worrying situation of political and social conflict. The conflict is exacerbated by the risk of a confrontation and fragmentation of society, caused by the legal ...
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  2 March 2017
  AMERICA - REPAM at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to defend the rights of indigenous peoples Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Rights notified the Pan Amazon Network Ecclesial (REPAM), the convocation of the num.161 ordinary hearing to discuss issues related to th ...
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  2 March 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR -Conclusion of the diocesan phase of the investigation into an alleged miracle attributed to Blessed Oscar Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of El Salvador announced that it has sent the findings of an extensive research to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican, on a "presumed healing" attributed to ...
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  1 March 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Harsh criticism of the Bishops' regarding the electoral campaign Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Honduras (CEH) in a message published on February 27, addressed all the faithful of the Country to offer some considerations on the electoral campaign for the pre ...
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  1 March 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Fraternity Campaign: "Brazilian ecosystems and defense of life" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Fraternity: Brazilian ecosystems and defense of life" is the theme of the Fraternity Campaign (CF) 2017, organized every year by the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB). The "text of the CF 2 ...
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  1 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Children fast for too many days, too weak to go to school Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Scholastic abandonment is one of the consequences of the Venezuelan crisis. It is estimated that between 2005 and 2015, 141,823 primary and secondary school students in the Country abandoned the ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Concern of the Church for the labor crisis in Soriano and in Cologne Mercedes (Agenzia Fides) – As Lent approaches, the priests of the diocese of Mercedes (Urugauy) with the Bishop, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Collazzi, issued a statement expressing "concern and pain" for "the difficult situat ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "EsTuDía": literacy campaign for the children of Antioquia Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The National Ministry of Education has just launched the "EsTuDía" with the goal to seek, in the most remote places of Colombia, children and young people who do not go to school. The initiati ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Clear signs of peace by ELN: the request of the Bishop of Arauca Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Arauca calls for clear signs of peace from ELN (National Liberation Army) in this particular moment: last week, this guerrilla group attacked police stations and stol ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Family conflicts: fertile ground for violence in schools Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - Violence and family conflicts, stress and lack of food, are breeding grounds for children who attend school and listlessly increasingly become aggressive towards other classmates. The alarm was l ...