America

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  22 March 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Mgr. Ramazzini: the country is economically dependent on remittances from workers in the US Bern (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, His Exc. Mgr. Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri, participated in a panel discussion at the European Parliament in Brussels, which has launched a study on ...
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  22 March 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Towards CAM V 2018: the missionary Cross arrives in El Salvador Cara Sucia (Agenzia Fides) - El Salvador has welcomed the missionary Cross, the relics of the Blessed Nazaria Ignacia and of Oscar Romero Beato from Guatemala, that will travel the country in preparation for the V Americ ...
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  22 March 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 2 and a half million child laborers Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent research published by the Abrinq Foundation, an NGO which promotes the defense of the rights of children and adolescents, reports that in 2015, 2 million and 600,000 ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi: "Lay down weapons once and for all" San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - After Mass on Sunday, March 19, the Bishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, called for a definitive solution to the conflict in the area ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "It is impossible to live here": says Mgr. Garcia on the violence in Upper Baudo Chocó (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence in Upper Baudo does not stop. The communities along the Baudo and San Juan rivers are living a serious humanitarian crisis, and many have begun to flee", said His Exc. Mgr. Julio Hernan ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Over 12,000 poor children in Bariloche Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - A group of social organizations of the Movement for Children of Bariloche, a town in northwestern Patagonia in the foothills of the Andes, has issued a statement expressing their opposition to ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Children are likely to lose a school year due to teachers' strikes San Juan de la Maguana (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, His Exc. Mgr. José Dolores Grullon Estrella, warned that if teachers' strikes continue, this school year in the provinces of ...
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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 ...