America

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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 ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Solidarity Pots": parishes committed to giving food to the hungry Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jesús Martínez, is a priest of San Francisco de Asís parish, in the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto, where there is the "olla solidaria" (literally "solidarity pot"), namely the daily ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A new center in Gaboto where children receive care, food, schooling Puerto Gaboto (Agenzia Fides) - A new reception center for minors, CCI, was opened in the town of Gaboto, in the southeast of the Department of San Jeronimo, Santa Fe province, with the aim of preventing and eradicating ...
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  9 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Continental Meeting of National Directors: analysis of the reality and the functioning of the PMS Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The thirteenth Continental Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of America is taking place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started on March 6, w ...
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  9 March 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presidential ballot: Mgr. Cabrera calls for respect and dialogue Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not enough to win the elections, it is important to know how to rule. This requires certain attitudes such as closeness, listening and service, regardless of our political or religious ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CELAM and the Executive Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences gathered in Bogota Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 7 to 9 March the annual meeting of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council) with the secretaries-general of the 22 countries of Latin America and the Episcopal Conferences Caribbean takes pl ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Trump: no "selective reception" reserved for Christian refugees Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The executive order on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump in late January, and intended to suspend the entry into the United States of refugees from seven countries with a Muslim ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Bastres Florence’s message: "Woman, Star of Chile" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "A society which recognizes itself as modern and democratic must recognize the right of all women in order to allow them to contribute to the public and political life of our country, and to cr ...
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  7 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "People rummaging in the garbage looking for food increases" highlights Mgr. Gutierrez Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Ciudad Bolivar, His Exc. Mgr. Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes, O. de M. complained that every day there are more and more people rummaging in the garbage looking for foo ...