America

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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Christmas between consumerism and street children Oaxaca City (Agenzia Fides) - For street children there is no "Christmas dinner", no gifts. They live marginalized, in the cold, under bridges, they have no family and are exploited. Unlike many children who spend these ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Violence, drugs and weapons: Christian churches concerned for the murders and social ills Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a lot of anger in the country along with an excessive amount of drugs and weapons which are easily available": This is the concern of the Archbishop of Port of Spain, His Exc. Mg ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - To live the holidays with faith means to fight against child labor Salvador de Bahía (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Salvador, through the Pastoral of Tourism (Pastur), has launched the project "Verano con Fe" (Summer with Faith), which involves the realization of different activi ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Cucuta: "To provide humanitarian aid to Venezuelans in difficulty" Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Cucuta in Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid, urged the state authorities to provide humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan people, remembering that Ven ...
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  22 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fun activity campaign to remove child workers from the road Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - For the entire month of December a series of activities that provide fun initiatives against child labor, with the objective of removing children from the street, was carried out in Bogota. Accor ...
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  22 December 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - New version of the website of the Church of Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In order to continue to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and spread the pastoral action of the pilgrim Church on the largest island of the Antilles, a new website of the Conference of Catho ...
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  21 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Solidarity of the Diocese of Cuautitlan for the fireworks market explosion Tultepec (Agenzia Fides) - "We join all market workers of San Pablito in Tultepec in this tragedy", writes the Bishop of Cuautitlan, His Exc. Mgr. Guillermo Ortiz Mondragón, expressing solidarity with the victims of the ...
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  21 December 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drugs among the new forms of poverty to be addressed urgently Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to help those who have fallen to get up and prevent others who are vulnerable to fall ... We will never be able to replace families, but as a Church, we are the family of God, and ...
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  20 December 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "A Doctor at home" initiative in favor of the most vulnerable Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The health initiatives in Mexico City, called "Médico en tu casa" and "Cunas CDMX", were presented to the Ministry of Health (Minsa) authorities of Panama that wants to put them in place i ...
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  20 December 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Central American migrants "seek accommodation" together with the Bishops El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 30 Central American migrants were special guests of the "Posada Sin Fronteras", which was organized by the Diocese of El Paso (Texas) and Las Cruces (New Mexico), last weekend. To lo ...
• 20 December 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 December 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas (Peru), by His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde ...
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  20 December 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The solution is not barbarism": the Archbishop of Ciudad Bolivar after the violence and ransacking Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly believe that the solution is not barbarism, acts of vandalism and irrationality. We can solve our conflicts in a civilized, peaceful and democratic framework. Violence is the ...
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  19 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Threats to the Archbishop of Cali, but "Colombia must overcome this stage" responds Mgr. Monsalve Mejia Cali (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia, Archbishop of Cali, talking to some media operators, reported that last Friday, December 16, strangers delivered leaflets to the Archbishop's house, in ...
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  19 December 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The measures taken have worsened the crisis, the Bishops call on politicians to listen to people Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) issued a message addressed to the authorities of Venezuela on recent economic measures imposed. With regard to the new measures, the Bishops denounce: " ...
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  17 December 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez: "To change the culture of power for the power of culture" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "To change the culture of power for the power of culture": this is how we can summarize the message of the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio José Báez Ortega, in his speech at the Human Righ ...