America

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  17 February 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Caritas monitors malnourished children Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas, together with organizations such as Médicos Unidos and Radar de los Barrios, has recently promoted a day of monitoring in the western area of Caracas during which assistance to 56 chil ...
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  17 February 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Meeting of Bishops on the situation of the country: the rights of farmers are not respected Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) will meet in Assembly on Monday, February 20, to evaluate and reflect on its program for the year 2017. About a year ago (see Fides 14/03/2016) the Bi ...
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  16 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Mexico without child labor": only 14 companies out of 4000 respect this trademark Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - According to information distributed by the Secretariat of Labor and Social Security, in Zacatecas, there are about 49 thousand 300 child workers under 15 years of age. According to statistics ...
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  16 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Cordoba comments the new law: "Donating an organ does not contradict the Catholic doctrine, but we must be vigilant" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Law n. 1805, passed by Congress last August and recently ratified, establishes organ donation in Colombia as mandatory. "There is nothing wrong in it" said His Exc. Mgr. Juan Vicente Cordoba Vill ...
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  16 February 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Pataz, one of the poorest provinces in the Country Tayabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The province of Pataz is one of the poorest in Peru, situated in the region of La Libertad. According to an estimate by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, 11 districts out of 13 in Pataz fal ...
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  16 February 2017
  AMERICA/STATI UNITI - Aumenta la solidarietà con i popoli indigeni, denuncia dei lavori di Keystone e Dakota AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Solidarity with the indegenous peoples increases: Franciscans condemn President’s executive order advancing the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan ...
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  15 February 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops meeting at the border: "It is necessary to adopt government policies which respect the basic human rights of migrants" Brownsville (Agenzia Fides) - "Over the years we have seen the pain caused by a broken immigration system, by structural policies and economic conditions, that generate threats, deportations, impunity and extreme violenc ...
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  15 February 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The children of the peninsula of La Guajira forced to leave school in order to survive with the sale of fuel Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - In the Venezuelan peninsula of La Guajira smuggling fuel is an alternative for survival that in particular sees children involved. From 8 in the morning thousands of young children start to wo ...
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  14 February 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The meeting of the National Indigenous and Missionaries show interest in Arco Minero Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Seven years after the last meeting between the indigenous population and missionaries working in Venezuela, the Department of Missions of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela, in collaboration ...
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  14 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico closed between two walls Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mexican public opinion remains divided on the construction of the "Trump wall" in the north with the United States, but begins to wonder about the wall that Mexico continues to strengthen al ...
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  14 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Wayuu denounce a state of neglect as the cause of death regarding malnourished children La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the precautionary measures taken by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Wayuu indigenous people continue to suffer from malnutrition. The complaint comes from t ...
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  13 February 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Catholic Church breaks ties with the Scout Association of the country La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Argentina has broken its ties with the Scout Association of the country due to recent changes in its educational project concerning the concept of family, and issues such ...
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  13 February 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence in the rural area increases, yesterday the memory of Dorothy Stang’s testimony Anapu (Agenzia Fides) - Families of farmers from Anapu in the south of Pará (Brazil), yesterday February 12 gathered to commemorate the death of Sister Dorothy Stang which happened 12 years ago. The nun was killed becau ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - New challenge for the Pastoral Care of Prisons: what happens after having found freedom? Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Organized by the Pastoral Care of Prisons, on 3 and 4 February the retreat of prison chaplains in the Convent of San Alfonso, in Villa Allende, Cordoba was held. 22 chaplains from all over the c ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time a feast of Candlemas for the poor Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The program of celebrations in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Candlemas of Puno, in southern Peru, on the border with Bolivia, on Wednesday, February 8, the Bishop of the diocese, His Exc. Mgr. ...