America

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  10 January 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migration Week: solidarity and recognition of immigrants' contribution Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "This National Migration Week is an opportunity to embrace the important work of continuing to secure the border, to welcome the stranger and serve the most vulnerable - all components of a h ...
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  10 January 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The National Assembly declares "the abandonment of office" on behalf of the President Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela, where the majority of Parliament's MPs belong to the opposition, yesterday declared "the abandonment of office" on behalf of the President of Venezuela, ...
• 10 January 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 8, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Ricardo Eduardo Garcia Loor, of the archdiocesan clergy of Puerto ...
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  9 January 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The situation in prisons: a time bomb that could explode at any time Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - "Talking about prisons means talking about a factory of torture, which produces violence and creates monsters. It is a stressful environment and barbarism is constant," says Father Valdir João S ...
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  9 January 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Still no news after the disappearance of Father Joaquin Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) – There is still no news of the priest who went missing last week in Mexico: the diocese of Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexico), informs in a statement that the priest, Joaquin Hernandez Sifuentes has ...
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  29 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace process continues: the measure for amnesty approved Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian parliament approved yesterday, Wednesday, 28 December, a bill for the amnesty of the FARC members (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces). This is not however a general amnesty, sin ...
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  29 December 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Work for Araucania go ahead despite the arson attacks on churches Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "The work of all, facilitated by Mgr. Vargas, is allowing in a framework of respect and dialogue, to build future plans for Araucanía, so everyone can have rights and opportunities", said Chilea ...
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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 ...