America

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  6 September 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - A big feast on the Andes for "the Saint of the suburbs" Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - Even thousands of kilometers from Rome, on Sunday, September 4, the day when Mother Teresa was proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in the Vatican, a big feast was celebrated in Cuzco, Peru. Before ...
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  6 September 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA- Mgr. Lozano on drug plan: "dialogue is not a sign of weakness but of strength and generosity" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Lozano, former Bishop of the Diocese of Gualeguaychú, has been the focus of media attention this week for two different reasons: the Pope named him Archbishop coadjutor wit ...
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  5 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Week for Peace in Cali: "From dialogues to reconciliation agreements" Cali (Agenzia Fides) – In the context of the 29th edition of the "Week for Peace" which is celebrated in Colombia from 4 to 11 September (see Fides 01/09/2016), the Archdiocese of Cali, led by its Archbishop, His Exc. ...
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  5 September 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 18,000 pray for the family and migrants Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - From Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), 15 Bishops of the dioceses of the border area between the United States and Mexico, attended the celebration for the defense of the family and migrants. Accord ...
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  5 September 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Missionary among young alcoholics in the Amazon rainforest La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Giovanni Forasacco was 54 years old when he left Italy to be a missionary in Bolivia. He had joined the Pope John XXIII Community, founded by Don Oreste Benzi, and here matured the decision to go ...
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  2 September 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A "Committee for Peace" to stop violence in Oruro Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - The Departmental Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Oruro, along with the Bishop of the Diocese of Oruro, His Exc. Mgr. Krzysztof Bialasik Wawrowska, SVD, announced the formation of a Committee ...
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  1 September 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Let us take care of the earth, let us take care of life" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us take care of the earth, let us take care of life" is the theme of the annual campaign sponsored by Catholic Action Argentina (ACA), which starts today, September 1, 2016, second Wor ...
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  1 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week for Peace: let us reconcile, meet and rebuild Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 4 to 11 September the 29th edition of the "Week for Peace" will be held in Colombia and the main objective will be to reflect on the urgent need to "reconcile, meet and rebuild relationships ...
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  31 August 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Demonstration on 1 September: for the Bishops it is a right to be respected Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On September 1 a demonstration has been announced with a march and other political activities, in order to promote a collection of signatures for the referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. ...
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  31 August 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "With everyone's help, we will re-build the school": after the earthquake students in bamboo classrooms Playa Prieta (Agenzia Fides) - "We want our school, we do not want to go and study in another school, or stop studying, or skip a year": these are the students' demands of the school run by the Siervas del Hogar de la Ma ...
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  30 August 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous Peoples, subject of the New Evangelization Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Open a space for reflection and dialogue in order to unite the efforts that are being made at the service of indigenous peoples so that they become "subjects of the New Evangelization": this ...
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  30 August 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Scalabrinians: more effective responses to global mass migration Jundial (Agenzia Fides) - Since yesterday until Saturday, September 3, forty Scalabrinian Missionaries (Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo) engaged in the reception of migrants and refugees in ...
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  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionaries of Charity attacked at home, desecrated the tabernacle Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Sisters of Charity living in Mar del Plata, were attacked and beaten in their home. Criminals also desecrated the tabernacle of the chapel and managed to steal 50 pesos, all ...
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  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "We cannot irresponsibly give in to the perverse logic of violence" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We, Bishops of Bolivia, raise our voice of pain, indignation and denunciation regarding the spiral of violence that engulfs our country in this period and has already caused the deaths of at ...
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  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Two Sisters killed: women of faith, at the service of the poor Durant (Agenzia Fides) - Two nuns, Sisters Margaret Held, of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN), and Sister Paula Merrill, of the School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF), were killed with knives in their home in Duran ...