America

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  24 June 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "A historic event, the first step to building peace" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Colombia recognizes the definitive agreement of Peace between the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as "a historic event for t ...
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  23 June 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Mgr. Medina: "Justice must only acknowledge the truth of the Curuguaty massacre", Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones (Paraguay), His Exc. Mgr. Mario Melanio Medina Salinas, accused Vice President Federico Franco of being responsible for the "massacre of Curuguat ...
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  23 June 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meetings for the prevention, recovery and promotion of life against addiction Mendoza (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the International Day of fight against the use and illicit traffic of drugs, the Archbishop of Mendoza, through the Pastoral against Addictions, Hogar de Cristo, and the desir ...
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  23 June 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Castro: "We need a clear sign that the signature of the agreement is concrete" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a clear sign that the signature of the agreement is not just a symbolic act", said His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Archbishop of Tunja and President of the Episcopal Conferenc ...
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  22 June 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Salah Zuleta: "A true politician seeks the common good" Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to the politicians of the department of La Guajira, so that in these times of crisis they unite and propose a single candidate for the upcoming elections, after the cancellation of ...
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  22 June 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Olympics: religious women active in the fight against human trafficking Rome (Agenzia Fides) – As the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro approach August 5, there is growing commitment against trafficking in persons in all its forms. Once again, the Olympics become a time of economic growth fo ...
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  21 June 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - One among thousands of Haitian immigrants carried the Olympic torch Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Five years after leaving Haiti and beginning a new life in northern Brazil, Abdias Dolce carried the Olympic Torch through the streets of Manaus on Sunday, June 19, thus representing, as he said, ...
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  21 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of untold numbers of Venezuelans, and there are chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenou ...
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  21 June 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - After 6 dead in Oaxaca, the teachers protest does not stop, the Church calls for dialogue Tehuantepec (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Tehuantepec, His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Armando Campos Contreras, called for dialogue "in search of justice to help overcome many social delays in the life of our people". The stateme ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Verification for the November ballot begins Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, called on citizens with the right to vote in the upcoming elections in November, to see if their names appear on the electoral roll. According to ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The worst forms of clandestine child labor registered in Latin America Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala, with 850 thousand 937 child laborers and 43% of children who do not attend school, has the highest rate of child labor in Latin America, according to information sent to Fides. ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The first concern of the Church is peace", recalls the Apostolic Nuncio Guanare (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Aldo Giordano, stressed that it is the duty of the Church to seek dialogue in the country, a dialogue for peace and to meet the needs of the popu ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - A project to strengthen the fight against child labor Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor in the agricultural sector continues to be one of the emergencies in the Country. Thanks to an initiative promoted by the local Labor Ministry, the Project "Semilla" h ...
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  18 June 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church's response to the scourge of drugs, reflection at the National Eucharistic Congress Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - The area of Social Pastoral and Lay people, one of the thirteen that has divided the work of the XI National Eucharistic Congress which takes place in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman (Argentin ...
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  18 June 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Violence in the Mapuche region: church burned and attack on police Araucania (Agenzia Fides) – At dawn on Friday 17 a fire destroyed a church located in the town of Collipulli in the Araucania region. The facts reported to Fides are very serious because there was a firefight in the ar ...