America

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  17 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Danilo Medina wins the election Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Although 44% of seats are to be scrutinized, Danilo Medina, current President of the Dominican Republic, has been declared the winner of the elections. "What has happened is a victory of ...
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  17 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Five suicides concerning young people in 24 hours, "we must do something urgently" says the Bishop Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "What we want to know is why? What is happening to young people? What are the problems that lead to suicide?" asks His Exc. Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, Bishop of Ciudad Juarez. The ...
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  16 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Missionary Congress in Bucaramanga: "Colombian missionary Church goes forth" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the Colombian Church in missionary going forth" is the theme of the XII National Missionary Congress of Colombia to be held in Bucaramanga from 26 to 29 May. The organisers of the congres ...
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  16 May 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A month after the earthquake: religious celebrations while the emergency continues Quito (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the earthquake that has isolated Ecuador's northern coastal area, 120 thousand children are in urgent need of temporary spaces where to attend school lessons. The earthquake on Apr ...
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  16 May 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Thousands of Cubans arrive in El Paso, the Church calls for solidarity El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Cubans, who were arrested earlier in Panama, are arriving in El Paso, Texas, border area in the United States, and now this city is on the verge of collapsing and there are no more ...
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  14 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tense situation, electoral authorities delays for a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro's term Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Venezuela is heading toward a violent confrontation if those who have power do not leave" said His Exc. Mgr. Roberto Luckert Leon, Archbishop of Coro and President of the "Justice and Peace" Co ...
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  14 May 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - The project on "Prevention of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants" begins Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Commission of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference has launched the project "Prevention of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants in Peru: Strengthening of social n ...
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  13 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "Yesterday Aysen, today Chiloé, tomorrow there will be other crises" Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis in the Los Lagos region presents a national project which becomes more and more a discussion topic, because the development of this social system, essentially neoliberal, instead of p ...
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  13 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The crisis worsens, the first attempts to leave the country towards the Netherlands Antilles Willemstad (Agenzia Fides) - Angel Ramirez, President of the Red Cross of Curacao, the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, which is situated in front of Venezuela, said that they are preparing to receive other Ve ...
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  12 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Presidential and legislative elections: may it be a peaceful and democratic day for the Church Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, His Exc. Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, and the Bishop of Puerto Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro, expressed the ho ...
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  12 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops of neighboring dioceses of Colombia and Venezuela: it is urgent to re-open the border Tachira (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal (Venezuela), His Exc. Mgr. Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Cucuta (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr.Victor Manuel Ochoa, me ...
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  11 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "The crisis in Chiloé is not only an economic problem, but social" Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - The demand for fishermen "not to fall into the temptation to sell their conscience for a few thousand pesos that will be only bread for today and misery for tomorrow" is what the Apostolic Vicar ...
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  11 May 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre has been the patroness of the island for a hundred years Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 10 May, the entire Cuban people celebrated the centenary of the proclamation of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre as Patroness of Cuba. Fides received several testimonies from missi ...
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  10 May 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The crisis is first of all political": declaration of the Latin American Redemptorist Missionaries Atyrà (Agenzia Fides) - "The major superiors and representatives of 26 provinces and missions of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer of all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, gathered in the Genera ...
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  10 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - The protests of fishermen after the environmental disaster of Ancud still unanswered Ancud (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Chilean diocese of San Carlos de Ancud, His Exc. Mgr. Juan Maria Florindo Agurto Muñoz, O.S.M. managed to allow a few trucks with fuel and groceries to pass in order to supply t ...