America

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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 ...
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  17 June 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Strong condemnation of the murderous violence Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Asunción, His Exc. Mgr. Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid, S.D.B., in a brief interview to a local radio station, spoke of the murder of the businessman and alleged drug tr ...
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  17 June 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Religious leaders call for the approval of new laws to save Puerto Rico San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders of Puerto Rico and the United States met yesterday, and meetings also continue today, with US Senators to urge them to support the legislation of the debt restructuring of Pue ...
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  16 June 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Senior citizens aware of their rights: a six-meter high mural to call attention Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - On the World Day of Awareness on the abuse of the elderly, the Social Pastoral Vicariate Caritas of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, yesterday met about 50 elderly people who suffered some ...
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  16 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The President of magistrates accuses the Church of "playing politics" Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Among the first reactions to the statement from the Bishops' Conference, calling for transparent elections and the presence of international observers (see Fides 15/06/2016), Sandinista judge ...
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  16 June 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Guajira: hunger, thirst, poverty, lack of education Riohacha (Agenzia Fides) - Guajira is the Colombian department with the highest index of poverty. There is no water and food and there are many unmet basic needs. Children are those who suffer most, who unfortunately die ...
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  15 June 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Campaign 2016 begins: "The cure for the common home is our mission" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - 220,000 copies of "Missionary Novena" have just been printed, one of the subsidies for the animation of the Missionary Campaign in Brazil which this year has the theme "The cure for the common ...
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  15 June 2016
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Fleeing the violence of the 'maras' San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - El Salvador is experiencing a serious outbreak of violence among criminal gangs. According to information sent to Fides, the small but densely populated Central American nation registered m ...
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  15 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops' message for the elections: No to the single party, yes to ideological plurality Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), at the end of its meeting yesterday, in which it examined the reality that the country is experiencing, published a special message to the people of ...