America

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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 ...
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  14 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Denying rights kills people, there is very little space for democratic participation Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua continue to speak out against the decision of President Daniel Ortega not to allow the presence of national and international observers, in the presidential elections on ...
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  14 June 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Twenty-one children repatriated in the last 36 months San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - 20% of the total number of repatriated migrants in Honduras are minors. According to data of the National Center of Information of the Honduran Social Sector (Ceniss), over the past 36 ...
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  14 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Letter of the Prior of the Dominicans: "The situation is terrible, people suffer from hunger, human rights are violated" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Venezuela is terrible" and "the population suffers from hunger": these expressions highlight the difficult and painful situation faced by Venezuelans and are found in a letter ...
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  13 June 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Family massacred in Tehuacan, the Bishop: stop all violence Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) - "I am deeply saddened by the tragedy: some hooded people killed members of a family in the Mirador community, belonging to the parish of Coxcatlan. Eleven people killed in only one family, incl ...