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  9 March 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Mgr. Romulo Emiliani’s appeal: "Assassins and instigators, stop killing!" San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "Honduras is experiencing difficult days during this Lent season, due to the events that have affected families", says Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula, His Exc. Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, r ...
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  9 March 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - A church and a retreat house in the region of La Araucanía burned down Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday March 8, masked men set fire on a shrine and a house used for holidays and spiritual retreats, on the road that links Vilcun and Cajon, in the region of La Araucania, diocese of Temuco, ...
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  8 March 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishop Goic: "a society of more equity, for life with more dignity " AMERICA/CHILE - Bishop Goic: "a society of more equity, for life with more dignity " Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic, of the diocese of Rancagua who is about to celebrate fifty years of pr ...
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  7 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop intervenes to calm the people after 'disappeared' person is found dead Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of people, friends and family members of Victor Garcia Garcia, found dead with evident signs of torture in Ejido Salvador, in the area of Tierra Blanca, staged protests on 5 March ...
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  7 March 2016
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "The Gospel of joy guides our mission": international symposium prepares CAM 5 Pando (Agenzia Fides) – " The Gospel of Joy Guides our Mission " was the theme of the 2nd International Missiology Symposium held in Ururguay 28 February to 2 March. The symposium is part of preparations for the 5th ...
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  7 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Scarcity of jobs, low wages, dangerous work, poverty Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mexico is experiencing an economic crisis. Among the most serious consequences, violation of the right to work , which means unemployment, low wages, discrimination, dangerous jobs. This ...
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  5 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must learn to build not to destroy!” says Bishop Galván Galindo against “narcocorridos” music Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) – " We must learn to build not destroy! Today’s type of music influences the state of mind of many adolescents. If they listen to "Narco Corridos" music they want to emulate these people and ...
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  5 March 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - “Deportation of migrants increases”, concern at the end of a regional Meeting of Migrant Pastoral experts Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – Bishops and pastoral workers from the United States, central America and Mexico denounce an increase in deportation migrants in recent years. In a statement at the end of the 8th r ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre for street children Cuautla (Agenzia Fides) – About 150 children who have no school to go to and are forced to spend their days on the streets, have been accepted at the new La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre, organized by Santiago ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Leading environmentalist Berta Cacere assassinated after ten years of threats La Esperanza (Agenzia Fides) – Leading environmentalist Berta Caceres, well known in Honduras, was murdered at dawn yesterday, Thursday 3 March, at La Esperanza, about 200 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, in the west of t ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “showing mercy is not weakness ”: says Bishop Aguilar Martínez after recent acts of violence Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) – "The world today does not encouge us to have mercy on the contrary, it encourages us to be forceful judges and executants so that violence is punished with more violence and this is arroganc ...
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  AMERICA/CANADA - Appoinment of new PMS National Director Fr. Yoland Oullet Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 8 January 2016 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in French sp ...
• 4 March 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Fr. Gianluca Roso Pontifical Mission Societies National Director confirmed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, confirmed on 8 January 2016 for a five year term the present National Director of the Pontifical ...
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  3 March 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - After 30 years former army members found guilty of crimes against indigenous women Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – At last they have been convicted of crimes against humanity including sexual and domestic violence, sexual slavery , involving women of the village of Maya Q'eqchi', the murder Doming ...
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  3 March 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Zika virus continues to spread, 30 countries in Latin America already affected Havana (Agenzia Fides) –Hygiene and Epidemiology Department officials, who asked not to be named, confirmed that on February 28 Cuban health authorities spoke of 21 cases of Zika virus on the island of Cuba. The gover ...