America

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  28 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest assaulted and handcuffed, "the arms trade is flourishing", denounces the Bishop Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - "The violent assault committed by armed men against the parish of the Señor de la Clemencia in Irapuato, is a painful affront to the whole community", said the Bishop of the Diocese of Irapuat ...
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  28 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops on the serious situation in the country: "Be peaceful but active citizens" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Never before had Venezuelans suffered an extreme lack of basic necessities such as food and medicines, along with other evils such as criminal and inhuman crime, rationing of electricity and wa ...
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  27 April 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Statement of the Bishops on death penalty: "Today it is unacceptable" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Human life is a gift from God, and therefore we are obliged to respect and protect it from the first moment of conception until its natural end", reads the first lines of the communiqué of the Pe ...
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  27 April 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three women killed because deaf Leveque (Agenzia Fides) - Three deaf mothers were found dead on the road that goes from the Haitian capital to Leveque. They were returning home on foot together because a bridge had collapsed and there was no bus servic ...
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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The army must act in an ethical manner", says Mgr. Herrera on the conflict in Ayapal Ayapal (Agenzia Fides) - "The army of Nicaragua should proceed following the ethical principles in the existing conflict in the Ayapal community" said His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Enrique Herrera Guttierez OFM, Bishop of the dio ...
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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Evangelical church set on fire, still in the name of the Mapuche cause Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Another church in the Chilean region of La Araucania was set on fire: last night the fire destroyed an evangelical church, in the municipality of Padres Las Casas. Although firefighters arrived o ...
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  25 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Earthquakes cause extreme difficulties for those affected by disability Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The death toll of the earthquake that just over a week ago struck Ecuador rises: more than 710 people have died or are missing, including some 16,600 injured and some are still in serious condit ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Vargas: "Churches burned to solve the Mapuche conflict is unexplainable" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Hector Eduardo Vargas Bastidas, S.D.B. in a testimony sent to Fides, highlights the situation after the attacks on churches which recently occurred in southern ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Too much military presence indicates weakness": demonstration against the inter-oceanic canal Nueva Guinea (Agenzia Fides) - The military and police presence on the route that will follow the fourth national March against the inter-oceanic canal, scheduled for today, April 22, in Nueva Guinea, "scares" the popula ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The ordeal and growing despair among the 2,500 Cubans blocked at the border continues David (Agenzia Fides) - "As Pastoral Social-Caritas Panama, from 6 to 18 April we visited along with some Caritas delegates of David, the centers where there are Cubans migrants in Paso Canoas. Here there are more than 2 ...
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  21 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Mata fears a return to the law of the jungle after the violent death of the mayor of Ayala Estelí (Agenzia Fides) - "It hurts me, as a citizen and as pastor, (...), especially when we talk about a person who followed appropriate channels to raise the issue, but it seems that things are even worse than before. ...
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  21 April 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - 57 percent of young Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - As Congress debates legislative solutions for Puerto Rico's financial crisis (see Fides 18/03/2016, 12/04/2016), new reports indicate that the island's child poverty rate is worse than previous ...
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  20 April 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A priest who disappeared a week ago found dead St. Augustine (Agenzia Fides) - Father Rene Wayne Robert, a priest of the Diocese of Saint Augustine in Florida, 71, who disappeared last week, was found dead in Georgia, on Monday, April 18, as informs the police in an ...
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  20 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A missionary: "Our support and our prayer is needed" Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) - Don Luis Fernando Criado Reca, Spanish diocesan priest of Jaen, has been a missionary in Ecuador for 12 years. He is currently parish priest in the northern province of Esmeraldas, on the bor ...
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  19 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops call on teachers in Oaxaca to demonstrate without violence: "their fight is right" Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - "The fight that teachers, pensioners and non are carrying out in front of the Government Palace is right, and the Church cannot remain silent, because it is our duty to support and listen to thei ...