America

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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa’s appeal in the face of lynchings and widespread violence: "Do not kill" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, yesterday published a letter, also signed by the four auxiliary Bishops, in which he condemned the lynching of criminals as sin. "With dee ...
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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Poverty, abuse and family conflicts are forcing children to live on the streets New York (Agenzia Fides) - A report by the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) revealed that, in 2015, 2 and a half million children in the United States were living in shelters, on the streets, in cars, or in ...
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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Inhumane conditions for children and workers found in a warehouse for packaging Maipu (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Government inspection in a warehouse for packaging in the department of Maipú, province of Mendoza, workers and children were found living in inhuman conditions in these unhealthy env ...
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  11 April 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - First International Congress on human rights and Catholic thought in Latin America La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the First International Congress on human rights and Catholic thought in Latin America, which took place from April 7 to 9, the Bolivian "San Pablo" Catholic University (UCB) stress ...
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  11 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Assembly of Bishops concluded: concern over the violence in Araucania Punta de Tralca (Agenzia Fides) - Particular concern for the violence in Araucanía and an appeal to collaborate in first person in the building of a better life was expressed by the Chilean Bishops in their concluding ...
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  11 April 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - A "children's clubs" to prevent diseases Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The health center of Guarambaré has just launched a "children's club", a space where the little ones and their parents will be together once a month. The statement sent to Fides says that the ...
• 11 April 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Gaitán, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 April 2016 the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Luis Horacio Gómez Gonz ...
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  8 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - First stone of the new main church in Siuna Siuna (Agenzia Fides) – There was great joy for the laying of the foundation stone on April 3, of what will be the main church in Siuna, a very poor Nicaraguan municipality, abandoned by state services, and part of the ...
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  7 April 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of Bishops: without the help of the laity there cannot be an "outgoing Church" Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "We sincerely hope that this meeting will help us to support and enhance the mission of the laity. There cannot be an "outgoing Church" without the help of the laity, and a just and fraternal ...
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  6 April 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The serious situation of drug trafficking denounced by the Bishops, who gather in Assembly Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, April 7, the Bishops of Bolivia will meet in Assembly in Cochabamba. According to the note sent to Fides, the meetings of the working groups of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference Comm ...
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  6 April 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Over three million working children Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3 million underage children and young Brazilians are involved in the labor market, 31% in agriculture. This is what emerges in a report recently submitted by the Abrinq Foundati ...
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  6 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Amnesty law: the relatives of political prisoners call for the intervention of the Pope Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A group of family members of Venezuela's political prisoners chained themselves yesterday afternoon at the entrance gate of the Apostolic Nunciature in Caracas, demanding the intervention of the ...
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  5 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Award to "Las Patronas": recognition for solidarity with migrants Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The historian Jean Meyer Barth, Bishop Raul Vera Lopez and "Las Patronas", a group of women who provide food and assistance to migrants crossing the center of Veracruz, will receive the Medal o ...
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  5 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Mapuche conflict": another church burned Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – This morning a fire destroyed a chapel in Quepe, in the municipality of Freire, Chilean region of La Araucania. The chapel had been a reference point for the local faithful for 30 years. Accor ...
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  4 April 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Worsening of poverty Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A "significant deterioration" of poverty was registered in Argentina in the first quarter of 2016: is what the latest report of the social debt observatory (ODSA) of the Universidad Católi ...