America

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  21 March 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Health emergency: dengue in 14 regions Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Ministry of Health (Minsa) has declared a health emergency for 90 days: cases of dengue have been reported in 14 regions. The alert is intended to strengthen the prevention and treat ...
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  21 March 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Cucuta invites the ELN to peace talks Cali (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve, announced yesterday, through social media, that in the coming hours Corporal Jair Villar Ortiz, who had been kidnapped in the city of ...
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  18 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The number of working children is unstoppable Aguascalientes (Agenzia Fides) – Throughout Mexico there are more than 22,000 child laborers, many of whom do not receive any financial remuneration. In a note of the Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers (Crom) in ...
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  18 March 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Cuts in health care, education and pensions in order to pay creditors San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Puerto Rico fails to meet foreign debt payments, so the island is facing legal actions by creditors (see Fides 4,5,11/12/2015). Puerto Rico, free state associated with the United States of Amer ...
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  18 March 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Denunciation of the Bishop: Teachers threatened, more than two thousand children without lessons Jinotega (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,100 school-age children cannot attend classes, in particular in the area of the river Bocay in Ayapal, due to the abandonment of teachers in more than sixty schools. Teachers have been ...
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  17 March 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Castro Quiroga: "What is important is not the date, but the agreement has to be properly formulated" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "What matters is not the date when the agreement is signed, but it has to be properly formulated. We must avoid clauses which may later create problems, it is very important to avoid damaging the ...
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  17 March 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops: "May the State listen to the cry of farmers and their proposals" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) expresses its support to the needs of the population that will give life to the XXIII " March of the Poor Farmer" scheduled today, March 17, in the Pa ...
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  16 March 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 38 children out of danger born from pregnant women who have the zika virus Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest epidemiological bulletin of the National Institute of Health, until March 5, there have been 941 cases of zika cases regarding about 4,020 pregnant women of the Cari ...
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  16 March 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Tension in the north of the country because of the violence of armed groups and police reprisals Jinotega (Agenzia Fides) - After the attack by a group of armed people against a police patrol in the town of Santa Rosa in San Jose de Bocay, (Jinotega) which took place two days ago, now the calm in this community rura ...
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  16 March 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Seven hundred Cuban emigrants in critical situation call for a diplomatic solution Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Luis Lacunza, Bishop of David, has received a report on the situation of the Cuban people in Paso Canoas, and announced that he will inform the Country's Bishops and together ...
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  15 March 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign against the carrier of the zika virus Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Complications related to zika virus, which continues to spread, are increasing and it is urgent to step up efforts. To cope with the problem a second medical operation to eliminate breeding ...
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  15 March 2016
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Last group of Cuban migrants leave today from Costa Rica San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - The last group of 80 Cubans, of the thousands of people who had been detained in Costa Rica since last November, leaves today for Mexico to resume their migration to the United States, as infor ...
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  15 March 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishop of Pucallpa appeals for calm, after 6 days of strikes and violence Pucallpa (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement, the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa, His Exc. Mgr. Gaetano Galbusera Fumagalli, SDB, together with his priests,have asked citizens to remain calm and seek dialogue ...
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  14 March 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Curuguaty case: need to hasten the conclusion to help social peace Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement on the judicial proceedings related to the massacre of Curuguaty, which occurred in 2012, assembly n. 209 of the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) ended yesterday in Ypacara ...
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  14 March 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A new letter of the Bishops on the country's situation is ready Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) have prepared a pastoral letter to be published next week. The letter sent to Fides from a local source highlights what was reported by ...