America

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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 ...
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  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 ...
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  2 March 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Attacks on Salesian Technical Farming Schooi in Barinas Barinas (Agenzia Fides) – The Salesian community which runs a school in Barinas laments that about 15 hectares belonging to the institute are illegally occupied and recently a school truck was set on fire a few metres ...
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  2 March 2016
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops denounce: violence on children has doubled San José (Agenzia Fides) – "Mercy or Violence?" is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica, at the end of a recent assembly: "With deep sorrow we present information supplied ...
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  1 March 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Two hundred mayors unite to combat drug trafficking and defend persons most vulnerable Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – More than 200 mayors from all over Argentina with various political positions, and supported by representatives and leaders of different religious groups, met yesterday to sign a paper o ...
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  1 March 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - America's Catholic Bishops: “encourage prophets of mercy” Tampa (Agenzia Fides) – According to a first report on a meeting of American continent’s Catholic Bishops held in Tampa, Florida (USA), 22 - 25 February (see Fides 23/02/2016), despite the complexity of issues f ...
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  29 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops call for: “Rural developemtn and ethics to build a new post-conflict Colombia ” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – "We are highly concerned about the situation in rural areas … point nne of the peace agreement opens a window for a policy of comprehensive agricultural development ": said the Catholic Bi ...
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  29 February 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “Life is impossible in the present situation of total indifference on the part of the authorities”Bishop Escobar exclaims Upper Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Gabriel Escobar, in charge of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco, has urged the people living in Upper Paraguay to be more insistent in calling the authorities to fulfil their ...
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  26 February 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Dioceses without borders", initiative for the reception of migrants Nogales (Agenzia Fides) - An unprecedented religious celebration took place on Sunday, February 21, at the border between Agua Prieta (Mexico) and Douglas (United States), and in a few months will be repeated at the bord ...
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  26 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - "Let us help them Grow": campaign to donate school supplies to vulnerable children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - By People, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting people with cancer, has urged the population to provide school supplies to patients of the National Institute for Neoplasia (INEM) and H ...