America

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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mgr. Peña Rodríguez’s appeal for the elections: "Do not choose people without morals" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Dominican Episcopal Conference, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, Bishop of the Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, called on the Do ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Alert for the spread of the zika virus among pregnant women San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Following the declaration of the local Ministry of Health of the state of alert in 47 municipalities of 11 departments in the Country due to the presence of the vector that transmits the zi ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops call for an end to the expulsion of illegal immigrants Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the United States has asked the government in recent weeks to end deportation raids of Central American families without valid documents. According to information ...
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  12 January 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Mgr. Serpa and the prisoners in Cuba: Being imprisoned, “shut in”, is not the same thing as being “shut out” Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Cuban diocese of Pinar del Río, His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Serpa said that in Cuba there are political prisoners, and these are people with long convictions for whom he has asked a re ...
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  12 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For the Bishops: the capture of 'El Chapo' should give hope that crime will decrease Celaya (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. José Benjamín Castillo Plascencia, Bishop of Celaya, said that the new capture of "El Chapo", the well-known criminal, head of a Mexican organization dedicated to international dr ...
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  11 January 2016
  AMERICA - Latin America, the most dangerous region for human rights defenders Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America is the most dangerous region for activists who defend human rights: dozens of people died here defending land rights, the environment and the indigenous and homosexual community, a ...
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  11 January 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The situation of migrants in Honduras: "It is sad that mothers with their children are expelled" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Care of Human Mobility, an organization of the Catholic Church in Honduras, has asked the US government of President Barack Obama to end the recent raids and expulsions of undoc ...
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  9 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Black Nazarene, a devotion without borders New York (Agenzia Fides) - The devotion to the Black Nazarene in Manila does not have borders, and so while all roads in Manila lead to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, many devotees in New York who ca ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Street children remain an invisible problem Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Every two evenings a team of professionals of the Casa San José go out on the streets of Quillacollo looking for abandoned children. Quillacollo is a municipality of the urban area of the ci ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Opening of the Assembly of Bishops, Mgr. Padrón Sánchez: national reconciliation and amnesty for political prisoners Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, Archbishop of Cumaná (Venezuela) and President of the Venezuelan Episcopate opened yesterday (7 January) the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Confe ...
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  7 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - USA Bishops support Obama's line on measures to limit the spread of weapons Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank God there is someone who finally has the courage to fill the gaps in our shameful laws on gun control in order to reduce the number of massacres, murders and suicides that have become ...
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  29 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church, a meeting place for dialogue: more than 10,000 participate in the "oil march" Comodoro (Agenzia Fides) - More than ten thousand people attended the march yesterday morning in the city of Comodoro which was convened by the Trade Union of the oil industry to draw attention on the situation of worker ...
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  29 December 2015
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Expulsion of Cubans begins, still no solution to the problem of migrants San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - There are 56 Cubans ready to be expelled from Costa Rica to Havana as a result of new immigration measures adopted in this country, according to the National Bureau for Migration. On December 1 ...
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  28 December 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - About 7,000 Cuban migrants in difficulty in Central America; Pope's appeal Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "My thoughts in this moment go out to the numerous Cuban migrants who find themselves in difficulty in Central America, many of whom are victims of human trafficking. I invite the Countries of th ...
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  28 December 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Ballot postponed, the Church participates in the Commission of electoral evaluation Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Haiti (CEH) has informed that it has decided to participate in the establishment of the Commission of electoral evaluation (see Fides 23/12/2015). In the statem ...