America

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  15 December 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - No child should be left alone Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Among its various initiatives, the Foundation Neida Perez Morillo has promoted Ayúdanos a Ayudar with the objective of assisting children and street youth. Currently in Venezuela, the Foundatio ...
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  14 December 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa calls for an amesty Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, in an interview with the local television "Televen", sent to Fides, spoke of the last parliamentary elections held on December 6. As a citize ...
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  14 December 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - About 37 thousand people displaced due to the rise of the River Paraguay Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The waters of the Paraguay River are exceeding the maximum level of 7 meters in height towards the capital Asunción, forcing about 37,000 people to flee their homes. According to the National ...
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  14 December 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The missing are "legally declared dead": the Bishop say the authorities want to close the investigation Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, His Exc. Mgr. Antonio González Sánchez, denounced that it is clear to everyone that the judicial authorities intend to clo ...
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  11 December 2015
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Mgr. Gonzalez Nieves to the United Nations: "I come for my people who are suffering" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - San Juan's Archbishop, His Exc. Mgr. Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M. called on Puerto Rico's government and debt holders to negotiate a comprehensive solution to the island's debt crisis in a ...
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  11 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Year of Mercy opens in prison num. 39 Moron (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Year of Mercy also opened in prison num. 39 in the city of Ituzaingó, that belongs to the great Buenos Aires. His Exc. Mgr. Luis Guillermo Eichhorn of the Diocese of Moron, on Wednesday, ...
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  11 December 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Children's Village Singers involved in the fight against child labor Quito (Agenzia Fides) - 'Por tí vamos a vencer' is the title of the musical play just presented by the Economic and Social Inclusion Ministry (MIES) and interpreted by the 'Niños Cantores del Pueblo' choir. The more th ...
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  10 December 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru and Ecuador agree to regularize the situation of illegal immigrants Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The ambassador of Ecuador in Lima, Jorge Sandoval, informed that Peru and Ecuador are completing the negotiation of a new statute to regularize the situation of immigrants in both countries, within ...
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  10 December 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Terrazas has died, promoter of solidarity and peaceful coexistence in difficult times Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Bolivian Cardinal Julio Terrazas died yesterday, December 9, at 7.15 pm. This was communicated by the Archbishop of Santa Cruz, His Exc. Mgr. Sergio Gualberti, in a note sent to Fides: "Just ...
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  10 December 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - A nutrition program to help Ashaninka children who suffer from malnutrition Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The raids and assaults carried out between 1980 and 2000, due to the work of wood traders, miners and members of the Shining Path, not only reduced the lands of the Ashaninka ethnic group that live ...
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  9 December 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Two million faithful on the occasion of the feast of the patroness saint of Paraguay Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly two million faithful, according to police estimates, gathered between Monday 7 and Tuesday, 8 December, around the Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles in Caacupé, Patroness of Paraguay, ab ...
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  7 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Drug is not lightning in the middle of a dark night" says Mgr. Uriona Villa de la Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the issue of drugs should be fought with prevention. Drug is not lightning in the middle of a dark night, but is caused by family situations of abandonment becaus ...
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  7 December 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Anniversary of Caritas Bolivia, at the service of the poorest among the poor Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - On December 4, 1958 the Bolivian state granted official recognition to the Caritas Bolivia Social Pastoral as an institution created by the Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB), with the aim of ...
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  5 December 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - "Martyrs of faith and charity, witnesses of hope", today ceremony of beatification Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The main Catholic radio stations in Peru, Radio Maria and Radio Santa Rosa, have confirmed the live broadcast of the ceremony of beatification of the first three martyrs of Peru, which will be ...
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  5 December 2015
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Eric LeCompte: "The solution to the debt crisis must protect the most vulnerable" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "Puerto Rico needs a solution to the debt crisis that prevents austerity and protects the vulnerable", said to Fides Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group, Jubile ...