America

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  13 November 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "We need and want a change" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to say without fear that we need and want a change. We must have hope of real change", reads the final text of the Plenary Assembly of Bishops of Bolivia, held from 5-10 November in ...
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  13 November 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Two more religious missionary nuns sent to Haiti: they will help children, youth and families Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The inter-congregational religious community in Haiti will receive two Brazilian missionaries: Sister Zenaide Laurentina Mayer, of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, and ...
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  12 November 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Meeting of the Pan-Amazonian Network: necessity to listen to indigenous peoples to protect creation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian ecclesial network - REPAM will meet in Bogota from November 16 to 18 with representatives of the various ecclesial organizations and partners from 9 countries that are part of t ...
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  12 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Minors not allowed to work in the sugarcane fields Chetumal (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (STPS) will not tolerate any child under 18 years of age to be employed in the harvesting of sugarcane for 2015-2016. In a statement to the loc ...
• 11 November 2015
  AMERICA/SURINAME - Appointment of the Bishop of Paramaribo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 November 2015, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Karel Choennie, parish priest and former Vicar General of the same diocese as Bishop of Paramaribo (Suriname). Rev. Karel Choennie was b ...
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  11 November 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops call for elections: "Free vote, essential to strengthen democracy" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) has called for the legislative elections, scheduled for December 6, to be held in a "peaceful manner, with great freedom and with the widest possible par ...
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  11 November 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 140 years ago the first group of Salesian missionaries arrived in Patagonia Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 November 1875 the church of Mary Help of Christians in Valdocco (Turin, Italy) lived a great moment: the departure of the first ten Salesian missionaries destined to reach Argentina. ...
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  10 November 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 3,000 participants at the III National Missionary Congress: to relaunch the missionary parish Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to continue the missionary renewal of the local churches in Peru, the Archdiocese of Trujillo, the Episcopal Commission for Missions and the National Directorate of the Pontific ...
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  10 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A battlefield where migrants suffer, are attacked, die Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "According to the Special Programme for migration 2014 to 2018, published in the Official Journal of the Federation on April 30, 2014, the primary purpose of the ideals of migration policy i ...
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  9 November 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Assembly of Bishops in progress: Eucharistic Congress, family and priestly formation Buenos Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The 110th Plenary Assembly of the Argentinean Bishops' Conference, which brings together more than one hundred Bishops of this country, opened yesterday, with a Eucharistic Celebration. The ...
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  7 November 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The program for the beatification of three priests killed in 1991 by the Shining Path presented to Parliament Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The official program of the beatification ceremony of priests Michael Tomaszek, Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Alessandro Dordi, killed in 1991 in Pariacoto (north of Lima) by the Sendero Luminoso terro ...
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  7 November 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Bolivia towards the American Missionary Congress Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Cilenia Rojas, National Coordinator of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Bolivia praised the interest and encouragement expressed by the Bolivian Bishops before the news that Bolivia ...
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  6 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi inaugurates a house of the migrant in Tuxtla Gutierrez Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - On November 3, the Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, inaugurated a house to welcome migrants. The house will be a reference point for ...
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  6 November 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 100th Assembly of the Episcopal Conference: V American Missionary Congress (CAM 5) is among the topics to be discussed Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The 100th Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (CEB) takes place these days, from November 5 to 10, in Cochabamba. In this second meeting of 2015, the Bolivian Bishops must elect t ...
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  5 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops' appeal for peace: "Dialogue with everyone, even with organized crime" Guerrero (Agenzia Fides) - The four Bishops of the dioceses of Guerrero State have asked the government to "talk" with organized crime in order to reverse the serious situation of insecurity and violence that exists in t ...