America

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  29 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Dominican missionaries in the Amazon: evangelization, training, health and infrastructure Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - "In the magazine "Memoria Selvas Amazonicas 2020" the missionaries of the Dominican order publish a report on their own activities in the Amazon. "Selvas Amazonicas - Dominican Mission ...
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  28 May 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Month of Spiritual Professions: "God had a dream for St. Joseph ..." Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Under the motto "God had a dream for St. Joseph ... what dream do you have for yourself?" the Church in Uruguay celebrates the Month of the Spiritual Professions in June. The President of the ...
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  28 May 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catholic Radio Stations: Still serving community and evangelization despite economic difficulties Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of radio stations from all over the country took part in a virtual meeting of the Catholic Broadcasting Association (ARCA) in Chile on May 24th. The focus was on the current sit ...
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  27 May 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The responsibility of Christians to build a truly democratic and participatory society Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - "In the current context, we are all invited to become aware of the responsibility of citizens to build a truly democratic and participatory society. Christians in particular have the mandate ...
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  27 May 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Vaccines are lacking, unemployment increases: the Apostolic Vicar of Chaco calls on the government and politicians "to do their job well" Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - "If in the first year of the pandemic we had fewer deaths and more unemployed, in this second year we have more deaths and more unemployed, because it is difficult for us to do our job well and th ...
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  26 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Ahead of the presidential election: Bishops comment on “difficult moments” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - According to Peruvian custom, the Peruvian Bishops' Conference has invited the two candidates in the run-off election for the presidency to a "fraternal meeting" on June 6th. The meeting with Keiko ...
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  25 May 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Biden administration grants Haitian immigrants the Temporary Protected Status Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the United States welcomes the announcement by the Biden administration that it has included immigrant citizens from Haiti under the protection of the "Temporary Protec ...
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  25 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "No more terrorism. No more violence in Peru": strong condemnation of the Bishops for the massacre of 16 people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "No more terrorism. No more violence in Peru", says His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte OFM, Archbishop of Trujillo and president of the Bishops' Conference of Peru (CEP) in condemning the cruel ...
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  24 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Recognition of the martyrdom of "Aguchita": religious missionary among the indigenous Ashaninka people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on May 22 to promulgate several decrees, including the one recognizing the martyrdom of the Servant of God, Sister María Agostina ...
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  24 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops reiterate the need for dialogue: "factors of rapprochement prevail over those of division or hatred" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia are launching a new appeal to follow the path of dialogue in search of agreements that will lead to overcoming this difficult moment that the country has to face. "We rati ...
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  22 May 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Scalabrinians inaugurate an educational center for refugees and migrants in Tijuana Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - "In this new space, many families and adults will be able to realize their goals, dreams and life plans. It will be a safe place, in which we will continue a fight that began more than 130 years ...
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  22 May 2021
  AMERICA - To all the Bishops' Conferences the task of assuming and promoting Renewal and Restructuring Project of CELAM Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In these days "we have carried out, in a spirit of communion and fraternity, a contemplative gaze at the Latin American and Caribbean reality, with a universal and hopeful vision, and in the pers ...
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  21 May 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Laudato Sì Week: symbolic embrace of solidarity with the population mobilized for open pit mining projects Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the activities promoted for the "Laudato Sì Week", the National Commission for Justice and Peace is promoting for today, May 21, at 6 pm, a symbolic embrace to thousands of peop ...
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  21 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - New meeting between government and protesters, as Covid 19 increases Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday for the third time, the representatives of the Colombian government met with those of the National Strike Committee (CNP), to begin negotiations (see Fides, 18/5/2021). "We want guarant ...
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  20 May 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Online dissemination workshop for parish communicators of the Archdiocese of La Serena La Serena (Agenzia Fides) - Within the framework of the World Day of Social Communications, the pastoral agents who regularly collaborate in the dissemination of the activities of their communities in the Archdiocese of ...