America

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  30 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Cry for peace" of the Bishops of Chocó and Antioquia to criminal groups: ceasefire for one hundred days Quibdó (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Holy Week celebrations, the bishops of the dioceses of Quibdó, Istmina-Tadó and Apartadó, launch an appeal to criminal groups for a 100-day ceasefire. "Faced with the ...
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  30 March 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The parish priest of Cristo Rey in Dolores Hidalgo found dead with signs of violence Celaya (Agenzia Fides) - Father Gumersindo Cortés González, director of the Retreat House in Atotonilco for many years and then parish priest of Asunción, in the Zapote district of Celaya (Mexico), has been found dead ...
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  29 March 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Living Holy Week as a domestic Church in times of pandemic Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Venezuela, through the Department of Liturgy, have prepared a subsidy for the celebration of Holy Week with the family, facilitating the experience of living these holy days as a ...
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  29 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Historical memory for reconciliation and peace: project in the diocese of Valledupar Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Strengthening all processes of remembrance and historical memory is to give roots to communities, and when a community has roots, it can withstand many winds and difficulties", underlined the B ...
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  29 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Broaden your gaze" urges Archbishop Chomali for the April elections, with the possibility of postponement due to Covid Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - With a virtual meeting through Zoom, broadcast on social media and broadcast by Radio Chilena Concepción, the document "Reflecting before voting on April 10 and 11" was presented, written b ...
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  27 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops: "Together towards the Risen Christ, light in the night of the pandemic" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "From the current situation, marked by suffering, anguish and death, as a consequence of the pandemic, let us reflect together on two fundamental points of these holy days: the cross and the resurr ...
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  27 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A missionary: "The Church accompanies the peoples of the Amazon on their path of joy and authenticity" Santarém (Agenzia Fides) - "The wounds inflicted on the environment in the Amazon are not only a serious ecological, social and political problem, but they directly involve the Church because the defense of human life i ...
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  26 March 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Senators ask President Biden to recognize the Armenian Genocide Washington (Agenzia Fides) - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 37 of his Senate colleagues in requesting the Biden administration join the U.S. Congress in offici ...
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  26 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Caritas and civil society organizations launch a campaign to reduce the risk of disasters Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Reducing the factors that cause disasters and the material and emotional impact generated by such events: this is the goal of the national campaign launched yesterday by Caritas Chile and by va ...
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  26 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Proposal for dialogue on the part of the Bishops to the Head of State in the face of the worsening health, economic and social situation Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Paraguay had provided exemplary support for the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and even constituted a model for managing this health crisis for other countries in South America. However, a ...
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  25 March 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops appeal in defense of great human values, against the imposition of the "culture of death" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Permanent Commission of the Venezuelan Bishops has published a declaration on the right to life, entitled "Great Human Values", in which it states: "in the face of the real possibility of im ...
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  25 March 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dedicated to St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Bishop and Martyr, the hospital chapel where he was killed San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear Monsignor: It was Monday, March 24, 1980 and the clock indicated 6:20 p.m. You celebrated Holy Mass with your usual devotion and tenderness, saying these words: "May this immolated bo ...
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  24 March 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop and priest ask for more security: many parishes affected by the increase in violence Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Eduardo Horacio García of San Justo (Gran Buenos Aires) and his priests wrote a letter to the Mayor of La Matanza, Fernando Espinoza, and to the Police Deputy of La Matanza, Chief I ...
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  24 March 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - April 23 the beatification of the martyrs of Quiché: 3 missionary priests and 7 lay people "faithful witnesses of God" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 23, 2021 the celebrations for the beatification of ten martyrs of the Guatemalan diocese of Quiché will take place in Santa Cruz del Quiché. The bishops of Guatemala published ...
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  23 March 2021
  AMERICA/CANADA - “Univers”: Magazine of the Pontifical Mission Societies appears online for the first time Toronto (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of French-speaking Canada have published the first issue of Univers magazine for 2021, which collects articles on the work of the PMS in Canada and around ...