America

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  9 November 2023
  AMERICA/CUBA - "The Church is where the Christian is and the Lord is there": Jubilee Year for the fifth centenary of the first diocese on Cuban soil Santiago de Cuba (Agenzia Fides) - Last October 22 marked a historical milestone for the Cuban population with the opening of the Jubilee Year for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba, ...
• 16 October 2023
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Resignation of Bishop of Montego Bay Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Montego Bay, Jamaica, presented by Bishop Burchell Alexander McPherson. (EG) (Fid ...
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  9 October 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Education, food, health care, faith formation: glimmers of light and hope for a small rural community Cap-Haïtien ( Fides News Agency) - Despite years of political upheaval, the earthquake in 2010 and the COVID-19 pandemic, children in a rural community 10 miles south of Cap-Haïtien are not losing faith, and thanks to ...
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  29 September 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The bishops of Tierra Caliente and Chiapas: violence and insecurity are destroying the Mexican people Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - "The State of Michoacán is a violent State with a history of increasing violence with clashes between criminal gangs, some of which seem to be involved with the authorities." This is what the A ...
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  28 September 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Camillian missionaries accompany the people exhausted by violence and hunger in their everyday lives Purcine (Agenzia Fides) - "People need a spiritual director who lives with them and helps them bear the burden of daily hardships," said Camillian Father Massimo Miraglio, who lives and works as a missionary in the count ...
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  25 September 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Nestor Fils-Aimé: “We only live on hope. Is not our God the God of the impossible?” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy state of instability, violence and terror that has continued to rage in Haiti for four long years also affects the Clerics of Saint-Viator missionaries present on the Caribbean ...
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  21 September 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Against the ‘Managua Wall’, the Holy See Can Rely on Traditional Diplomatic Tactics by Victor Gaetan Nicaragua is a member of the Central American Common Market (CACM) including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. China is CACM's second largest global trade partner, after the United Sta ...
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  13 September 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Archbishop of Monterrey: the Catholic Church has the task of convincing that the path of peace is the path of God Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - "What is the role that we all have as citizens in this fight so that there is peace in Mexico?", asks Rogelio Cabrera López, President of the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) speaking abo ...
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  6 September 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Drug traffickers ship cocaine in banana containers Quito (Agenzia Fides) - More than 9.5 tons of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas from Ecuador were seized last week by the Spanish authorities. This is proof of the collaboration of drug traffickers in one of the co ...
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  1 September 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Power struggle of criminal organizations: bomb attacks in the capital Quito Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Drug traffickers are targeting Ecuador, where 50 guards and seven police officers are being held hostage in six of the country's main prisons. Meanwhile, in the capital Quito, two car bombs with g ...
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  30 August 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous peoples: Catholic Church strives for inculturation Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In almost every Latin American Episcopal Conference there is a commission dedicated to the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples", says Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi, Bishop Emeritus o ...
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  21 August 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presidential vote and environmental referendum: No to drilling in the Amazon; two candidates for the second round Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador still in shock over the assassination of candidate Fernando Villavicencio (see Fides, 10/8/2023) voted yesterday, Sunday August 20, for the first round of presidential elections and for th ...
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  11 August 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Slaying of presidential candidate brings to light criminal underworld connected with international cocaine trade Quito (Fides News Agency) - Six Columbians were arrested yesterday, August 10, in connection with the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio (see Fides 10/8/2023). During a police raid on an establishmen ...
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  10 August 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Slain candidate: the Bishops' solidarity with the family Quito (Fides News Agency) - "We stand in solidarity with the victim's family, and we condemn every form of violence at all levels of society". This was how Ecuador’s Bishops expressed themselves in a statement after th ...
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  3 August 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrant children: roughly one in every four travelers is an infant Mexico City (Fides News Agency) - Organized crime, human trafficking, abuse, these are just some of the phenomena in which migrant children travelling alone to escape Mexico face. "The issue of unaccompanied minors trav ...