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9 April 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Covid-19: Caritas Peru helps 40 thousand vulnerable families across the country
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The general coordinator of "Caritas in the face of the coronavirus" campaign, reported on April 3 on national television, that the Caritas network has already assisted about 40,000 families across ...
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8 April 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Digital Via Crucis animated by young people "for the health of the world"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In times of COVID-19, the San Paolo Company (Province Colombia, Ecuador, Panama) created a "digital Via Crucis", involving young people from different countries not only in Latin America: Colombi ...
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8 April 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops launch "Appostolica", to remain united around the pillars of faith in times of the pandemic
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico presented the mobile application "Appostolica", "the Church now closer to you", a free tool "to unite the people of God around the pillars of our faith: the Word of God ...
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8 April 2020
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Home as a "mission land": material to live Holy Week at home
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) shares a series of prayer and reflection resources so that the faithful can follow the celebrations of Holy Week from home, in times of social isolation ...
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7 April 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Civic Alliance condemns the regime's inhuman attitude for not allowing the medical prevention centers promoted by the bishop of Matagalpa
Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Health has prohibited Mgr. Rolando Álvarez, bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, from creating a medical prevention project in the face of the spread of covid-19, which should ...
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7 April 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "It is time to help": the Church continues to work for the most vulnerable
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the health crisis that the world is experiencing, the Colombian Catholic Church in its archdioceses, dioceses and vicariates is working tirelessly with local administrations, universit ...
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6 April 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The testimony of life of Sister Johana, first nun who died of coronavirus in Colombia
Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - "Living a permanent prayer was one of the characteristics of Johana, this was deeply rooted in her, many times she also reminded us older people to pray more, and that is what we did": with th ...
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6 April 2020
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Message of the Bishops to the people of God: "Christ is not quarantined and his Gospel is not in chains"
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Future generations will look back on this as the long Lent of 2020, a time when disease and death suddenly darkened the whole earth. As we enter into Holy Week, these most sacred days of the ...
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3 April 2020
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 500 years since the first mass: "May our life regain meaning, desire, enthusiasm in order to put it at the service of the poorest"
Río Gallegos (Agenzia Fides) - On the 500th anniversary of the first Mass in Argentine territory, in 1520, in the current city of Puerto San Julián, Santa Cruz, the Bishop of Rio Gallegos, Mgr. Jorge García Cuerva, ce ...
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3 April 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church invites to practice charity with the most vulnerable and publishes a vademecum for priests
Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mexico has launched an urgent appeal to the population to practice charity and support the most vulnerable, because in the face of the health crisis caused by the coronavir ...
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3 April 2020
AMERICA/ECUADOR - "From pain we build unity": call of Bishops to civil society, parties, government, in the face of the pandemic
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The families of Ecuador are experiencing moments of distress, pain, uncertainty ... for the proliferation of the Covid 19 pandemic in our country, a situation that requires urgent and adequate at ...
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2 April 2020
AMERICA/CHILE - Religious congregations and dioceses provide homes and spaces for coronavirus patients
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Chile and the world are experiencing a serious health reality. The global spread of Covid-19 has caused a painful number of victims and highlighted the needs and shortcomings of the various he ...
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2 April 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Missionary Childhood: family prayer to stop the pandemic
Leticia (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Celina Mota Sánchez, diocesan director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Apostolic Vicariate of Leticia, Colombia, explains to Fides the pastoral and humanitarian initiati ...
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1 April 2020
AMERICA - On Easter Sunday the consecration of Latin America to Our Lady of Guadalupe, to invoke the end of the pandemic
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), together with the Bishops of Mexico, on Easter Sunday, April 12, will celebrate at 12 noon (Mexico time), the Act of consecrat ...
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1 April 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Hope and support" of the Episcopate for the one-month humanitarian truce of ELN
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "A hope of relief for the Colombian people, especially for those who suffer the consequences of the armed conflict more severely": with these words the Bishops of Colombia accepted the announceme ...
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