America

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  5 July 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Camillians after Hurricane Beryl: "We are still alive, thank God!" Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "We have survived the first hurricane of the season and despite significant damage to crops and the most fragile houses... but we are still alive, thank God," said Father Massimo Miraglio, a Ca ...
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  26 June 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Latin American bishops concerned about the impact of drug trafficking: "We must not give up" Bogotà (Fides Agency) – "The fact that drug trafficking manages to infiltrate and corrupt the power of the state, the police, the armed forces, the media, businesses, in short, all the institutions of democracy, is a ...
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  14 June 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace and justice: Working group for Colombia seeks common solutions Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Migration, human rights violations, peace and environmental protection are just some of the issues that the Working Group for Colombia (GTC) is dealing with these days in Rome to strengthen peace a ...
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  8 June 2024
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops launch digitization in the dioceses Pando (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Eugenio Coter, Apostolic Vicar of Pando in northern Bolivia, wants to initiate a process of digitization and modernization in the country's dioceses. "The introduction of special softwa ...
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  7 June 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Víctor Auguste: “The situation is difficult to describe in words” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Life in Haiti, especially in the metropolitan area Port-au-Prince, is difficult to describe in words. We are in a state of almost total anarchy. People are generally unable to carry out ...
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  7 June 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Great participation at the funeral of Father Ramón Arturo Montejo, killed in a robbery Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of hundreds of priests from the Province of Ocaña and numerous faithful, the funeral of Father Ramón Arturo Montejo Peinado, parish priest of San José in Buenavista, who was b ...
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  28 May 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The international police force will be deployed in Haiti in three weeks Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan-led multinational mission in Haiti "will not be deployed before three weeks". Kenyan President William Ruto announced this in an interview with the BBC. Originally, 200 Kenyan ...
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  27 May 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - “Humanitarian catastrophe”: healthcare is on the verge of collapse Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The escalation of violence in Port-au-Prince and Artibonite, a province north-west of the capital, is plunging Haiti into a humanitarian catastrophe. The health system is on the verge of ...
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  13 May 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The grateful memory of Father Carlos Múgica remains in the hearts of his people, 50 years after his assassination by Stefano Lodigiani Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Father Carlos still urges us today to strengthen in each neighborhood a community that organizes itself to accompany the life of our people, and he challenges us ...
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  10 May 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Massimo Miraglio: There is insecurity in the capital and there is a lack of food and infrastructure, but the situation is improving” by Antonella Prenna Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The news arriving from Port au Prince in recent months describes a dramatic situation, with constant shootings and violence between armed gangs. "At the moment the ...
• 3 May 2024
  AMERICA/DOMINICA - Appointment of bishop of Roseau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Kendrick John Forbes, of the clergy of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nassau, Bahamas, until now vicar general, judicial vicar and parish priest ...
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  4 April 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - People on the run, healthcare system on the brink of collapse: Camillians barricade themselves in the capital's hospital Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The gangs have more weapons every day and are becoming more cruel, we have barricaded ourselves in the hospital and hope that they do not attack us. We cannot go out to buy food or medic ...
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  27 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The situation remains blocked in Haiti while the population continues to suffer Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The situation remains blocked in Haiti, where the nine members of the Transitional Presidential Council have not yet agreed on the name of the new Prime Minister. The Transitional Council ...
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  20 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The Church is suffering but there are lights of hope" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Difficult" is how Sister Marcella Catozza of the Franciscan Sisters of Busto Arsizio, who has been working in Haiti for 20 years, describes the situation of the Church in the Caribbean c ...
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  15 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The resignation of the Haitian prime minister under pressure from gang violence has set a dangerous precedent" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The resignation of the Prime Minister has made it clear that the plan of the armed groups to take power in Haiti has worked," said Sister Marcella Catozza of the Franciscan Sisters of Bu ...