America

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  10 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The emergence of criminal gangs in Haiti Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Around 300 gangs control 80% of the capital of Haiti, as the UN special envoy for the Caribbean country, Maria Isabel Salvador, reported to the UN Security Council (see Fides, 22/1/2024). ...
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  6 February 2024
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on forest fires: “It is a disaster” Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The number of people who died in the devastating fire in the coastal area of Valparaíso last Friday, February 2, continues to rise: "The situation is really tragic, it is a catastrophe", said ...
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  26 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnapped religious women released Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The six sisters of the Congregation of Saint Anne who were kidnapped on January 19 are free (see Fides 22/1/2024). Together with them, the other two captives, the driver of the minibus in ...
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  25 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “The majority of perpetrators are young people who are sent to the front to be killed” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the perpetrators are teenagers, young people without life experience and training, like a piece of meat to be slaughtered, sent to the front to be killed," said Antonio Crameri, b ...
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  22 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Which of the 300 Haitian gangs kidnapped the 6 nuns? Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no news about the total of eight people (including six religious sisters) who were kidnapped in Haiti on January 19. The sisters, who belong to the Congrégation des Sœurs ...
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  20 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - From "island of peace" to one of the most violent countries in the world Quito (Agenzia Fides) - From "island of peace" to the eleventh most violent country in the world, on a par with Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, accor ...
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  18 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Prosecutor investigating links between narcos and corrupt officials killed Quito (Agenzia Fides) - César Suárez, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assassinated yesterday, January 17, was carrying out delicate investigations. The prosecutor was murdered with at least 20 gunshots last night in Guayaqui ...
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  18 January 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - 16 non-governmental organizations dissolved, including some Catholic organizations Managua (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the release of 19 Catholic Bishops, priests and seminarians (see Fides, 15/1/2024) detained in the prisons of Managua, it became known that sixteen non-governmental organization ...
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  15 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Security forces regain control of prisons and free hostages Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In Ecuador, eleven police officers and a total of 201 prison officers have been released in seven prisons in the country, where they had been taken hostage by revolting prisoners (see Fides 12/1/2 ...
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  12 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - There are still 180 hostages in prisons; the bishops: "May Ecuador once again be a place of peace, work and fraternity" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - There are still 180 hostages in the hands of prisoners in revolt in 7 prisons in Ecuador. Since January 8, 158 prison guards and 20 members of administrative staff have been taken hostage, just af ...
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  11 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Ecuador shows that illegal trade has a strong destabilizing force” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a state of war and must not surrender to terrorist groups", said the President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa speaking yesterday, January 10, to the nation, traumatized by the violence unleash ...
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  10 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Latin American countries concerned about the situation in Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing concern in Latin America about the situation in Ecuador, where President Daniel Noboa spoke yesterday, January 9, of an "internal armed conflict". Noboa, meanwhile, ordered the mi ...
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  9 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Gangster boss manages to escape from prison: President declares a state of emergency Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In Ecuador a state of emergency has been declared due to the escape of the country's "number 1 criminal". The measure was taken yesterday, January 8, by President Daniel Noboa after José Adolfo M ...
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  3 January 2024
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Kenyan missionary found dead; Warao indigenous people call for "serious and credible" investigation Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A "serious and credible" investigation into the death of the missionary "with a big smile". This is what the Warao community from the Delta Amacuro state in eastern Venezuela is demanding in ord ...
• 21 December 2023
  AMERICA/CUBA - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 13, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the Rev. Fr. Víctor López Latore as National Director of the Pontifical Mis ...