America

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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 ...
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  2 August 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Turning protests into constructive dialogue: the Archbishop of Arequipa's plea Arequipa (Fides News Agency) – "Remaining united in our faith in Christ in the face of ideologies", with these words the Archbishop of Arequipa, Javier Del Río Alba, urged the people of Peru during the recently conclu ...
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  1 August 2023
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Wyd 2023: "Travel with little baggage so that God may strengthen your lives" Panama City (Fides News Agency) - "Godspeed, and leave behind your heavy baggage so that God may strengthen your lives and Mary accompany you in this pilgrimage". With these words of encouragement the Archbishop of Panam ...
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  24 July 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Auxiliary bishop Villareal: "Meetings like WYD bring young people closer to Christ" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "World Youth Day is a great experience of encounter that helps many young people to revitalize their faith", said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Mexico, Héctor Pérez Villareal, ...
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  19 July 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - Sending Mass for the young people of the Archdiocese of Concepción ready for Lisbon 2023 Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - The young people of the Archdiocese of Concepción are also ready to meet Pope Francis during the World Youth Days which will take place from August 1 to 6 in Lisbon. Preparations for them b ...
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  18 July 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The "ecological way" of the exploitation of Bolivian lithium La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Bolivia has the largest lithium deposits in the world, located in the high Andean plateau known as the "Salar de Uyuni". In contrast to the two other countries in the so-called "Lithium Triangle" ...
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  11 July 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - G9 gangs continue to threaten, loot and fuel insecurity: No one is spared from rising violence Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is very difficult, the bandits continue to arrive. Yesterday they came in force and it was really bad because they were not peaceful. While other times they come to talk, t ...
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  6 July 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Rumors of Bishop Álvarez's alleged release denied Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Late in the evening yesterday, July 5, 2023, news spread of the release of five priests who, together with Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, had been sentenced to more than 26 years in priso ...
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  5 July 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - Espacio Misericordia: young volunteers welcome the homeless Concepciòn (Agenzia Fides) - "How can we find again a space that we can use to care for the homeless?" In response to this question from Gabriela Gutiérrez, Episcopal Delegate for Social Pastoral Care of the Archdioces ...