America

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  13 January 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The earthquake of 12 January 2010 taught us a few things": the testimony of a Redemptorist missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Port-au-prince is totally devastated, shouts are heard from under the rubble everywhere", said to Fides the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, 10 years ago, thus informing the ...
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  13 January 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops of the Pacific and Southwest: respect for human rights, peoples and international law Quibdò (Agenzia Fides) - "On several occasions we have drawn attention to the difficulties that many people are experiencing in the Pacific and Southwest region and we have asked the Colombian state for a global solutio ...
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  10 January 2020
  AMERICA - Message from CELAM: "Let us walk and pray together for peace in the world" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We join together in prayer with the Pope, we reject all forms of violence and social division, and we ask the great nations of the world, in particular their rulers, for mutual respect, harmony ...
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  9 January 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Assembly of Bishops examines the ecclesial and socio-political reality; call for respect for the National Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - While the ordinary plenary assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) is taking place, the 41 Bishops of the various ecclesiastical circumscriptions of the country have published a ...
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  9 January 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops appeal at the beginning of the year: let us stop war and violence, the result of intolerance and interests Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico launch an appeal "to stop the violence caused by the intolerance of ideas and the struggle of the interests with each other", in a message published on January 8 with t ...
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  8 January 2020
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - The earth does not stop shaking, destruction and fear everywhere Ponce (Agenzia Fides) - The land of the island of Puerto Rico continues to tremble due to a series of earthquakes that have taken place since the end of December, and the population sleeps outside their home, in cars or ...
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  8 January 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Gualberti: "the right of citizenship to Jesus Christ must be restored" Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians are facing the great challenge of giving back the right of citizenship to Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man for the good of all humanity, because his presence has ...
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  7 January 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Card. Brenes asks to continue to work for the release of all political prisoners and for peace Managua (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to "those with social and political influence" to continue to work to ensure that all "people deprived of their freedom" are released in 2020, was addressed by Cardinal Leopoldo Br ...
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  7 January 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - "We must be the builders of the civilization of love": young people on mission in the country during the holidays Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,500 young people arrived on Saturday 4 January at the San Joaquin campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, full of enthusiasm to dedicate their summer holidays, just s ...
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  3 January 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Year of fraternity in the Archdiocese of Popayan: personal, social and ecological conversion Popayán (Agenzia Fides) - "The year of fraternity is an opportunity to heal wounds, grow in mutual trust, celebrate unity, starting at home, fraternize in neighborhoods and on the streets. It is a year to promote the cu ...
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  3 January 2020
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Assembly of Bishops: renewal of CELAM and Mesoamerican ecological ecclesial network Panama city (Agenzia Fides) - The Panamanian Bishops will meet for their ordinary plenary assembly number 2011, which will take place from Monday 6 to Friday 10 January 2020. The Panamanian Episcopal Conference (CEP) inf ...
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  2 January 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Te Deum for Independence Day canceled, the President announces changes Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Without a statement agreed between civil authorities and religious leaders, in Haiti the first day of the new year, the country's Independence Day from France, on January 1, 1804, the usu ...
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  23 December 2019
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops' appeal against violence and corruption: a truce for Christmas Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "To those who want to kill, we ask at least a truce for Christmas": said Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, in a mass celebrated yesterday, December 22, in which he launched a hea ...
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  21 December 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Christmas, an opportunity to "rekindle hope in a country that suffers" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Christmas is an opportunity to strengthen hope", given the "critical situation that worsens every day in Venezuela": said Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop emeritus of Caracas, noting tha ...
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  19 December 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catholic organizations dealing with migrants give life to the Chilean section of Red Clamor Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "We meet today, December 18, the day in which the United Nations Organization called for the International Day of Migrants. We chose this date because, with this act and the signing of this agr ...