America

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  7 December 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Jesuit Bartomeu Melià, great expert in language and culture of the Guaraní indigenous people, has died Asunciòn (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, December 6, Jesuit father Bartomeu Melià died in Asunción. Born in Porreras, on the island of Majorca, in 1932, he arrived in Paraguay in 1954, and since then he began studying th ...
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  7 December 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian Missionaries Ad Gentes prepare to go to America, Africa and Europe Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There were about thirty participants, among religious, priests, seminarians and lay people, in the Ad gentes course that ended yesterday, addressed to the missionaries who are preparing to go ...
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  6 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Sixteen million Argentines are poor, the Church calls for a social pact to assist them Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Commission for social pastoral care, presided over by Mgr. Jorge Rubén Lugones, SJ, Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, on Wednesday, December 4 received the representatives of the "Me ...
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  6 December 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Beatification of Bishop Fulton Sheen postponed Peoria (Agenzia Fides) - "With deep regret, Bishop Daniel Jenky, C.S.C, Bishop of Peoria, announces that he has been informed by the Holy See that the beatification of Fulton Sheen will be postponed", this is the stateme ...
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  5 December 2019
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We must continue to fight corruption", said Mgr. Garachana Pérez, supporting the renewal of MACCIH San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the expiry of the "MACCIH" agreement (Misión de Apoyo Contra la Corrupción and Impunidad en Honduras), signed between the government of Honduras and the Organization of ...
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  5 December 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Complaints and hopes of young Paraguayans at the end of the Youth Triennium: "Yes to life, yes to Jesus" Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot remain ignorant to the different realities that influence the lives of many Paraguayans, for this reason, as young people we denounce: the corrupt attitude of many political leaders ...
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  4 December 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - Chaos and violence, an injured woman praying in church: testimony of a missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Chaos, fear, confusion, insecurity not only in streets but everywhere: this is the situation that the Haitian people live in these days of constant demonstrations against the authorities. ...
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  3 December 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops: "it is unacceptable that some live in arrogant and scandalous opulence and the majority languish in shameful poverty" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - As preparation for the Christmas celebration, the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Haiti have published a message asking the authorities and opposition leaders to be self-critical a ...
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  3 December 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Local teams, advocacy, networking: the priorities of the Pastoral Care Service for Migrants Luziânia (Agenzia Fides) - Organizing local teams, in particular involving young people; intensifying “advocacy” actions and presence in public policy councils to safeguard the rights of migrants and refugees; stren ...
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  2 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "The episcopate does not exist to please the aspirations of personalities, but to guide the flock" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We must not satisfy the desires of personalities" declared Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, after the midday mass celebrated in the cathedral, thus responding to the words prono ...
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  2 December 2019
  AMERICA - Bishops of SEDAC: "Let us walk together with the Lord as witnesses of hope" Heredia (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly reaffirm that migrants and refugees are our brothers who deserve respect, care, protection and security because they have the right to do so. We will continue to offer them shelter, ...
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  30 November 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Drugs and drug addiction in Latin America: models of ecclesial community intervention Latin America is the land of cocaine and marihuana. Colombia, Peru and Bolivia are the world's largest producers of cocaine, while the major marihuana crops are in Mexico and Paraguay (in addition to Peru and Bolivia). F ...
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  28 November 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Marian Year begins on December 8, in which the 500 years of the first Argentine Mass will be celebrated Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, November 27, the Argentine Bishops officially announced the opening of the National Marian Year, next December 8, the solemnity of the Imma ...
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  27 November 2019
  AMERICA - Bishops of Central America gathered for the SEDAC Assembly San José (Agenzia Fides) - "It is up to the Bishops to mark the way and show with their attitudes how synodality is lived", recalled Cardinal José Luis Lacunza, O.A.R. Bishop of the Diocese of David, in Panama, to the ...
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  27 November 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops: "For the good of our country: dialogue, reconciliation and integral development" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia, "for the good of our country", call for dialogue, reconciliation and integral development, in order to promote extraordinary days of prayer and intercession in parishes ...