America

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  18 January 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "total rejection of any form of terrorism and violence" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) strongly rejects the recent terrorist act that occurred at the "General Santander" National Police School in Bogotá, which caused 21 deaths and at lea ...
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  17 January 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Young representatives of indigenous peoples bring their expectations and hopes to WYD Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - 2019 World Youth Day will bring together young people from all over the world in Panama from 22 to 27 January. Among them are eight young Brazilian natives, representatives of different peoples a ...
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  15 January 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - The work of the Assembly of Bishops begins: "Synodality belongs to the whole Church" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 49 Peruvian Bishops yesterday inaugurated their 113th Plenary Assembly with a Mass celebrated in the parish of San Antonio de Padua, district of Jesus Maria, in Lima. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, Archbish ...
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  15 January 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Presentation of the logo for the beatification of the martyrs of La Rioja, "the joy of the whole people" La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentine diocese of La Rioja presented the logo and the theme of the beatification of Mgr. Enrique Angelelli, of the priests Carlos Murias ofm and Gabriel Longueville and of layman Wencesl ...
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  14 January 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - WYD in Panama, an opportunity make the Amazon and the Amazonian face of young Brazilians known Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Panama will host the World Youth Day (WYD) from 22 to 27 January. One of the participants is Aylla Emanuele Silveira, a young 21-year-old woman who will represent the Magis House of Manaus and ha ...
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  14 January 2019
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: no to the privatization of water, unjust fiscal and pension system San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar, invited Salvadorans to vote responsibly in the presidential elections on 3 February. "Very soon there will be elections, and we must ...
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  11 January 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Secure borders and humane treatment of those fleeing persecution and seeking a better life are not mutually exclusive. Newark (Agenzia Fides) - In the message to the nation on Tuesday 8 January on the issue of migrants at the border, Donald Trump, President of the United States, attacked Central American migrants trying to enter the coun ...
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  11 January 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: the already fragile State of law in the Country is in danger, it is necessary to respect the Constitution Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Huge concern and great indignation in the face of the events which took place in past days", were expressed by the Bishops of Guatemala in a statement signed on 10 January by the Preside ...
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  10 January 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops seek to create spaces of encounter, dialogue and peace Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is constantly faced with various trials and difficulties, there are few job and education opportunities, high insecurity, including the uncertainty and expectations that come wi ...
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  8 January 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nicaragua crisis returns to OAS on January 11 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), after Mass last Sunday, 6 January, said that it will be necessary to analyze and imp ...
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  8 January 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Priest stabbed by thieves who entered the parish Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Adam Bravo Mendoza, 78-year-old diocesan priest, of La Santa Cruz parish in the city of Trinidad, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in Bolivia, was stabbed by some criminals who tried to ...
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  7 January 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - After 525 years, faith must always be "announced with courage and lived with love" Puerto Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The many sufferings of the Haitian people who continue to suffer are reason of concern. Haitians have been welcomed by the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic "because they are brothe ...
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  5 January 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in America: the benefits of the proclamation of the Gospel are still lived today Puerto Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church concludes today, Saturday, January 5, 2019, the celebrations of the 525th anniversary of the first Mass in the American continent, officiated in Isabela, Puerto Plata, o ...
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  4 January 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Inculturation of the liturgy and the indigenous reality of the Amazon São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis insists on the fact that the local Church must have an Amazonian and indigenous face. To achieve this goal a process of inculturation is needed, one of the possibl ...
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  3 January 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishop of Gonaives calls Haitians to work to save the nation from the evils that afflict it Gonaives (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2019 Haiti celebrated the 215th anniversary of independence. On this occasion, the traditional "Te Deum" was celebrated in the Cathedral of Gonaïves, the capital of the Artibonite ...