America

• 18 December 2018
  AMERICA/ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Saint John's Basseterre Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Robert A. Llanos, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Port of Spain and Apostolic Administrator of Saint John's Basseterre as Bishop of Saint John' ...
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  18 December 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Security in Guerrero cannot be entrusted to armed civilians, it is urgent to create a "national police" Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The security in the state of Guerrero cannot be left "in the hands of armed civilians", it is necessary to create a national police that is militarized, to ensure the safety of citizens: the Ar ...
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  14 December 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES Solidarity of US Catholics helps brothers and sisters in Latin America and the Caribbean Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America awarded over $3.2 million in funding for 173 grants to support the pastoral work of the Churc ...
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  7 December 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Jesuit project: providing aid for migrants and fighting xenophobia Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Material assistance while fighting a cultural battle against rising xenophobia: these are the pillars of a project to assist Venezuelans fleeing their country launched by the Jesuits in Latin A ...
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  7 December 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - San Felipe de Jesús Foundation pulls children away from streets, mafia and exploiters Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Street children are "invisible: no one sees them", says Rev Francisco Crisanto, diocesan priest and director of the Foundation “Fondazione San Felipe de Jesús” FSFJ, which years a ...
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  6 December 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Year of the Laity closes and lay mission in the society and civil participation begins. Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of the Laity "has been a time of grace dedicated to reflection on the mission of lay Catholics not only among and with the laity but together with the whole Church ", and it will co ...
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  6 December 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Priest attacked in the cathedral with sulfuric acid Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 5 December in the afternoon, rev Mario Guevara, aged 59 vicar of Managua Cathedral, suffered a sulfuric acid attack when a 24 year old woman threw the acid on the priest’s fac ...
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  5 December 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Congress of missionary communicators: all round evangelisation must use the media Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) – An intervention by the Archbishop of Aparecida, Mons. Orlando Brandes, opened in Brazil the first Congress of missionary communicators with the slogan “Evangelizing on the new Media fronti ...
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  3 December 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Central American Bishops reflect on youth, migrants and environment; and express solidarity with Nicaragua Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Young people in keeping with the recent Synod of Bishops and the imminent World Youth Day to be celebrated in Panama in the coming January, were the focus of the annual assembly of th ...
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  1 December 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Expo: spotlight on evangelisation Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) – To make known the Church’s activity and missionary work in society the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Colombia is organising an event called Expocattolica, to take place 7 to 10 March ...
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  30 November 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops address situation of violence: “we are working tirelessly for social justice and peace” Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – "Social Peace, fruit of justice and conversion of heart", is the title of a text issued yesterday by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay CEP, denouncing "grave acts of crimina ...
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  29 November 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Continent of starving masses and economic potential to defeat poverty hosts G20 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Drug addiction and endless social crises were the topics discussed yesterday 28 November at the Offices of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Argentina by two Bishops representing the Bis ...
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  26 November 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Venezuelan exodus continues: the reception of Catholic volunteers to alleviate hunger Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - While the eyes of the world are turned towards the situation of tension created on the southern border of the United States for the arrival of the caravans of the Central American migrants waitin ...
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  24 November 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA- Migrant caravans on the US border: the action of the Central American Church Over 4,000 Central American migrants have arrived - and others are arriving - in Tijuana, on the border with the United States, after a long walk from their countries of origin. They are the first group of the three cara ...
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  24 November 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Young Panamanians continue their journey in preparation for WYD 2019 Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - Less than 60 days before the beginning of World Youth Day (WYD) that will take place in Panama from 22 to 27 January 2019, and after the announcement of the official agenda of Pope Francis f ...