America

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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - State resources must be used to alleviate the suffering of the poorest people Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to take urgent measures so that state funds are mainly allocated to implement social policies that respond to the basic and real needs of the population, such as health, education and h ...
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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop Lozano: "The month of October ends, but not the mission" San Juan de Cuyo (Agenzia Fides) - "October is abount to end, a month dedicated above all to renew ourselves in the conscience and missionary commitment ... October ends, mission no, because it is permanent, it is in the ...
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  30 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration, both in Central America and in Mexico, is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption", reads the editorial of th ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops on the consultation for the new Constitution: conscious and responsible participation of all Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In a long and articulated pastoral Letter just published, the Episcopal Conference of Cuba has expressed itself on the project of the new Constitution of the country which, at the end of the revi ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth and migrants: the response of the Church of Belem on the path towards the 2019 Synod Belem (Agenzia Fides) - A big center for youth Pastoral care, where promoting human and integral formation of young people, is the response of the diocese of Belem, one of the great metropolises of the Amazon, to the gre ...
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  26 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - US Commission for religious freedom: "The Church in Nicaragua must be protected, not aggressively attacked" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Samuel D. Brownback, said that "the situation of the Catholic clergy in Nicaragua is not acceptable" and believes tha ...
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  25 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fr. Narváez: "Patience and forgiveness are needed for lasting peace" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is erroneously believed that forgiveness is only a religious or spiritual resource, but forgiveness is also a political virtue". With this vision, the Foundation for Reconciliation (FR), fou ...
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  24 October 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops and the "human tragedy" of the caravan: "we were deaf to the cries of their rights" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Honduras are concerned about the serious migration crisis of thousands of Hondurans who are leaving the country. The caravan now has arrived in Mexico, and the US government h ...
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  24 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On April 27, 2019 the beatification of Mgr. Angelelli, two priests and a layman in La Rioja La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification ceremony of Monsignor Enrique Angelelli, of priests Carlos Murias and Gabriel Longueville and of the layman Wenceslao Pedernera, killed during the dictatorship, in the summer ...
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  23 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Listening to the cries of the brother for us Christians means commitment and action" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "The cries of the poor", the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) has just published a letter to remind the Mexican community that the Catholic Church, at the invitation of Po ...
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  23 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Victims of conflict, migrants, social leaders in danger: Colombian Bishops call for collaboration in Europe Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The European Parliament, the French Parliament, the British Government, the Commissions of the Episcopates of the European Union, France, England and Wales, Internationalis and German Caritas, as ...
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  22 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and freedom": the requests of the population resound in the Cathedral of Managua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - For three weeks now, the military forces of the government have tightened controls on the protest marches of the population, preventing any kind of public demonstration in the streets of the cap ...
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  20 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Honduran march to the USA continues. Trump: the army will close the borders San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 thousand Hondurans arrived yesterday, 19 October, on the border with Mexico from Honduras. The Mexican government had announced, like those of El Salvador and Guatema ...
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  17 October 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We are not criminals, we are migrants": three thousand Hondurans fleeing their country San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - They have now traveled about 300 km, from Tegucigalpa (Honduras) to Zacapa (Guatemala): there are about three thousand Hondurans who during their their journey to the United States welco ...
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  16 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Presidential run-off, the Church: "Need to protect the Constitution and democracy" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Constitution is intended to ensure the exercise of social and individual rights, as supreme values of a fraternal, plural society and without prejudices", and today the Charter "is affecte ...