America

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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - After 46 years, investigations into the death of Bishop Carlos Ponce de Leon are reopened Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Appeal of Rosario overturned a 1978 judgment that caused the death of Bishop Carlos Horacio Ponce de León of San Nicolas classified as the result of a road accident. This a ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Growing up (and studying) in the Peruvian Amazon. The boys and girls of the “St. Clotilde Boarding School” St. Clotilde (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than two hundred boys and girls will attend the “St. Clotilde Boarding School”: 114 girls and 98 boys. For ten months a year the boarding school becomes their home. They ...
• 28 February 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 26, 2023, after an interim period (see Fides, 28/10/2022), Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed His Exc. Msgr. Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Meyer, Auxiliary Bishop of the Ar ...
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  28 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Claretian missionary kidnapped in Haiti released Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "On February 17, after 10 days of kidnapping, he miraculously escaped from his captors", reports to Fides Father Fausto Cruz Rosa cmf, Superior of the Claretian Missionaries of the Antill ...
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  27 February 2023
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Independence Day: Bishops want more honesty and justice in today's society Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us be honest and do justice" is the title of the message that the Dominican Bishops' Conference traditionally publishes on February 27th on the occasion of the 179th anniversary of in ...
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  24 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Chaotic conditions: There has been no news of Father Noah since the kidnapping two weeks ago Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti is marked by hunger, violence, cholera and political instability. The Caribbean island is now a shattered country without institutions, with a starving population and armed gangs th ...
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  21 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Death of the bishop of Los Angeles: housekeeper's husband arrested Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The Los Angeles County authorities have arrested the husband of a woman who worked as a housekeeper for Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, who was found dead in his home in Hacienda Height ...
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  20 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - David O'Connell, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, shot dead Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 18 February the Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, David O'Connell, died in Hacienda Heights. The news was confirmed by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez who emphasizes ...
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  18 February 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Alarm over the trafficking of Russian women who emigrate to Argentina to give birth Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "I am leaving for Argentina. We help people to move to Argentina, obtain permanent residence and passport, which opens visa-free entry to 170 countries around the world", announced RuArgent ...
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  14 February 2023
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Apostolic Vicariate of Caroni: “An exciting mission” Bolívar (Agenzia Fides) - "In these first hundred years since the canonical establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní, the Capuchins have carried out a difficult and exciting mission. They have devoted almost ...
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  13 February 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Pope Francis: "Peace is born of truth, justice, freedom and love and is achieved through patient dialogue" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The news from Nicaragua has saddened me a great deal, and I cannot but remember with concern Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, whom I care about greatly, sentenced to 26 years imprisonment, an ...
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  10 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Ruthless violence against the defenseless. Missionary kidnapped, Brazilian nuns attacked Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We hoped that the situation would improve, instead, after a pause at Christmas everything exploded again", Father Antonio Menegòn, a Camillian missionary (MI) tells Fides. The priest re ...
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  10 February 2023
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops on the current situation: “We must not get used to violence” San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes to justice, to love, to peace", said Pope John Paul II during his visit to Costa Rica on March 3, 1983. It is under this motto that the members of the Costa Rican Bishops' Conference pres ...
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  9 February 2023
  AMERICA - Appeal to young people: “Our time has come! Our commitment is the transformation of society and the construction of the civilization of love” Bogotà (Agenzia Fiudes) - "We want to express our feeling of closeness to the young people of Peru, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico and other countries of the continent; to those who have been suffering the ravages ...
• 8 February 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sister Regina da Costa Pedro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 10, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Sr. Regina Da Costa Padro, of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions ( ...