America

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  16 January 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - UN and Catholic Church committed to re-launching the Government-ELN peace talks Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has appealed to the Colombian government and ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) to end "armed actions" and re-launch "serious ...
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  15 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Puerto Maldonado, a historic meeting that will give more visibility to the natives of the Amazon Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has always had special attention and affection towards the Amazon and its inhabitants, especially the native peoples. The encyclical Laudato Sì or the creation of the Pana ...
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  12 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Jesuit Fernando Montes: the strategy of tension that obscures the "Mapuche issue" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The episodes of violence recorded in recent years and connected to the "Mapuche issue", including the fires of Catholic and Evangelical churches, have the effect of sabotaging every se ...
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  12 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - 30 years after the last visit of a Pope in the Country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Peru is a country where the arrival of Pope Francis generates great expectation for its very high religiosity. This is something that the Pope will be able to verify, and I think he will be very h ...
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  11 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Volunteers for the Pope: "A generation characterized by the spirit of service" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "The enthusiastic response of the Pope's volunteers was a great surprise for Chile and for her Church", says to Fides Francisco Elorrieta, vice director of the Volunteering Department for the Pop ...
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  11 January 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro: he continues to inspire Nicaraguans in a Christian way 40 years after his assassination Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We all remember Pedro Joaquín Chamorro as someone close and concerned about others, especially the poorest and those who suffer most. He also risked many times in order to allow Nicaraguans to ...
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  10 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Executive secretary for the "Mapuche pastoral": we do not expect political solutions to our problems from the Pope Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Mapuche are waiting for Pope Francis "to bless us, to strengthen our faith". They hope his homilies will favor "social peace". But they do not expect political solutions from him to ...
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  10 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Fr. Dario Bossi: "Mining activities weigh on the lives of indigenous communities: the Pope will not be deaf to this problem" Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - "The letter we sent to Pope Francis is very clear, as he goes into details, he explains to what extent the impact of mining affects the lives of the simplest and smallest, in particular th ...
• 10 January 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Jerzy Marian Faliszek, SVD Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 30, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Jerzy Marian Faliszek, of the Society of the Divine Word ...
• 9 January 2018
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Esteban Kross Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Esteban Ramon Kross, of the diocesan clergy of Paramaribo (Suriname) a ...
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  9 January 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Salvadorans without protection in America, the Church will not abandon separated families Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision to terminate TPS for El Salvador is heartbreaking". As detailed in our recent delegation trip report to the region, El Salvador is currently not in a position to adequately hand ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The country has been experiencing a critical social situation for 50 days: a new strike El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - "What are we doing to make the population receive true justice?" asked Mgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of the diocese of El Alto and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. "Befo ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - 300 thousand rosaries made with commitment and hope by prisoners for the Pope's visit Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, prisoners of twelve Peruvian prisons made about 300 thousand rosaries. This initiative of the National Penitentiary Institute, in coordination with the Archdiocese of Lima, will ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentine faithful will be present during the Pope's visit to Chile Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentineans will greet and show their affection to Pope Francis in Chile. Proximity encourages compatriots of the first South American Pontiff to cross the Andes cordillera and partici ...
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  5 January 2018
  AMERICA - In Chile and Peru, private meetings of indigenous representatives with the Pope Temuco (Chile) - In the next visit to Chile and Peru (January 15 to 21), on two occasions the Pope will have lunch, in private, with a small group of representatives of the indigenous peoples, historically persecuted, di ...