America

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  4 January 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 2017 "Annus horribilis" for the Amazon. The denunciation of Cardinal Hummes and Bishop Erwin Krautler Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Amazon has been transformed into a land without law or without the rule of law, at the mercy of the arrogance of those who have money and power, and where the political, judiciary and law ...
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  29 December 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Salvadoran Church suffers due to the drama of many emigrants: appeal to the United States for the TPS San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly urge the president of the United States (Donald Trump), the Congress and all the authorities of that great nation, that on this significant date of Christmas they should see to ...
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  29 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 3,000 cases of violence against women in Puno region Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The National Program Against Family and Sexual Violence of the Ministry of Women has released a report informing that up to the month of November, 3 thousand 327 cases of violence were recorded in ...
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  28 December 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - One of the 19,000 volunteers preparing the Pope's visit: "an unforgettable experience" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "Being a papal volunteer is an invitation to be builders of a more beautiful Church and a better world" says Francisca José Miranda, one of the thousands of volunteers who came to hel ...
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  28 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru's President pardons Alberto Fujimori. Heated protests in the country, even for the Bishops it is inappropriate Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Disappointment, in addition to political confusion, is the climate that reigns in Peru after President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardons ex-president Alberto Fujimori condemned and in prison for "cri ...
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  22 December 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops and Catholic partners urge extension of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, Texas, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, was joined by Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Catholi ...
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  15 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - The Amazon and its inhabitants are protagonists of the Pope’s visit to Peru Puerto Maldonado (Peru) - The Amazon will be protagonist in the next apostolic visit of Pope Francis to Peru (18-21 January 2018). "For one day, January 19, Puerto Maldonado will be transformed into a large ecological su ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Court rules on Chiapas: peace on the horizon, humanitarian emergency remains San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is much closer in Chiapas. Yesterday afternoon the Agricultural Court issued a final decision on the process for the conflict of territorial boundaries between the munic ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Two dancers of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe killed, meaningless violence Ciudad Juárez (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no respect for anyone, it is the extreme of evil, how dare they?" asked the Bishop of the diocese of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Mexico), Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, in a ...
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  12 December 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Indigenous theologian: "Ecology of hearts, according to Laudato Sì" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The profound indigenous spirituality, in its harmonious relationship with all creation, sees in the care of the common home a responsibility for future generations.The bond of relationship b ...
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  12 December 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop Baez: "Paralyzed by fear, we are getting used to physical and moral violence" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "There is paralysis due to fear. There are people who are paralyzed by fear, unable to speak or express their outrage because of injustices and abuses of civil and military authorities", denounc ...
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  11 December 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Appeal of religious leaders: "No to new taxes, otherwise the recovery will be impossible" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "If Congress treats American citizens living in Puerto Rico differently from American citizens living in the 50 States, considering our island as a foreign jurisdiction, we believe that the r ...
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  7 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops' reflection: "Internal security law" Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to adequately train federal, state and municipal police in order to put an end to insecurity in Mexico, but this goal has failed, there are no trained and efficient police. ...
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  5 December 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic politicians of Latin America: "We ask for a more fraternal civilization" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The scourge of corruption is the most damaging for our peoples of Latin America, public corruption erodes societies, injustice and the lack of unity increase in industrialized countries, the gl ...
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  5 December 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assassination of the missionary Vicente Cañas: executioner condemned Cuiabá (Agenzia Fides) - The only accused survivor, Ronaldo Antônio Osmar, former civil police delegate, accused of participating in the murder of the Spanish Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas, in April 1987, was found ...