America

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  31 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - After Church and environmental pressures, the decree on the abolition of Renca blocked Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, August 30, a Brazilian judge, Rolando Spanholo, blocked an attempt by the president, to open up swaths of the Amazon forest to mining companies in a large reserve in the Amazon rainf ...
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  30 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Here I am, send me": month of the Bible in a missionary term Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Several Latin American countries dedicate the month of September, in which the feast of Saint Jerome is celebrated (September 30) whose Vulgate is a Latin translation of the Bible, to a special ...
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  30 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The 30th "Week for Peace" coincides with the Pope’s visit "a friend of peace" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The 2017 edition of the "Week for Peace", to be held in Colombia from 3 to 10 September, coincides this year with two important events for the country: the beginning of consolidating the peace pr ...
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  29 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The relics of Father Ramírez transfered, the Martyr of Armero, the next blessed San Sebastian de La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - A long and crowded procession accompanied the transfer of the relics of Fr. Pedro María Ramírez Ramos, known as "Martyr of Armero", from the main cemetery to the church of Sa ...
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  29 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Repam: incalculable environmental risks and social damage due to the extinction of Renca Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam) rejects the extinction of the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), decided by the government, considering it "a blasphemy of Brazilian de ...
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  28 August 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops establish an Ad Hoc Committee "against the sin of racism" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has established an Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, which will focus on addressing the sin of racism in society, and even in the Churc ...
• 28 August 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 August 2017, Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aguarico, (Ecuador), presented by His Excellency Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, ...
• 28 August 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Camiri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 2, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri (Bolivia) presented by His Exc. Mgr. Francesco Focardi, O.F.M.(SL) (Ag ...
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  28 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Priest killed in his home in Borborema Borborema (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Pedro Gomes Bezerra was found dead in his home in Borborema, in the Brazilian state of Paraibo, on the morning of August 24. The priest's body, wrapped in a sheet, was stabbed at least 2 ...
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  21 August 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Reyes denounces: "37 detainees massacred in a planned manner in Puerto Ayacucho" Puerto Ayacucho (Agenzia Fides) - "These people were massacred in a planned manner", said the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Ayacucho (Venezuela), Mgr. Jonny Eduardo Reyes Sequera, S.D.B. on the massacre last Wednesday in the ...
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  21 August 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "There is no justice in Chaco" denounces the Apostolic Vicar El Chaco (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B., Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo (Paraguay) has denounced the irresponsibility in the judicial management of public defenders who won the competi ...
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  18 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishop of Villarrica demands immediate and definitive end to La Araucania violence Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – As every year on 15 August, thousands gathered all over the country to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, a much loved feast-day for Chilean Catholics. In La Araucanía Catholics working ...
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  17 August 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Assumption, archbishop Valenzuela laments ‘indifference going global!’ Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Crowds of faithful took part in festivities for the annual major holiday to mark the commemoration of the Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Indeed Holy Mary the mother of Jes ...
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  11 August 2017
  UNITED STATES - Thanks to Catholic Bishop Mexican mother may remain in US to care for her daughter El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – A Mexican women, mother of three who risked deportation has been given permission to remain in the United States for another six months, thanks to the intervention of Bishop Mark J. Seitz of ...
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  10 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops: “No nuclear power station in Rio Negro” Neuquen (Agenzia Fides) – During a meeting chaired by Bishop emeritus Virginio Bressanelli diocesan Administrator of Neuquén, the highest Catholic authorities in Patagonia (Argentina) rejected a plan announced by the ...