America

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  9 August 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 60 per cent of Guatemalans live in poverty Ciudad de Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - The scenario of inequality, racism, poverty and undernourishment in Guatemala is evident. Of the at least 16 million people living in this Latin American country, 60% suffer conditi ...
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  8 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Promote real integration for migrants in Chile” demands Cardinal Ezzati Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – "It is important to accept migrants, but this is not sufficient, we must integrate with them, and this means making laws to foster genuine integration with relative respect for human rights", ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTORICO - Collecting shoes to enable children in Haiti to go to school San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – The We All Care, Inc non-profit organization has launched an appeal to people in Puerto Rico to get together to collect shoes for needy children aged 3 to 9 in Haiti. On that Caribbean islan ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Funds assigned for the Catholic Church in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The United States Catholic Bishops Conference (USCCB), by means of its Commission for the Latin American Churches has assigned a sum of almost 6 million dollars: 4 to support the pastoral ...
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  5 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO -“We are grateful to Congress for approving funds for the poorest of the poor” San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – We are grateful that Congress has approved a law which foresees a process to restructure the Island’s debt” say Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves of San Juan de Puerto Rico and Rever ...
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  4 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On August 4, Bishop Enrique Angelelli, committed to the poor was killed La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 1976, Father Arturo Pinto and Mgr. Angelelli were returning from a celebration in honor of two priests killed. Along the way to Cordoba, two cars approached them and crushed agains ...
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  4 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops: "We will not be a different Country unless we overcome naivety, passivity and indifference" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not be a different Country unless we overcome naivety, passivity and indifference", concludes the final message of the meeting of the Pastoral Care for Social Action of the National Bi ...
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  3 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Human Rights International Film Festival brings together new directors Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - Cinema creates a space to give way to the creativity of new film directors. With this aim, the Bogotá Human Rights International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Latin American Rule of ...
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  3 August 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The priest wounded on May 15 in Mexico’s city Metropolitan Cathedral has died Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "On Wednesday, August 2, the medical director of the Intensive Care Unit of the National Institute of Medical Science (INCM) announced that Father José Miguel Machorro has a brain death sit ...
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  2 August 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Caravan of Friendship of the Pastors for Peace arrives in Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - This year, the 28th Caravan of the United States-Cuba Friendship also landed on the Caribbean island. As part of its agenda, the group will tour several Cuban provinces and meet with people, chur ...
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  1 August 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - A missionary donates a new tabernacle to the parish of San José de Los Llanos San José de Los Llanos (Agenzia Fides) - About two months ago, the tabernacle was desecrated and taken away in the parish of San José de Los Llanos. On July 30, Father Christopher Hartley, a diocesan missionary in Tole ...
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  31 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops on the violent day of the election: "Useless, unnecessary, and damaging to the people" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Useless, unnecessary and damaging to the Venezuelan people", this statement was repeated many times yesterday in the many demonstrations that took place on the election day to elect the members ...
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  31 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Day against trafficking: Mgr. Noriega recalls the 10 dead immigrants in the truck Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the diocese of Zacatecas, Mgr. Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, during his homily on Sunday, July 30, recalled the young man who died in a truck in Texas, in an attempt to find a jo ...
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  31 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - During summer courses children also learn to know Jesus Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - In Ecuador, the Evangelical Church has promoted summer courses for children where the Word of God is also taught. According to the statement by the local Christian Summer School Coordinator, 5 ...
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  29 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Five priests stop the tanks of the National Guard in Ejido Ejido (Agenzia Fides) - The priests of the Catholic Church spoke yesterday July 28 with regards to a confrontation between the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) and demonstrators in the city of Ejido, in the state of Méri ...