America

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  29 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest killed in Puerto Valdivia, "sacrificed in the exercise of his mission" Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Colombia joins the pain of the assassination of Fr. Diomer Eliver Chavarría Pérez, killed on the day of his 31st birthday, on the evening of July 27, in the parish ...
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  28 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Christian-Jewish group launches fundraiser for "Persecuted Christians" Chicago (Agenzia Fides) -The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, with headquarters in Chicago and Jerusalem, has launched a fundraising initiative to aid Christians and other persecuted minorities in the Mid ...
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  28 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops call for non-violence and appeal to law enforcement: "Your role is to maintain peace" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "In a few hours the constituent National Assembly elections will be held and the President of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference reiterates his rejection with regards to this initiative, conside ...
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  28 July 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Mgr. Piñeiro during the national holiday: need to intervene and be severe against corruption Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The national holiday that reminds us of one of the greatest aspirations of Peruvians, independence of living in freedom and democracy, this year has a special blessing: the upcoming visit of Pope ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - A church burned in Mapuches conflict area in Chile Vilcun (Agenzia Fides) – An evangelical church has been burned to the ground along the road from Cajon to Vilcun. According to a note by Radio Bio Bio, sent to Fides, the arson attack happened late Tuesday, July 25. ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Hundreds of children wear fancy-dresses for the Santiago Wanka feast Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – The schoolchildren of seven school institutes gave life to the start of the traditional Santiago Wanka feast in Huancayo province. With great enthusiasm, hundreds of children represented the ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue on illegal mining, a first positive approach Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) – The meeting between Colombian Minister for Mining and Energy Carlos Andrés Cante and the Catholic Bishops held on 24 July in order to clarify the main points of this activity in different p ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Goic Karmelic's reflection: For a democracy based on values Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - "The debate in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last week, on the abolition of abortion, saddened me with regards to democracy based on values which since my childhood I was taught to nurture ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - In debt with childhood: Dominican children are deprived of their rights Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 13% of minors in the Dominican Republic are forced to work, about 15% do not go to school and 28% are married or cohabit. These alarming data have been reported by the "In Debt with ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A bomb explodes at the entrance of the Episcopal Conference, appeal for calm Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 25, a bomb exploded at the main entrance of the Mexican Episcopal Conference headquarters in Mexico City around 1.50 am, causing some damage but no one was injured. "We appreciate t ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Detroit judge blocks deportation of Iraqi immigrants for 90 days Detroit (Agenzia Fides) – A judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportations of Chaldean Christians and other Iraqi immigrants ordered last June by virtue of the new immigration rules implemented ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops on the decriminalization of abortion: With more force than before, we promote the value of life Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Following the approval of the draft law by the Chilean Senate that decriminalizes the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three particular cases, "there will be laws on euthanasia and so on" ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Thirty years ago the martyrdom of a Spanish Bishop and a Colombian nun who defended the natives Quito (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, what seemed like a friendly encounter in a remote Ecuadoran jungle (today is the province of Orellana) turned out to be the terrible killing of a Spanish Bishop and a Colombian r ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Coloring horror: Children's drawings reflect the violence they live Sacoj Mixco (Agenzia Fides) - Delinquency, drugs, family problems and daily terror: This is how the children in their fifth and sixth year who go to the Primary School of the Educational Center Dr Bloem, in Sacoj Mixco, ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Elizondo on the destruction of a chapel:Security and respect of everybody’s rights Cancun (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal, Mgr. Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, in his homily yesterday said that media sometimes report that evil is winning because bad news is what is m ...