America

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  14 July 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop denounces: The health of the population in jeopardy due to mining activities La Oroya (Agenzia Fides) - After the government reduced the environmental quality standards (ECA) to facilitate the sale of the metallurgical complex of La Oroya, the Archbishop of Huancayo, Mgr. Pedro Barreto Jimeno, SJ ...
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  14 July 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mgr. de la Rosa y Carpio: need to fight mafia groups of illegal immigration Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Emeritus Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Mgr. Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio, in a brief interview with the local press said that until mafia groups composed of Dominicans and for ...
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  13 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Labor reform approved, despite the opposition of the Church and other institutions Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Senate approved Michel Temer's labor reform: 50 votes in favor and 26 against. The text, which has caused countless demonstrations and three general strikes, aims to modernize the B ...
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  13 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Radio station for human rights: a window for activism Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Humano Derecho Radio Estación radio has just launched a radio channel, a new alternative means of communication dedicated to human rights and the involvement of Venezuelan citizens. The initiat ...
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  13 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Urgent Message of the Bishops to Catholics and people of good will Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference held in Caracas from 7 to 12 July (see Fides 07/07/2017; 11/07/2017), the Bishops issued an "Urgent message ...
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  12 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The diocese of Copiapó informs foreign workers of their rights Copiapó (Agenzia Fides) - The Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe House of Migrant in Copiapó hosted a conference on the rights of foreign workers residing in the Chilean region of Atacama, promoted by the Pastoral Ministry f ...
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  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Mgr. Byron Heralda Chevannes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 24, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of Mgr. Byron Heralda Chevannes, of the diocese of Ju ...
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  12 July 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 60 percent of young people are poor: "We are all responsible", says Mgr. Martin Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - If 58.7 percent of young people under the age of 18 are poor, "it is clear that this is a sign of something that could not be solved". "We all are responsible, in one way or another, although we ...
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  11 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - About 869,000 children work during the night recycling materials of all kinds Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor exploitation in Colombia is punishable: from 3 to 7 years in prison. According to the police which deals with the country's childhood and adolescent, about 869,000 children work ...
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  11 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Letter to President Maduro from the Bishops gathered in Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – In order to resolve the serious food and drug crisis, and the insecurity that is causing innumerable victims throughout the country, it is urgent: "To recognize the autonomy of all public powe ...
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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Mgr. Paz denounces: "Mining activity leaves only contaminated water and fields" Palo Quemado (Agenzia Fides) - "Farmers in Palo Quemado have to face the environmental impact caused by mining activity in the area, especially water and contaminated fields", denounces Mgr. Geovanni Mauricio Paz Hurtado ...
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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Another peasant killed for land conflict, a national policy is lacking Parà (Agenzia Fides) - Just over a month after the massacre of 10 peasants in Pau D'arco, in the Brazilian state of Para (see Fides 26/05/2017), another rural worker was killed in the same region. On Friday, July 7 Rose ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest brutally killed in his parish Nezahualcóyotl (Agenzia Fides) - "With great pain and dismay we inform of the death of our diocesan priest Luis Lopez Villa, 71, who on July 5 was killed by criminals who managed to break into San Isidro Labrador Parish ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: to support the people of God in these difficult moments Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From July 7 to 12, the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), attended by 50 Bishops from the 45 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, will be held in Carac ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Indigenous delegations to the Ministry of Justice: We are experiencing great difficulties Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 July, the delegations of the Pataxó, Tupinambá and Kaingang peoples submitted requests to the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, to the Federal Senate Commission for Human Rights and to th ...