America

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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Soldiers and sailors, anonymous heroes who give hope to citizens scared by violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Mexico is aware of the fact that at the moment our country is experiencing a crisis, where crime impoverishes the nation, because of criminal organizations that have expanded ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Trafficking, sexual abuse and early marriages: girls are the main victims Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - In northern Mexico, 3 out of four children, victims of sexual exploitation, are forced to marry early, most of them less than 16 years of age. The complaint comes from a study carried out by a g ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas Campaign in view of the annual collection: poor people always on the rise Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Argentina is carrying out a national campaign in view of its annual collection for the needy, inviting to express solidarity through a concrete gesture that effectively helps transf ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops close to the suffering and uncertainty of Venezuelans Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "In these difficult moments of the life of Venezuelan people, we are not alien to the suffering and uncertainty that Venezuelans live", writes the President of the Cuban episcopal Conference His ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Huatla launches drought alert in Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - After more than 20 days without rain, the Mazateca region is going through the worst crisis ever suffered as a result of drought, along with the lack of medical services. This situation has alrea ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Alarm for the death for malnutrition of 8 children in a week La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - Between 14 and 20 May eight new cases of deaths were reported for malnutrition and, according to the National Institute of Health, 40% of them in Chocó and la Guajira. In the departments of ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priests in Guayana: "We cannot keep silent in the face of repression" Guyana (Agenzia Fides) - Priests and deacons of the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela) wrote a letter to the "pilgrim people of our beloved land and to all men of good will" to express a profound rejection of every ex ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Robles Ortega asks for clarification on the murder of two indigenous wixarika leaders Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, after Sunday Mass yesterday asked to clarify the events related to the assassination of indigenous leaders of Wixarika ...
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  26 May 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 10 people killed in a clash with the police for land dispute Belem (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 people were killed during a clash with the police in the state of Para, northern Brazil, on May 24. The Department of Public Security announced that nine men and a woman died during a ...
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  26 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA -Redemptorists: "Our prophetic vocation leads us to denounce violence and clashes among brothers" Marianella (Agenzia Fides) - "Our prophetic vocation leads us to denounce intolerance, the use of violence, clashes among brothers, imposition with force, fear, persecution and arrest: contrary to the dignity of every pe ...
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  24 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa invokes the appeal of Blessed Romero: "Please, I beg you, I order you to stop the repression!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The Day of Prayer for Peace in Venezuela was held in all the dioceses of the country on May 21, to ask the Lord for the solution regarding the political and economic problem, to put a stop to v ...
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  24 May 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Infant deaths for pneumonia are due to poverty and precariousness Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The main cause of death among children for pneumonia is determined by the level of poverty that the population lives in addition to the poor diet of children. The alarm was launched by the director ...
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  23 May 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Hundreds of thousands of casualties caused by El Niño costero Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The general toll of the latest floods and landslides in Peru has resulted in 145 deaths, 18 missing, 438 injured, over 235,000 casualties and more than a million people affected. The figures date b ...
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  23 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 81 children have died of malnutrition since the beginning of the year La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - The National Institute of Health (INS) has recently announced the death toll for malnutrition since the beginning of the year. We are talking about 81 children under 5 years of age. In additi ...
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  23 May 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops thank the government for helping Haitians who live in the United States Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Commission for Migrations of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Mgr. Joe Steve Vásquez, Bishop of Austin, Texas, expressed his appreciation to the Secretary ...