America

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  23 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Resume dialogue: Mgr. Barreto supports the people who claim fundamental rights Chocò (Agenzia Fides) - "Now or never again! This is what the people in front of the opportunity to talk and deal with the high authorities of the Colombian state say", said Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto Barreto, Bishop of t ...
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  22 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Buenaventura needs structural solutions": Bishop Epalza for dialogue with the government Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "Buenaventura can no longer handle the events of the moment, it needs structural solutions to structural problems. No cotton to buffer the wound, we need to intervene", said Mgr. Héctor Ep ...
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  22 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Day for Peace" celebrated, Cardinal Urosa asks: "Enough violence!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On May 21, after having celebrated the Day of Peace for Venezuela, promoted by the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV), in Chiquinquirá church, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Carac ...
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  20 May 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church of Nicaragua prays for Venezuela Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "In communion with our brother Bishops of Venezuela and in solidarity with the beloved people of that nation who lives such a dramatic and painful situation, the Bishops of Nicaragua invite you ...
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  20 May 2017
  AMERICA/TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Young activists rally to climate cause in Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) - Two environmental activist groups in Trinidad and Tobago, powered by young volunteers, prepare to ramp up their climate change and sustainability activism. IAMovement and New Fire Festival ...
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  20 May 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "For ethics in politics", even the Bishops denounce corruption in Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Members of the Presidency of the National Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB) published an official note on Friday, May 19, entitled "For ethics in politics", which states that the Conference ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For the Bishops the Constituent Assembly is "not necessary and dangerous for democracy" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) yesterday issued a Pastoral Exhortation as a conclusion of the Extraordinary Plenary Assembly held from 16 to 18 May (see Fides 17/05/2017). With regar ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Almost six million children and teenagers live in extreme poverty Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A study carried out by the Participatory Research Center for Economic and Social Policy (Cippes) shows that half of the children and teenagers in the country live below the poverty line. Ci ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The priest attacked in the Cathedral is still in serious condition Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Mexico published a statement on the health conditions of Father José Miguel Machorro Alcalá, 55, stabbed while celebrating Mass in the Metropolitan Cathedral on Monday, ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Malnutrition emergency, infant and maternal mortality rate increases Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - With the collapsing economy, food and drug shortages and rising food prices, half of Venezuelan children under five years of age are at imminent risk of malnutrition. The alarm arrives from Cari ...
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  17 May 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Anniversary of Independence: reiterated the need to reform the Constitution together Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of President Horacio Cartes, ministers, judges of the Supreme Court, parliamentarians and military leaders, the Archbishop of Asunción, Mgr. Edmundo Valenzuela, on 15 May celeb ...
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  17 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuelan Bishops gathered in an extraordinary Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The difficult situation in the country and in various contexts marked by the difficulties experienced by Venezuela have imposed the convocation of the 43rd Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA - CELAM's Socio-Pastoral Observatory to build the "geopolitics of hope" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - One of the purposes of the XXXVI Ordinary Assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) just completed in San Salvador (see Fides 13/05/2017) was to carry out an assessment of the work ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest stabbed in the cathedral immediately after Mass Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Miguel Angel Machorro, who had just finished celebrating Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico D.F. was stabbed three times on the altar by a thirty-year-old man. According to w ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Help for children and families affected by the mud avalanche in Mocoa Mocoa (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages International is at the forefront of the populations affected by the mud avalanche that hit the Colombian town of Mocoa on April 1st and caused the death of over 350 people ...