America

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  26 April 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Start bankruptcy process to save the country : religious leaders demand San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – "We confirm our encouragement and our support to the government of Puerto Rico and the Supervising Committee, to authorise a process of Title III bankruptcy before 28 April, when legal debt ...
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  25 April 2017
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - Like his recent predecessors President Trump avoids the term Armenian Genocide Washington – (Agenzia Fides) – American President Donald Trump, on Monday 24 April, issued an official statement on the planned massacre 102 years ago of Armenians in the Anatolian Peninsula, but avoided referring to ...
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  24 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Closeness and solidarity for Venezuela also from the Catholic Church in Colombia Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – “Closeness and solidarity has been voiced by the Catholic Church in Colombia towards the people of Venezuela, and the present difficult situation in that country” as expressed already by t ...
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  24 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New window for the evangelising activity of the Catholic Church in Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On 26 April the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil (CNBB) will launch its new portal www.cnbb.org.br. The aim, says Auxiliary Bishop of Brasilia and CNBB secretary, is to give new im ...
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  22 April 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Church in Panama is sympathetic with the people of Venezuela Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are sympathetic with the request of the Bishops 'Conference of Venezuela, which calls for action on the basis of conscience and the exercise of the right to demonstrate", says a statement fro ...
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  22 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 9 other peasants killed in an agrarian conflict Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) - Nine people killed. This is the toll of the last massacre caused by an agricultural conflict in Brazil. The massacre occurred a few days ago in a settlement in the municipality of Colniza, a ...
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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Emergency in Mocoa continues and the risk of infection increases Mocoa (Agenzia Fides) - Two weeks after the overflow of the two rivers, Sangoyaco and Mulato (see Fides 3/4/2017), the population of Mocoa still lives in a state of emergency: there is no food, water and medical treatmen ...
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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - School kits and food for working children Sullana (Agenzia Fides) - The Yachay National Program of the Peruvian Ministry for Women and Vulnerable Populations, in agreement with the Municipality of Sullana, has distributed a total of 50 school kits and food to wo ...
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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Protomatyrs of Brazil: examples of Eucharistic devotion, faithfulness to the Church and missionary commitment Rio Grande do Norte (Agenzia Fides) - There is great joy in Rio Grande do Norte after the news that the canonization of the Protomartyrs of Brazil will take place on 15 October: André de Soveral, Ambrosio Francisco Ferr ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "The judicial elections must not be politically manipulated" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has asked through a brief message of its Secretary, Fr. José Fuentes, addressed to the civil community and the Bolivian government that the judicial electi ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Qali Warma: breakfast and lunch for pupils in the poorest area of the Apurimac Abancay (Agenzia Fides) - There are altogether 1,334 public school institutions that belong to the extreme poverty areas of the Peruvian region of the Apurímac which receive food from the Qali Warma National School of F ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Three dead and millions of protesters; For the Bishops: "civil and peaceful protest is not a crime, it is a right!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Civil and peaceful protest is not a crime. It is a right! Its control cannot be an excessive repression", says the statement of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela published yesterday. Numerou ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "0 street children" program: education and rehabilitation Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With the intention of preventing children under 12 years of age living in the street, the Office for the Protection of Childhood and Adolescence of the City of Cochabamba, is carrying out the ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016": 1,295 cases, 61 murders Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016", drawn up by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), at the headquarters of the Episcopal Conference (CNBB), in Brasilia was presented. 1,29 ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 35-year-old priest dies due to the lack of medicines Merida (Agenzia Fides) – On Holy Saturday, April 15, according to information sent to Fides from Merida (Venezuela), father José Luis Arismendi, 35, died due to the lack of medicines. For two days the priest waited fo ...