America

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  13 February 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Catholic Church breaks ties with the Scout Association of the country La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Argentina has broken its ties with the Scout Association of the country due to recent changes in its educational project concerning the concept of family, and issues such ...
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  13 February 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence in the rural area increases, yesterday the memory of Dorothy Stang’s testimony Anapu (Agenzia Fides) - Families of farmers from Anapu in the south of Pará (Brazil), yesterday February 12 gathered to commemorate the death of Sister Dorothy Stang which happened 12 years ago. The nun was killed becau ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - New challenge for the Pastoral Care of Prisons: what happens after having found freedom? Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Organized by the Pastoral Care of Prisons, on 3 and 4 February the retreat of prison chaplains in the Convent of San Alfonso, in Villa Allende, Cordoba was held. 22 chaplains from all over the c ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time a feast of Candlemas for the poor Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The program of celebrations in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Candlemas of Puno, in southern Peru, on the border with Bolivia, on Wednesday, February 8, the Bishop of the diocese, His Exc. Mgr. ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Polio vaccination campaign for 470,000 children Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The 56th National Vaccination Campaign against Poliomyelitis will soon begin in Cuba. Organizers expect that over 471,000 Cuban children will be vaccinated. The first phase will take place from ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Social Justice for 120,000 farm workers in the state of New York Albany (Agenzia Fides) - During a press conference held yesterday at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, the capital of New York state, the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, His Exc. Mgr. Edward B. Scharfe ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - 26,000 Panamanian children still exploited in various forms of work and slavery Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Institute for the Development of Women and Children (UDEMI) recently organized a meeting with members of civil society, NGO representatives and members of Alianza con la niñez to address the ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New missionary front in the Amazon for Italian fidei donum missionaries Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - "The heart of the Church of Roraima, extreme north of the Brazilian Amazon, welcomed with joy the sister church of Padua which on Saturday, January 21, sealed its commitment to open a new miss ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue between the government and ELN opens in Quito, the Church is present at the trial Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The public phase of dialogue between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) opened yesterday, on February 7, in the capital of Ecuador, Quito. T ...
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  1 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - First counseling center in Chiapas for the victims of violence and the building of peace Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Caritas Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez has just inaugurated the first "counseling center" which aims to offer a safe space to accompany and assist the victims of violence i ...
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  1 February 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "To stigmatize immigrants" or open up to the richness of life they bring with them? Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Who is 'the other', how can I get in relationship with him?" is the question to ask according to the Episcopal Commission for Migration and Tourism of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina ...
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  31 January 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - New impetus for Missionary Childhood and Adolescence with new communication technologies Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Five virtual meetings during 2017 for mutual enrichment of the national Directorates of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Bolivarian countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and V ...
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  31 January 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consecrated life: "light for the world, promoter of peace and reconciliation" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Inspired by the theme "Let us be reconciled to God" (2 Cor 5:20) indicated by the Colombian Episcopate, which places reconciliation as a priority commitment of the whole Church of Colombia for th ...
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  31 January 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The number of street children doubles San Miguel de Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretariat for Childhood, Adolescence and the Family had to assist cases of sexual violence and child abuse, abandonment and neglect of relatives last year. Also in 2016, the ...
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  30 January 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Disarm hearts to eliminate violence in Mapuche lands Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The lands where the Mapuche indigenous people live in southern Chile are caught up in a spiral of violence (see Fides 11/08/2016; 17/10/2016; 29/12/2016; 25/01/2017). A presidential Commission, c ...