America

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  22 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fun activity campaign to remove child workers from the road Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - For the entire month of December a series of activities that provide fun initiatives against child labor, with the objective of removing children from the street, was carried out in Bogota. Accor ...
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  22 December 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - New version of the website of the Church of Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In order to continue to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and spread the pastoral action of the pilgrim Church on the largest island of the Antilles, a new website of the Conference of Catho ...
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  21 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Solidarity of the Diocese of Cuautitlan for the fireworks market explosion Tultepec (Agenzia Fides) - "We join all market workers of San Pablito in Tultepec in this tragedy", writes the Bishop of Cuautitlan, His Exc. Mgr. Guillermo Ortiz Mondragón, expressing solidarity with the victims of the ...
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  21 December 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drugs among the new forms of poverty to be addressed urgently Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to help those who have fallen to get up and prevent others who are vulnerable to fall ... We will never be able to replace families, but as a Church, we are the family of God, and ...
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  20 December 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "A Doctor at home" initiative in favor of the most vulnerable Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The health initiatives in Mexico City, called "Médico en tu casa" and "Cunas CDMX", were presented to the Ministry of Health (Minsa) authorities of Panama that wants to put them in place i ...
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  20 December 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Central American migrants "seek accommodation" together with the Bishops El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 30 Central American migrants were special guests of the "Posada Sin Fronteras", which was organized by the Diocese of El Paso (Texas) and Las Cruces (New Mexico), last weekend. To lo ...
• 20 December 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 December 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas (Peru), by His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde ...
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  20 December 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The solution is not barbarism": the Archbishop of Ciudad Bolivar after the violence and ransacking Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly believe that the solution is not barbarism, acts of vandalism and irrationality. We can solve our conflicts in a civilized, peaceful and democratic framework. Violence is the ...
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  19 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Threats to the Archbishop of Cali, but "Colombia must overcome this stage" responds Mgr. Monsalve Mejia Cali (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia, Archbishop of Cali, talking to some media operators, reported that last Friday, December 16, strangers delivered leaflets to the Archbishop's house, in ...
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  19 December 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The measures taken have worsened the crisis, the Bishops call on politicians to listen to people Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) issued a message addressed to the authorities of Venezuela on recent economic measures imposed. With regard to the new measures, the Bishops denounce: " ...
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  17 December 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez: "To change the culture of power for the power of culture" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "To change the culture of power for the power of culture": this is how we can summarize the message of the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio José Báez Ortega, in his speech at the Human Righ ...
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  17 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC register themselves as a political party. No Vatican "mediation" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In Bogota, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue the road taken to transform itself into a political party in 2017, and have registered themselves at the National Electoral C ...
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  16 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A video shows a child rummaging in the garbage looking for food Villaflores (Agenzia Fides) - The video that shows a street child seeking food from a garbage has caused great indignation among the citizens of the municipality of Villaflores, Chiapas, Mexico. The video, filmed by a pa ...
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  16 December 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Going to school for two-thirds of children is a danger to their safety Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In Honduras one third of today’s generation of school-goers can access a secure educational space. The general violence that the country lives obliges families to decide whether to hide th ...
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  15 December 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops of Patagonia: "Christmas invites us to take the path of non-discrimination" Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - In their message for Christmas, the Bishops of the Region of Patagonia-Comahue ask to reflect on the violence that the country lives. "Everything seems infested by violence. We know that violen ...