America

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  21 November 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Church wants to be an active part in public education and have access to the media Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church wants to have schools or spaces in schools, because it is what also a considerable part of the population wants": asks the new Archbishop of Havana, His Exc. Mgr. Juan de la Caridad G ...
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  19 November 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - The coalition Jubilee USA Network: "People are suffering, the crisis is getting worse in Puerto Rico" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "People are suffering, the crisis is getting worse in Puerto Rico", said Eric LeCompte, presenting the testimony as executive director of the coalition "Jubilee USA". LeCompte collaborates with ...
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  19 November 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - For the Year of Mercy: pardon and better conditions in prisons Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, announced yesterday, 18 November, the granting of pardon to 16 prisoners, mostly women, answering the request pronounced by Pope Francis to heads of s ...
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  18 November 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The suspension of the hydroelectric project El Quimbo requested by the population Garzón (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is not merely the absence of war; nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies; nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly an ...
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  18 November 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Abandoned at the mercy of the sun, hunger and parasites San Diego (Agenzia Fides) - The march of children and immigrant families from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to the United States, fleeing violence and poverty does not stop. The alarm was launched by the Ag ...
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  18 November 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' message: "To live mercy in the practice of justice" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to live together on the foundations of truth, without deceiving, with respect, without aggression. Special interests must give way to the common good, especially for the most vulnera ...
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  17 November 2016
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Award to IDHUCA: has been defending the rights of the weakest for 31 years San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - On November 15, the Ambassador of Spain in El Salvador delivered, on behalf of the Spanish king, Philip VI, a Plaque of Civil Merit to the Institute for Human Rights of the Central American ...
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  17 November 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church accompanies the peace talks with ELN with impartiality and discretion Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government, through the Commission created ad hoc to negotiate with the ELN (National Liberation Army), met the Bishops in charge of accompanying the process of dialogue with this g ...
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  16 November 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Amazon Ecclesial Convention: situation and prospects of missionary work Belem (Agenzia Fides) – The Amazon Ecclesial Convention, being held from 14 to 16 November in the city of Belem aims at discussing the political, social, economic, cultural and religious situation of the region and the ...
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  16 November 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Children workers discuss work and decent life Luque (Agenzia Fides) - "Work ennobles us, struggle unites and strengthens us" was the motto of the Regional Meeting that the Latin American and Caribbean Movement of Children and Adolescents Workers (MOLACNNATs), recent ...
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  16 November 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Two Christians among Trump’s advisors for the Middle East New York (Agenzia Fides) - There are at least two Christians of the Eastern Churches in the American Middle East Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee on the Middle East appointed by tycoon Donald Trump before being ...
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  16 November 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Father Aguilar: "Every day children die in Venezuela, there are no medicines and food" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The director of the Communication Department of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV), Father Pedro Pablo Aguilar, highlighted that Venezuelans are becoming "poorer and poorer" because the co ...
• 16 November 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Anselmo Alejandro Peña Sanchez Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 September 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Anselmo Alejandro Peña Sanchez, of the diocesan clergy of Mao-Mo ...
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  15 November 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Adopt humane policies towards immigrants and refugees" ask the Bishops Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The US Catholic Bishops asked President-elect Trump for humane immigration policies towards immigrants and refugees. The Bishops made the plea yesterday at the start of their annual fall Con ...
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  15 November 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - XII Caravan of mothers searching for their missing children Cuahutemoc (Agenzia Fides) - 50 mothers of disappeared young migrants will begin their XII Caravan. The Caravan starts today, November 15, from La Mesilla, Ciudad Cuahutemoc, a city at the center of the Mexican state of ...