America

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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Evangelical church set on fire, still in the name of the Mapuche cause Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Another church in the Chilean region of La Araucania was set on fire: last night the fire destroyed an evangelical church, in the municipality of Padres Las Casas. Although firefighters arrived o ...
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  25 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Earthquakes cause extreme difficulties for those affected by disability Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The death toll of the earthquake that just over a week ago struck Ecuador rises: more than 710 people have died or are missing, including some 16,600 injured and some are still in serious condit ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Vargas: "Churches burned to solve the Mapuche conflict is unexplainable" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Hector Eduardo Vargas Bastidas, S.D.B. in a testimony sent to Fides, highlights the situation after the attacks on churches which recently occurred in southern ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Too much military presence indicates weakness": demonstration against the inter-oceanic canal Nueva Guinea (Agenzia Fides) - The military and police presence on the route that will follow the fourth national March against the inter-oceanic canal, scheduled for today, April 22, in Nueva Guinea, "scares" the popula ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The ordeal and growing despair among the 2,500 Cubans blocked at the border continues David (Agenzia Fides) - "As Pastoral Social-Caritas Panama, from 6 to 18 April we visited along with some Caritas delegates of David, the centers where there are Cubans migrants in Paso Canoas. Here there are more than 2 ...
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  21 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Mata fears a return to the law of the jungle after the violent death of the mayor of Ayala Estelí (Agenzia Fides) - "It hurts me, as a citizen and as pastor, (...), especially when we talk about a person who followed appropriate channels to raise the issue, but it seems that things are even worse than before. ...
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  21 April 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - 57 percent of young Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - As Congress debates legislative solutions for Puerto Rico's financial crisis (see Fides 18/03/2016, 12/04/2016), new reports indicate that the island's child poverty rate is worse than previous ...
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  20 April 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A priest who disappeared a week ago found dead St. Augustine (Agenzia Fides) - Father Rene Wayne Robert, a priest of the Diocese of Saint Augustine in Florida, 71, who disappeared last week, was found dead in Georgia, on Monday, April 18, as informs the police in an ...
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  20 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A missionary: "Our support and our prayer is needed" Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) - Don Luis Fernando Criado Reca, Spanish diocesan priest of Jaen, has been a missionary in Ecuador for 12 years. He is currently parish priest in the northern province of Esmeraldas, on the bor ...
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  19 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops call on teachers in Oaxaca to demonstrate without violence: "their fight is right" Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - "The fight that teachers, pensioners and non are carrying out in front of the Government Palace is right, and the Church cannot remain silent, because it is our duty to support and listen to thei ...
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  19 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - The religious before the Araucania challenge, human trafficking, drug trafficking Padre Hurtado (Agenzia Fides) - "In a system that proclaims that salvation is in power, in wealth, in the monopoly of knowledge, there are situations which cry out. The reality challenges us and is fundamental to us: hum ...
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  18 April 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Still demonstrations to support the immigration reform El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - Today, April 18, the Supreme Court of the United States will listen to the presentation of the initiatives proposed by President Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the ...
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  18 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Chomali after the churches burned: "The Mapuche issue is a political issue" Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali, who worked with the Mapuche people for several years, interviewed by the local press after churches were set on fire in past day ...
• 18 April 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of San Andrés y Providencia, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 April 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Andrés y Providencia (Colombia), presented by His Exc. Msg. Eulises ...
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  18 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Also a monastery destroyed by the earthquake: a nun and five postulants among the 272 dead Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest news, the earthquake that struck the coast of Ecuador on Saturday, April 16, has so far caused at least 272 dead and 2,068 injured. Among the victims there is a religi ...