America

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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 ...
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  15 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Half a million children in conditions of neglect Quito (Agenzia Fides) - At present there are 500,000 children and adolescents in the age group between 0 and 17 years, living without any family ties completely left on their own in Ecuador. This is what emerges from a s ...
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  15 April 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops' message: "Christians cannot relinquish their participation in politics" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the General Assembly of Bishops of Brazil (see Fides 07/04/2016), the president of the Bishops' Conference (CNBB), the Archbishop of Brasilia, His Exc. Mgr. Sergio da Rocha ...
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  15 April 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops invite the State to listen to the demands of farmers Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) has requested the presence of the State alongside farmers, the promotion of programs to prevent the uprooting of families and highlighted the strength ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A work program for women and young people in poverty Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The non-profit organization Cuso International, engaged with its volunteers to fight poverty, has launched in Nicaragua the Voice work program, Voluntary work for International Cooperation and E ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Nearly half of minors and adolescent workers receive no remuneration Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), at a national level, the last quarter of 2015, 47.1% of the population in the age group between 5 to 1 ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Vera against suspected alms: "Money, the more you wash it, the more you dirty your conscience" Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "Money must never be washed, because the more you wash it, the more you dirty your conscience", said His Exc. Mgr. José Raúl Vera López, OP. Bishop of Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), during the ...