America

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  15 January 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 88-year-old Mgr. Casaldáliga: "I will not go back to Europe, I will stay in the Third World" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, asked yesterday, 14 January, the Attorney General's Office, to investigate the case of the loan of $ 1.2 million approv ...
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  15 January 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez denounces the lack of clarity in the management of the workers' money Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, asked yesterday, 14 January, the Attorney General's Office, to investigate the case of the loan of $ 1.2 million approv ...
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  14 January 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Indigenous people, poor people, young people and migrants: "the new faces of the excluded" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Social Pastoral Caritas in Chile, a body of the Episcopal Conference, presented the document "Equity and development in Chile: the new faces of the exc ...
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  14 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi in the face of popular protests: "We cannot be indifferent to the suffering of families" San Cristóbal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, has agreed to mediate in the conflict in the Mexican town of Altos de Chiapa ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mgr. Peña Rodríguez’s appeal for the elections: "Do not choose people without morals" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Dominican Episcopal Conference, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, Bishop of the Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, called on the Do ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Alert for the spread of the zika virus among pregnant women San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Following the declaration of the local Ministry of Health of the state of alert in 47 municipalities of 11 departments in the Country due to the presence of the vector that transmits the zi ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops call for an end to the expulsion of illegal immigrants Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the United States has asked the government in recent weeks to end deportation raids of Central American families without valid documents. According to information ...
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  12 January 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Mgr. Serpa and the prisoners in Cuba: Being imprisoned, “shut in”, is not the same thing as being “shut out” Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Cuban diocese of Pinar del Río, His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Serpa said that in Cuba there are political prisoners, and these are people with long convictions for whom he has asked a re ...
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  12 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For the Bishops: the capture of 'El Chapo' should give hope that crime will decrease Celaya (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. José Benjamín Castillo Plascencia, Bishop of Celaya, said that the new capture of "El Chapo", the well-known criminal, head of a Mexican organization dedicated to international dr ...
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  11 January 2016
  AMERICA - Latin America, the most dangerous region for human rights defenders Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America is the most dangerous region for activists who defend human rights: dozens of people died here defending land rights, the environment and the indigenous and homosexual community, a ...
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  11 January 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The situation of migrants in Honduras: "It is sad that mothers with their children are expelled" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Care of Human Mobility, an organization of the Catholic Church in Honduras, has asked the US government of President Barack Obama to end the recent raids and expulsions of undoc ...
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  9 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Black Nazarene, a devotion without borders New York (Agenzia Fides) - The devotion to the Black Nazarene in Manila does not have borders, and so while all roads in Manila lead to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, many devotees in New York who ca ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Street children remain an invisible problem Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Every two evenings a team of professionals of the Casa San José go out on the streets of Quillacollo looking for abandoned children. Quillacollo is a municipality of the urban area of the ci ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Opening of the Assembly of Bishops, Mgr. Padrón Sánchez: national reconciliation and amnesty for political prisoners Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, Archbishop of Cumaná (Venezuela) and President of the Venezuelan Episcopate opened yesterday (7 January) the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Confe ...
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  7 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - USA Bishops support Obama's line on measures to limit the spread of weapons Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank God there is someone who finally has the courage to fill the gaps in our shameful laws on gun control in order to reduce the number of massacres, murders and suicides that have become ...