America

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  16 November 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Each year leukemia affects the health of 1,200 poor children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Every year leukemia affects the health of about 1,200 boys and girls who live in poverty. It is actually a type of cancer that occurs frequently in childhood, especially between 3 and 4 years of ag ...
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  16 November 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Poverty on the rise in Santa Fe and Chapinero: daily wage and lack of retirement among the causes Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The official figures of the Development Bogota Humana Plan on the poverty of many inhabitants of the town of Santa Fe and Chapinero are not positive. Daily wage or by instalments, loans, and the ...
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  16 November 2015
  AMERICA - Latin American Bishops protagonists of the "Pact of the Catacombs" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Today, 16 November, 50 years after the "Pact of the Catacombs", marks a special moment in the life of the Church, particularly in Latin America, as the Jesuit missionaries in Peru point out in a no ...
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  16 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The child martyrs of Tlaxcala: martyrs of all Latin America Tlaxcala (Agenzia Fides) - On November 14 with a solemn and heartfelt celebration of the Eucharist, the Apostolic Nuncio His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Pierre presided over the closure of the Jubilee Year for the V centenary o ...
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  13 November 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "We need and want a change" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to say without fear that we need and want a change. We must have hope of real change", reads the final text of the Plenary Assembly of Bishops of Bolivia, held from 5-10 November in ...
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  13 November 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Two more religious missionary nuns sent to Haiti: they will help children, youth and families Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The inter-congregational religious community in Haiti will receive two Brazilian missionaries: Sister Zenaide Laurentina Mayer, of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, and ...
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  12 November 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Meeting of the Pan-Amazonian Network: necessity to listen to indigenous peoples to protect creation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian ecclesial network - REPAM will meet in Bogota from November 16 to 18 with representatives of the various ecclesial organizations and partners from 9 countries that are part of t ...
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  12 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Minors not allowed to work in the sugarcane fields Chetumal (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (STPS) will not tolerate any child under 18 years of age to be employed in the harvesting of sugarcane for 2015-2016. In a statement to the loc ...
• 11 November 2015
  AMERICA/SURINAME - Appointment of the Bishop of Paramaribo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 November 2015, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Karel Choennie, parish priest and former Vicar General of the same diocese as Bishop of Paramaribo (Suriname). Rev. Karel Choennie was b ...
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  11 November 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops call for elections: "Free vote, essential to strengthen democracy" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) has called for the legislative elections, scheduled for December 6, to be held in a "peaceful manner, with great freedom and with the widest possible par ...
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  11 November 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 140 years ago the first group of Salesian missionaries arrived in Patagonia Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 November 1875 the church of Mary Help of Christians in Valdocco (Turin, Italy) lived a great moment: the departure of the first ten Salesian missionaries destined to reach Argentina. ...
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  10 November 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 3,000 participants at the III National Missionary Congress: to relaunch the missionary parish Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to continue the missionary renewal of the local churches in Peru, the Archdiocese of Trujillo, the Episcopal Commission for Missions and the National Directorate of the Pontific ...
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  10 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A battlefield where migrants suffer, are attacked, die Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "According to the Special Programme for migration 2014 to 2018, published in the Official Journal of the Federation on April 30, 2014, the primary purpose of the ideals of migration policy i ...
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  9 November 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Assembly of Bishops in progress: Eucharistic Congress, family and priestly formation Buenos Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The 110th Plenary Assembly of the Argentinean Bishops' Conference, which brings together more than one hundred Bishops of this country, opened yesterday, with a Eucharistic Celebration. The ...
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  7 November 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The program for the beatification of three priests killed in 1991 by the Shining Path presented to Parliament Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The official program of the beatification ceremony of priests Michael Tomaszek, Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Alessandro Dordi, killed in 1991 in Pariacoto (north of Lima) by the Sendero Luminoso terro ...