America

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  21 October 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Elections on 25 October: the concerns of the Church Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Less than a week before the presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections, scheduled for Sunday, October 25, the Episcopal Conference of Haiti (CEH) has expressed some concerns. Fir ...
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  20 October 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Scalabrinian Mission": opening of a new reception center for refugees in Sao Paulo Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - A new reception center for refugees sponsored by the Missionary Scalabrinian Sisters (Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo) will open on October 25 in Sao Paulo. The ...
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  20 October 2015
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The Church collects information about people who disappeared during the dictatorship Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has made all parishes in the country available to the families of detainees who disappeared, in order to gather information to identify their remains. The news contained i ...
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  20 October 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Castro Quiroga: "The opening of dialogue with ELN is positive news" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The recent announcement of dialogue between the Colombian government and the ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrilla group, was judged as a positive sign by the President of the Episcopal Confer ...
• 19 October 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 8, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed rev. Noé Reynaldo Franco Velasquez as National Director of the Pontifi ...
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  19 October 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Pope Francis" food bank for needy families in Villavicencio Villavicencio (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate the opening of the special Jubilee of Mercy, on December 8, 2015, the Archdiocese of Villavicencio will inaugurate the new and refurbished food bank called "Pope Francis", to ...
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  19 October 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mining activity in Rancho Grande is "not feasible": listen to the people and the Church Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Nicaragua, led by Daniel Ortega, declared the beginning of the mining activity in the municipality of Rancho Grande, Matagalpa "not feasible", through an official statement. ...
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  19 October 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Share the beauty of consecrated life with a testimony of joy Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, October 22, the third edition of "EXPO charisma 2015" will begin, organized by the Conference of Religious of Arequipa (Peru). This year the initiative takes a special characterist ...
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  19 October 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - V Meeting for Pastoral Operators of Human Mobility in Bolivia, Chile and Peru Antofagasta (Agenzia Fides) - In order to analyze the situation of migrants, refugees and victims of human trafficking, the V Meeting of Bishops and Pastoral Operators of Human Mobility in Bolivia, Chile and Peru will be ...
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  16 October 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -"Learn to live with mutual respect": tension between Haiti and Dominican Republic decreases Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting on Tuesday, October 14 between Dominican President Danilo Medina and the Haitian President Michel Martelly took place at the right time and helped "prevent further hatred betwe ...
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  16 October 2015
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - 115 institutions ready to accept refugees Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - There are 115 institutions that are willing to accept refugees, according to information revealed by the first General Assembly of the support platform for Refugees (PAR). The High Commissioner f ...
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  15 October 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Maryknoll Mission Center has been offering missionaries a valuable service for half a century Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Maryknoll Mission Center is 50 years old. Best known as the CMM, the center was created thanks to the missionary work of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, who in 1965 founded the Padres ...
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  15 October 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Spanish missionary in Ecuador turns 100 on World Mission Day Los Rios (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Bittor Garaygordobil, Bishop Emeritus of Los Ríos (Ecuador), one of the first eight missionary priests of the Basque dioceses of Spain, on October 17 turns 100 on the eve of Worl ...
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  14 October 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Poverty and discrimination for Mexican minors Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty and inequality in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCSE) primarily affects child population, since one out of seven children live in extrem ...
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  14 October 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - First Mass in Nahuatl: "The Nahuatl peoples are hope" Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time a solemn Mass was celebrated in Nahuatl (the native language) in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City which was presided by the Archbishop of Puebla, His Exc. Mgr. Victor S ...