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27 July 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - "No more violence, we must resume the broken dialogue": an appeal of the Mapuche community priests
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priests who are part of the pastoral Mapuche, have asked to avoid acts of violence and have made an appeal to resume the "broken dialogue" between Mapuche communities and authoriti ...
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26 July 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - The strike on behalf of nurses in the country has ended, lasted 29 days
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 2,600 nurses from Honduras who have stopped the strike which for over 29 days has kept the country in suspense. The national protest of the nurses came to an end afte ...
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25 July 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Poverty has a female face": alarming discrimination against women
Durango (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Sanchez Martinez, denounced "the alarming discrimination against women in Mexico", in particular in his diocese. He said that "violence aga ...
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25 July 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - Conflict in the region of Araucania; for Caritas "the way of righteousness leads to peace"
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Institute has issued a statement condemning the violent events of recent days which took place in the Chilean region of Araucania and proposes the way of justice as the only one ...
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24 July 2012
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Stop violence against women: an emergency for the State and the Church
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of a convivial gathering to say thank you to the various institutions for the end of President Leonel Fernandez' mandate, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Arch ...
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24 July 2012
AMERICA - Inauguration of the Observatory of the New Evangelization for Latin America
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the New Evangelization, His Exc. Mgr. Octavio Ruiz Arenas, announced that on Tuesday, July 24, during the opening session of the meet ...
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23 July 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Hundreds of thousands of children in Chiapas work without compensation
Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 199 thousand children in the age group ranging from 5 to 17 work without receiving any financial compensation. According to the local Labour Offic ...
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23 July 2012
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Restore the altered constitutional order ": the Bishops' request
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in El Salvador has asked Parliament to repeal the election of magistrates, as established by a judgment, to restore the "altered constitutional order " and warned that t ...
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23 July 2012
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A course on the Social Doctrine of the Church has been inaugurated at the UCICAM
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Immaculate Conception Catholic University of the Archdiocese of Managua (UCICAM) has inaugurated a course for the Diploma in Social Doctrine of the Church. The course, lasting five months, w ...
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21 July 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church encourages dialogue between the government and rebels in the region of Cauca
Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous people of Cauca and the Colombian government have agreed to start a dialogue "at the highest level" next Monday, July 23, to seek a solution to the crisis in the South-West region ...
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21 July 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - More than 10 thousand young people together to express their missionary commitment
Coatzacoalcos (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 10 thousand young people enrolled in the Mission Congress held from 19 until 22 July in the city of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, with the primary aim to "awaken and form the consc ...
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20 July 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The campaign for the reception of Haitian migrants in Brazil
Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuit Refugee Service in Latin America and the Caribbean (SJR/LAC) continues its campaign to raise Latin American citizens awareness concerning the Haitian migrants and the need to understan ...
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20 July 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence in the country increases: 24 children killed every day
Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – In Brazil the last 30 years are considered as the most violent. According to the recent study "Map of Violence 2012, Children and Adolescents in Brazil", in 2010 at least 24 children and tee ...
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20 July 2012
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Peruvian Bishop calls for the intervention of the U.S. Congress on the issue of La Oroya mining
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "A U.S.-owned smelter has contaminated air, soil and water in the city of La Oroya, in Peru. The fact deserves monitoring and corrective measures by the U.S. Congress, according to a Peruvian ...
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19 July 2012
AMERICA/PERU - "Living the country's unity in prayer": Bishops' appeal before the social problems
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Peru have asked to give life to a "Chain of Prayer for Dialogue and Peace." A few days before National Independence Day of Peru, which is celebrated on July 28, the Peruvian Episcopa ...
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