America

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  18 December 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Dominican missionaries sow hope and dignity with a musical project Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - In Bañado de Tacumbú, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, the hope for a better future passes through music. The population of this neighborhood is mo ...
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  17 December 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Indignation and sadness for the destruction of two statues of the Virgin Mary Montelibano (Agenzia Fides) - The season of Advent presents the Virgin Mary as the woman who waits, with ineffable love, for the fulfillment of the promise of salvation, for this reason "it causes great indignation and s ...
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  17 December 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Presidential elections: "a new opportunity for the country" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Next Sunday we will have a new President of the Republic and we already pray for him and his government. We ask him to govern for all Chileans, seeking ways of dialogue, agreement, justice and ...
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  16 December 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA: "Trabayo y persona": the challenge to create jobs thanks to training Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "It would be nice if all trades became a fashion, a 'trend', to be able to decide whether do this or that job". Fides speaks with Alejandro Marius, founder of "Trabajo y persona", a non-profit c ...
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  16 December 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: the second Christmas overshadowed by the pandemic leads us to appreciate the splendor of Christ who comes to enlighten the world Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - A "call to hope" to live the celebration of the birth of the Son of God and to let oneself be enlightened by the Light of the world offered to each person, has been launched by the Bishop ...
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  15 December 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral Land: 26 murders reported in eight months Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - According to data from the Documentation Center of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) on conflicts in camps, in the period from January, 1 to August 31, 2021, 26 homicides related to land confl ...
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  15 December 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The bishops: contemplating the family of Bethlehem, every home becomes a school of growth and positive experiences La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - In view of Christmas and the end of the calendar year, the Bishops of Bolivia make a "serene but hopeful" assessment of some pending issues that Bolivians "must know how to face with wisdom and a ...
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  14 December 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - COVID-19: 41 priests and 4 Bishops have died in the country since March 2020 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From March 2020 to December 13, 2021, 413 priests and 26 Bishops were infected with COVID-19 in Venezuela: 41 priests and 4 Bishops died. This is what the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) an ...
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  14 December 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Popular initiative for the right to freedom of conscience and religion in the new Constitution Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Episcopal Conference (CECh) invites all citizens to support the popular initiative which calls for the inclusion in the new Constitution of the right to freedom of religion and of c ...
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  13 December 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Let's defend the Amazon from frontal attacks against indigenous peoples, the rainforest and water security Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a frontal and articulated attack underway against the indigenous peoples, the traditional communities of the Amazon, the integrity of the Amazon rainforest, the water security of all ...
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  13 December 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Red Clamor: "We do not want migrants, victims of various forms of violence, to continue to increase in the world" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Red Clamor, the Latin American ecclesial network committed to migrants, refugees and victims of trafficking, together with the Episcopal Dimension of Human Mobility of the Mexican Episcopal ...
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  11 December 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Believing in life and becoming multipliers of goodness and hope", the Camillians strengthen their missionary commitment Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "How can a people of 12 million inhabitants survive despite the natural catastrophe which, on August 14, 2021 (see Fides, 25/8/2021) devastated the cities of southern Haiti, but even more ...
• 10 December 2021
  AMERICA/FRENCH GUIANA - Appointment of the Bishop of Cayenne Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Alain Ransay of the clergy of Fort-de-France (Martinique), currently parish priest of Notre Dame de Bellevue, as Bishop of the Diocese of Cayenne ...
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  10 December 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Apostolic Vicariate Ñuflo de Chávez celebrates its 70th anniversary: "Church is community, participation and mission" Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - "As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of our Vicariate of Ñuflo de Chávez, we remember the important events that have happened and of the people of our people, whom many of ...
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  10 December 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - President of the Episcopal Conference: Mission is a priority Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentine Church faces a number of challenges in the years to come. This was confirmed by the President of the Argentine Bishops' Conference (CEA), Bishop Oscar Ojea of San Isidro after ...