America

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  15 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Defend threatened lives, rights not respected and support the reestablishment of justice": the Bishops' requests Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Brazil has more than 537,498 victims of Covid and 19,209,021 cases, according to the report of the press consortium and data from the Department of Health, with an average of 1,270 deaths per d ...
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  14 July 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Violence in Chiapas has become "a public health problem"; an Italian volunteer killed Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Violence has not stopped in Chiapas. Michele Colosio, an Italian volunteer, was killed on the evening of Sunday, July 11 near his home in San Cristobal de Las Casas. The victim was allegedly ...
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  14 July 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - "Those who demonstrate are not criminals, but ordinary people who express their discontent": the Church's appeals to dialogue Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "At this moment, as Pastors, we are concerned that the response to these requests is immobility that contributes to giving continuity to the problems, without solving them. Not only do we see t ...
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  13 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Exhortation of the Bishops: "Each of us, as a person and as a people, must contribute to the reconstruction of our country" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "A message of hope in the love of God and of personal and community commitment in the re-foundation of our country, in the midst of so many calamities and sufferings that afflict us", is what th ...
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  12 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Pope's prayer for Haiti; the religious also demand justice for all the other victims of violence Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent days my prayer has often been aimed at Haiti, following the assassination of its President and the wounding of his wife. I join in the heartfelt appeal of the country’s Bisho ...
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  12 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Missionaries, witnesses of the impossible": missionary October is being prepared Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, July 9, as part of the CXVI Ordinary Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops, gathered virtually, the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), Fr. Ricardo E. ...
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  12 July 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY- The Bishops: "With Christ we must be medicine in this time of the pandemic and post-pandemic" Asuncion (Agenzua Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay, "aware that the evangelical path of listening, synodality, dialogue and consultation, constitutes the appropriate medicine for social health", they entrust themselves t ...
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  10 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops to the authorities: "immediately begin a vaccination campaign" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Venezuela, gathered virtually, have asked for the launch of an immunization campaign against COVID-19 in the country, "with vaccines recognized by the international health authori ...
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  9 July 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New arrests, "may the will of citizens and the human rights of all Nicaraguans be respected" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the electoral panorama, we must demand respect for the popular vote with the available means, so that the elections are credible, just and transparent", says the "Justice and Peace" Commi ...
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  9 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops at the end of the Assembly: "It's time to walk together" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us make our own all the voices that cry out for a supportive and just country. Our gaze is confident even knowing the serious problems that afflict us and all the efforts we must make to fi ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Camillian Missionaries at the forefront to give concrete answers to the bewildered population Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A few hours ago, the news spread in the local press that the Haitian police had killed four "mercenaries" and arrested two others, believed to be responsible for the ambush that killed fo ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Day of Native Vocations: "May no vocation be lost due to lack of economic resources" Quito (Ecuador) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Ecuador have organized a series of online activities in this month of July, as part of the celebration of the National Day of Prayer and Solidarity in favor of ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops after the assassination of President Moise: "Choose fraternal coexistence in the interest of all and in the interest of Haiti!" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Whatever it is, life must be respected from conception to natural death. That is why we strongly condemn the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. As missionaries we appeal to the u ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An indigenous catechist, defender of rights, assassinated, the diocese's complaints on the increasing violence in Chiapas are not heard San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - "With pain we have learned of the murder of our brother Simón Pedro Pérez López, an indigenous Tzozil, catechist of the parish of Santa Catarina, in Pantelho, diocese of San Cristóbal ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Haitian immigrants forbidden to take the bus or ask for rides, the Church welcomes them into the communities Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome immigrants in our temples, in the churches of our communities in Quebradas, Cifuentes and San José de Mata Guineo. How sad it is that they cannot travel by bus or that they cann ...