America

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  17 June 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Car bomb attack in Cucuta: "nothing justifies these senseless and blind acts", the Church calls for reconciliation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the teaching of the Church, the Bishops proclaim that nothing justifies these foolish and blind acts, which deeply wound human dignity and constitute a very serious offense against all ...
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  17 June 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The law is sovereign and not the will of men": the Bishops after the latest arrests of opponents Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, highlighted yesterday, Wednesday, June 16, that "there are no conditions" for "free and fair elections" in Nicaragua, and called for the "immediate rel ...
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  16 June 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The parish priest in times of pandemic: joint meeting of Bishops and priests Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) has summoned the representatives of the priests of the various ecclesiastical circumscriptions to the II joint Virtual Meeting of Bishops and Priests, t ...
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  16 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Covid: almost 500 thousand deaths, the prayer of the Church and protests in the face of the mismanagement of the pandemic Minas (Agenzia Fides) - Brazil is approaching the tragic threshold of 500 thousand victims of the new coronavirus. In this context of pain and the need for hope and comfort, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil ( ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chavez San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress ma ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Novena to invoke the end of the pandemic and the beatification of Bishop Shaw, great missionary of Chaco Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In the church of the Paraguayan Chaco and in thirty other places in the country, a Novena is being held to call for the end of the pandemic, as requested by Pope Francis, and for the beatificat ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Elections: waiting for results; the Church invites us to be united and be responsible Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the 2021 general elections was held in Peru on Sunday, June 6 and to date, after more than a week, the official results are not yet known. The National Office of Electoral Proce ...
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  14 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Migrant Week: "Who is knocking on our door?" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration and dialogue" is the theme of the 36th Week of Migrants celebrated by the Church of Brazil from June 13 to 20 with the motto "Who is knocking on our door?". The Week is linked to the ...
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  14 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest killed in a shootout between drug trafficking cartels Jalisco (Agenzia Fides) - The Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Province of Saints Francisco and Santiago in Mexico, Father Angel Gabino Gutiérrez Martinez, OFM, informed of the violent death of his confrere, Father ...
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  12 June 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Entire families suffer and die without assistance: the annual collection of Caritas on 12 and 13 June Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Cáritas Argentina, Mgr. Carlos José Tissera, Bishop of Quilmes, presided over the virtual press conference for the presentation of the annual Caritas collection, which wi ...
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  11 June 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The multiplication of loaves and fish inspires the pastoral guidelines for 2021-2023 Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The members of the Bishops' Conference of Uruguay met for their Plenary Assembly from 7 to 10 June, connected through a digital platform, and at the end of the work they informed about the ma ...
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  11 June 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The pandemic is at its peak, saturated hospitals and cemeteries; the Church asks the government to guarantee vaccines Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Church reiterates its request to the Government to guarantee the vaccination process against Covid-19 in the face of the negative record that the country presents. Bolivia regist ...
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  10 June 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The government's initiatives on biofuels for the Bishops are "a clear setback in Argentina's environmental policy" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Biofuel "worth a mass" is the provocative title of an article in one of the main Argentine newspapers (El Cronista) which refers to a publication of the Argentine Episcopal Commission "Just ...
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  9 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholic Church Action Week: More than half of Brazilian families are affected by food insecurity Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - With a Eucharistic celebration that took place yesterday, June 8, in the Casa Bom Samaritano in Brasilia, where Venezuelan migrants are welcomed, the week of action of the Catholic Church in Br ...
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  9 June 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The US Vice President Kamala Harris advises against emigration: Bishops are calling for solutions to structural causes Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Don't come, don't come!" was the unequivocal invitation from Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, at the conclusion of her visit to Guatemala. Following her m ...