America

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  7 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of prayer "for the reconciliation of the Colombian people, justice and fraternal solidarity" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian Church has convened a day of prayer for today, Friday May 7, in order to "ask for the reconciliation of the Colombian people, justice and fraternal solidarity". The Latin American C ...
• 6 May 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Appointment of the interim National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Mgr. Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 27, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc Mgr. Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, SVD, Bishop Prelate o ...
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  6 May 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Bishops: "our beloved country demands a change of course, not with violence, but with dialogue and fraternity" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - After the dismissal of the Magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Attorney General of the Republic, which occurred on May 1st, the Bishops' Confer ...
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  6 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church is committed to assisting more than one million Venezuelan immigrants, another 500 thousand request the recognition of refugees Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Arequipa continues to provide spiritual and material assistance to thousands of families from other countries, mostly Venezuelans, who take refuge in this city in sear ...
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  5 May 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops on kidnappings: "The fight against this phenomenon must continue" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The fight against the phenomenon of kidnappings and against evil must continue", said the Episcopal Conference of Haiti in a text sent to Agenzia Fides and published last night where the ...
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  5 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A Humanitarian Commission to follow the people, the proposal of the Archbishop of Cali Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Darío de Jesús Monsalve Mejía of Cali, in view of the recent clashes with the police, in which 19 people died and hundreds were injured, suggests the creation of a "Humanitarian Com ...
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  4 May 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Centellas calls for election promises to be kept: "Hopes must not be disappointed" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Following the recent local elections, the chairman of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Ricardo Centellas, asked the elected candidates "not to disappoint the trust that people hav ...
• 4 May 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - The religious of Camaguey denounce: "people are tired and stressed, they cannot take it any longer, it is an unsustainable situation" Camaguey (Agenzia Fides) - "We turn to you with respect and concern to portray the painful situations that we experience as a people ... We listen carefully to the people and with our pastoral work we want to help and ac ...
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  4 May 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnappers in Haiti release hostages Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Kidnappers have released five priests, two nuns and two other people who had been held for nearly three weeks. The kidnapping took place on Sunday 11 April, and all the hostages are safe ...
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  3 May 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A doctor beatified during the pandemic: José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, "filled with science and faith" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Last Friday in Caracas, Venezuela, José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful, was beatified. He was a doctor filled with science and faith: he was able to recognise the face of Christ in ...
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  3 May 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - June 6 elections: bishops ask for the best option, beyond the clashes between parties and candidates Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Catholic Church has urged its faithful to discern and seek, among the candidates in the June 6 elections, "the best option", beyond the confrontations between parties and candida ...
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  30 April 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consolata missionaries: "Support the efforts of indigenous communities to react to the condition of abandonment and degradation" Cartago (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time the entire territory of the diocese of Cartago has been experiencing a very problematic social situation characterized by degradation and insecurity. Its causes are to be found, o ...
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  29 April 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church is close to the population of the city besieged by criminal violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mexico will make all its resources and structures available for aid programs to promote human life. This was emphasized by the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop F ...
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  28 April 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The first international Congress United for Life: strengthening the defense of life in all areas Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the 15th anniversary of the "National March for Life" in Colombia, the city platform "United for Life" will hold the first International Congress United for Life on 1 May, whose object ...
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  28 April 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - PMS National Assembly: at this time of the pandemic we need to "reinvent ourselves" as promoters of the mission La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Bolivia was inaugurated on April 27, virtually, to evaluate, coordinate and plan the activities of the PMS. During the meeting, ...