America

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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop of Asunción appeals to pharmaceutical companies: "It is not the time to make money at the expense of the sick" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not the time for speculation in order to earn money at the expense of the sick", said Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela of Asunción in an interview with a local newspaper about the diffi ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Special Day of prayer for the situation of the pandemic San José (Agenzia Fides) - Next Thursday, April 22, the bishops of Costa Rica invite its faithful to pray in order to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. During the Holy Mass and the Hours of Adoration, Catholics of the ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The press announces the release of one of the kidnapped on Sunday, April 11 Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the people kidnapped in Haiti last Sunday was reportedly released. Since then, there has been no further news from the kidnappers. A total of nine people are still held hostage", ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops: "We cannot be silent when life is threatened, rights are not respected, justice is corrupt" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Brazil is experiencing the worsening of a serious health, economic, ethical, social and political crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which challenges us, highlighting the structural inequali ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Solidarity and prayer for the victims of kidnappings Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In all ten dioceses of the country, Catholics in Haiti held special masses on Thursday April 15 to show their solidarity with the victims of kidnappings. In the parish of Saint-Pierre in ...
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  16 April 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The drama of migrants continues, amid hypocrisy, Covid and a new, more rigid law Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - "The most painful thing of all this unfortunate situation is that the migratory process in Chile has revealed a chain of anomalous situations and the hypocrisy that sustains it. I hope that ...
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  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and Peace" Commission expresses concern about high unemployment rates and increasing poverty and crime Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua comments on the current situation in the country and is concerned about "high unemployment rates, poor living conditions, low wag ...
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  15 April 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Christian churches are demanding special cohesion in the pandemic Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not created through magic, but when we see signs that allow us to continue believing and fighting .... Signs that we can already see in so many people in our society who are faced wi ...
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  15 April 2021
  AMERICA / MEXICO - Bishops ask for "co-responsibility" in school education while the number of Catholics decreases Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) has expressed its dissatisfaction with the improvised way in which the Secretariat of Education is reviewing the free basic level texts for the 2021- ...
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  14 April 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The service of Catholic education in society: a contribution to the common good Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The service of the Church in the field of public education, both in schools and in universities: this is the central theme of the CVIII Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia ...
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  14 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - In the face of kidnappings, common prayer and "national strike" of Catholic activities Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask Catholic schools, religious schools, universities and all other Catholic institutions to observe the interruption of activities on April 15. We ask priests, religious, pastoral wo ...
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  13 April 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Principles and values of the social teaching of the Church in view of a new Constitution Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Episcopal Conference (CEC) has published a document that collects the main teachings of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church in social matters, in order to offer before the May 20 ...
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  13 April 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Word of God at the center of the General Assembly of Bishops Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - With the Mass celebrated by Mgr. Joel Portella Amado, Auxiliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro and Secretary General of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB), in the chapel of the CNBB headquarter ...
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  12 April 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops appeal after the second round of presidential elections Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Electoral Council in Ecuador had not declared an official winner in the contest to replace President Lenin Moreno next month, but results released by the agency showed former banker Mr Lasso w ...
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  12 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - On Divine Mercy Sunday 5 priests, 2 nuns and 3 lay people kidnapped Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - On the second Sunday of Easter, while the universal Church celebrated Divine Mercy, the Catholic Church of Haiti, in particular the Society of Priests of Saint Jacques and the Archdiocese ...