America

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  19 January 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Another pandemic is added to the Covid-19 pandemic: irrational violence that does not stop Pasto (Agenzia Fides) - "The pain for the more than 1,000 dead due to the Covid-19 pandemic in our region is reinforced by the deaths that continue due to the other pandemic, namely irrational violence": this is what dec ...
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  19 January 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Digital Plenary Assembly of the bishops: restructuring of CELAM, health crisis and current situation are on the agenda Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The 117th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops of Peru opened yesterday, Monday 18 January. The 54 Bishops of the 46 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country will meet in virtual form until next Thur ...
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  18 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Second wave of the coronavirus pandemic: Bishops of Amazonas and Roraima urgently ask for help Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which also affects the Brazilian state of Amazonas and in particular Manaus, the Norte 1 region of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB), w ...
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  18 January 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: after 29 years the peace agreements have yet to be fulfilled and injustice continues San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - In his usual Sunday meeting with journalists, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, yesterday dwelt as a first point, on the request made to Congress for an amendmen ...
• 16 January 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Consolata Missionaries: "When we help people in need, we help Jesus himself" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We mainly work on the outskirts of large cities with many social problems. We strive to improve and promote human dignity through school education, health centers and vocational training i ...
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  16 January 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Jesuit report on the state of the country: "The crisis is the result of human action and there are ways out" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - To mark the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, the Jesuits working in Haiti published a report on the situation in the tortured country and pointed out ways out of the crisis. "The pro ...
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  15 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Christ Migrant of the World": a year of help and support for migrants in the Archdiocese of La Serena La Serena (Agenzia Fides) - In 2020, the Chilean Caritas launched various initiatives for the benefit of the most affected population groups. One of these programs, aimed at providing legal advice and humanitarian aid to ...
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  15 January 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Radio receivers for schoolchildren from rural and indigenous communities to continue their education during the pandemic Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - To enable children and young people from rural and indigenous communities in the provinces of Maynas and Loreto-Nauta to continue attending classes even in isolation due to the pandemic, the Apo ...
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  14 January 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops disagree over the decision to return Cuba to the list of “sponsors of terrorism” Washington (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the announcement by the US State Department to return to designating Cuba as a “sponsor of terrorism”, Mgr David J. Malloy, Bishop of Rockford, president of the Commission ...
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  13 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Consolata Missionaries have transferred the Continental Novitiate to the Amazon Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - In line with the reflections of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon and in view of the process of restructuring its own presence in America, the Institute of Consolata Missionaries (IMC) has deci ...
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  13 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - At the end of the general assembly: Bishops comment on the "State of the Country" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference published at the end of its plenary assembly (see Fides, 7 and 11/01/2021) a message on the “State of the Country”. "The world is experiencing moments of t ...
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  12 January 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Politics is not the simple art of managing power, resources or crises", warns Bishop Álvarez, in the face of the increase in violence Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, Mgr. Rolando Álvarez, urged the Nicaraguan politicians to seek the common good and not just their own private interests, since in the country "coherenc ...
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  12 January 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "The protection of one's own life and the health of others is a moral duty" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "The global Covid-19 pandemic is causing suffering, uncertainty, fear and fatigue in the entire population. We think of the victims of this pandemic, their families and those who are currently su ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - New violence in Araucania: appeal of the Bishop of Temuco, "only fraternity generates social peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "These days our region, already deeply affected by the pandemic, poverty and lack of opportunities, polarization, failure to keep the promises made to the Mapuche people and the feeling of abando ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violations of the right to information and to the work of journalists denounced by the Archdiocese of Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On January 9, the Third Session of the Ordinary Plenary Assembly of of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) took place digitally, during which the Archbishops and Bishops of the country w ...