America

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  26 June 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Alarm for the health situation and social indiscipline in Chocò Chocò (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the patronal feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Patroness of the diocese of Quibdó, Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto Barreto, strongly denounced the precariousness of the health system an ...
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  25 June 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "House arrest and quarantine elsewhere": Archbishop Juarez's request for detainees in the face of Covid-19 Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to express my deep concern about the events that are happening due to the coronavirus and how the number of people affected, suspected and infected is growing, especially in the San Roque ...
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  24 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Municipal elections: "Good politics is at the service of life and peace" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In this year 2020, if there are no changes in the electoral calendar, elections will be held to choose mayors and councilors in the 5570 Brazilian municipalities. South Region 2 of the National ...
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  24 June 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops appeal to authorities for the violation of human rights in the community of San Mateo del Mar Tehuantepec (Agenzia Fides) - "With deep concern" Mgr. Crispín Ojeda Martínez, Bishop of the diocese of Tehuantepéc, and Mgr. Arturo Lona Reyes, Bishop Emeritus and President of the Human Rights Center "Tepeyac" AC, a ...
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  24 June 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop Vargas: "A policy of indecision generates a debt with many wounds and painful consequences, not only for the indigenous world" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Héctor Vargas Bastidas, Bishop of Temuco and President of the Indigenous Pastoral Care of the Chilean Episcopal Conference (CECh), in an interview published in the Diario Austral of the cit ...
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  23 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral care and evangelization in the current situation: cycle of online theological dialogues Belo Horizonte (Agenzia Fides) - "Christian spirituality in a time of pandemic" was the topic of reflection by Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Archivist and Librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Archive, w ...
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  23 June 2020
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Saving young people from drugs instead of blaming each other on dirty money Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Jesús Castro Marte, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, criticized the parties' attitude towards the proposals they present to the electorate, asking that they in ...
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  23 June 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Mgr. Olivera hopes to "Regain true credibility in justice, without ideologies" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Santiago Olivera, published a letter in La Nación newspaper on Saturday 20 June, when Flag Day and the anniversary of the death of General Manuel Belgrano, an important person because ...
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  22 June 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church involved in the "crusade for life", to help vulnerable and migrant families Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 21 June, from the minor Basilica of San Lorenzo Mártir, Cathedral of the archdiocese of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Mgr Sergio Gualberti presided over the Mass concelebrated by Mgr. Re ...
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  22 June 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years ago the Bishops went to Masaya to be close to the people and avoid another massacre Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body" (Mt 10,28). Two years ago, on June 21, 2018, the Bishops went to the city of Masaya to be close to the people, pray with the people and avoid anothe ...
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  20 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Is the freedom of movement of goods worth more than that of people? Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Brazil celebrates World Refugee Day with a series of programs and debates on the situation of people forced to leave their land and country that concludes the "Migrant's Week". " ...
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  20 June 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops: a look at those who have lost their bread, their roof and their jobs, even if they are migrants Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Commission for Migrants and Itinerant People (CEMI) has expressed its desire to make visible the vulnerable situation of refugees and migrants, in a message for World Refugee ...
• 19 June 2020
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Appointment of the Bishop of Mandeville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Mandeville, Jamaica, the Reverend John Derek Persaud, of the clergy of Georgetown, currently vicar general, vicar for the clergy an ...
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  19 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Humanitarian catastrophe" in Brazil for the pandemic: complaint by the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Tension between Brazil and Venezuela grows after last Tuesday, June 16, the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, denounced the government of Jair Bolsonaro "for crim ...
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  19 June 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - More than 80 prisoners receive food assistance thanks to the solidarity of the Church Coro (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Coro continues its social work adapting it to the reality of confinement and the economic crisis that the country is experiencing. Thanks to the support received by Adveniat and ...