America

• 8 July 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P., currently Apostolic Administrator of the same Vicariate, as Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurima ...
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  8 July 2020
  AMERICA - Covid 19: support to Nicaraguan bishops by Central American bishops San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Central America has given strong support to Nicaraguan bishops who speak and act to protect the most vulnerable population facing the Covid-19 pandemic. In a message, the Pres ...
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  7 July 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Bishops on new decrees: "they threaten the foundations of our society, coexistence, culture, faith and Christian morality" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In a note signed by the members of the Episcopal Conference of Haiti, the Bishops denounce the publication of the latest decrees of President Jovenel Moïse, which clearly attack the cult ...
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  6 July 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - America's most popular Andean Marian pilgrimage suspended due to Covid-19 after 150 years Loja (Agenzia Fides) - The civil, ecclesiastical, military and police authorities of the city and of the province of Loja met to start working on the biosecurity protocol, for the transfer of the Image of the Virgin of E ...
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  6 July 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - School after the pandemic: strengthening the school-family relationship Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - One of Chile's biggest problems is Public Education: for decades, different government systems have managed to propose new methods and different forms to restructure the country's education sys ...
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  4 July 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We cannot get used to crime and violence and be indifferent to death": the diocese in the face of the massacre of Irapuato Guanajuato (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest massacre of the six-year period", "Unacceptable crimes", "Yet another battle and terrible massacre", "One of the worst events in the history of Mexico", "Justice is urgently nee ...
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  3 July 2020
  AMERICA - Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico: together to involve sick missionaries in their mission projects Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 8 July, the leaders of the missionary and elderly sick groups from Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico will have a virtual meeting to share the work they will do during the confinement d ...
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  3 July 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Assembly of the Episcopal Conference, in a virtual way but with an analysis of the reality of Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On this occasion, the Venezuelan Episcopate will meet virtually, thus respecting the prevention measures established for the Covid-19 pandemic. The ordinary plenary Assembly of the CEV number CX ...
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  2 July 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "In addition to doing mission, we are mission": the invitation of Mgr. Centellas in the pandemic Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Ricardo Centellas, Archbishop of Sucre has urged to take on the spirit of co-responsibility, fraternity and mission in our life of faith, and the challenge of renewing ourselves at this mom ...
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  2 July 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Dramatic lack of oxygen in hospitals for Covid-19 patients, the Church in the emergency aid campaign Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peru, with more than 288 thousand cases of Covid-19 and until yesterday registered about 10 thousand deaths, is also experiencing a parallel crisis that it cannot solve: the lack of oxygen in hospi ...
• 1 July 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, His Exc. Mgr. Waldo Ruben Barrionuevo Ramirez Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 27, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc. Mgr. Waldo Ruben Barrionuevo Ramirez, CSsR, Apostolic ...
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  1 July 2020
  AMERICA - CELAM announces the birth of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, and President of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), Cardinal Claudio Hummes, announced ...
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  1 July 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Corruption is a crime that condemns the poor to death": Bishops denounce corruption on behalf of authorities Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the scandalous proliferation of corruption cases involving our Ecuadorian society, just when our people suffer the serious consequences of the Covid 19 pandemic, the Ecuadorian Epi ...
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  30 June 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Help from the bishops to the poor population after the earthquake Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of Mexico have spoken out to help those affected by the latest earthquake in the southern state of Oaxaca which caused the death of at least five people. "We put ourselves under the ...
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  30 June 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul during the pandemic Nehuentue (Agenzia Fides) - Since fishermen, divers and their families are already part of the tradition of the coastal sector of La Araucanía, together with the community of San Roque de Nehuentue, de la Costa de Trovo ...