America

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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 ...
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  18 June 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Vocational Month: towards a new time of evangelization Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, June is Vocational Month in the Church in Uruguay and Mgr. Luis Eduardo González, Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo and at the head of the Vocations and Ministries Department of ...
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  18 June 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Despite the pandemic, Haitians celebrate Our Lady of Perpetual Help, invoking her to get out of the crisis Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti experiences the worst historical moment of recent times, for economic and social stability, to which is added the health emergency, which affects not only the poorest country in Ame ...
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  18 June 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - A second group of Bolivians return to their country thanks to the intervention of the Church Copiapó (Agenzia Fides) - This time 42 Bolivian citizens returned to their country on the night of Tuesday 16 June. The journey was made possible thanks to the commitment of the Bishopric of Copiapó (Chile) and to two ...
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  17 June 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are all Amazon": Mgr. Ojea calls for anti-Covid emergency measures also for the inhabitants of the Amazon Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of San Isidro and president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mgr. Oscar Vicente Ojea, participated in a virtual meeting in which, together with the specialists, talked abou ...
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  17 June 2020
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Bishops praise the non-prescription proposal for crimes of abuse Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of Justice of Quebec, Sonia LeBel, has recently presented a bill to modify the civil code and, in particular, to ensure that civil actions in the field of sexual violence, child abus ...
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  16 June 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Corpus Christi Mass in the Cathedral of Lima behind closed doors, but with 5 thousand photos of the dead for Covid-19 Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Photos of people killed by COVID-19 covered the benches and walls of the Cathedral of Lima on Sunday for a Corpus Christi mass in tribute to the victims of the coronavirus, officiated by the archbi ...
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  16 June 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - "Give them some food" (Mt 14,16): initiative to feed 10,000 people a day Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the health emergency that we are experiencing for Covid-19, the economic crisis is seriously affecting the whole world and Peru is no stranger to this reality. Poverty in the country worsens ...
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  15 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the pandemic, the 35th Migrants' Week: "Where is your brother and sister?" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is your brother, your sister?" is the question that, taking inspiration from the biblical verse (cf. Gn 4,9), constitutes the theme of the 35th edition of the Week of the Migrant, which ...
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  15 June 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador for Corpus Domini: "Life is precious and we must protect it" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - On the solemnity of Corpus Domini, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador, underlined in a statement sent to Fides, that the care of human life should continue to be essen ...
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  13 June 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - More dialogue and less violence in families: the fruit of the Family Month Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The Family Commission has been strengthened and organized to support these situations during the health emergency, and highlighted the need to start virtual training processes for more family p ...
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  13 June 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Celebrations with the participation of the faithful resume as of June 19th Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, liturgical celebrations will be resumed in Uruguay as of Friday 19 June, with the participation of the faithful, which will take place according to ...