America

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  17 April 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Human rights do not disappear nor lost when crossing borders: hundreds of migrants stranded in Honduras Choluteca (Agenzia Fides) - "About 300 people originally from Haiti, Cuba and Africa (mostly Haitians) have already overcrowded the rooms they had rented in Choluteca, Honduras for more than 24 days", this is how the let ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops in the United States and Mexico: in times of pandemic "stop deportations in the name of the suffering people" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the beginning of the restrictions imposed to contain the Covid 19 pandemic, the Bishops of Guatemala note that some of the compatriots do not seem to have become fully awa ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Solidarity among parishes in the face of Covid-19 Pesqueira (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Solidarity Action, initiative of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and of Cáritas Brasileira launched on Easter Sunday (see Fides, 11/4/2020), has already prom ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Covid-19: the voice of mission among collapsing healthcare facilities, corruption and war scenarios Durán (Agenzia Fides) - "The churches of Guayaquil have been closed since Saturday 14 March and the streets are deserted. Only the basic necessities are open in the morning". Fr. Saverio Turato, a fidei donum priest in ...
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  15 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The church denounces the violence of groups and asks for a truce Quibdò (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, bishop of the diocese of Quibdó, denounced the increase in conflicts in the Colombian Pacific area. The situation, according to the Bishops of this Colombian region ...
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  14 April 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Covid 19: "the word of God is carried out by concrete gestures of solidarity", underlines Mgr. Garcia San Justo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of San Justo, Mgr. Eduardo García, underlined the role of the Church in the context of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, through work in canteens and in assisti ...
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  13 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In the face of the pandemic, migrants "continue to be invisible in social and humanitarian policies" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Episcopal Conferences of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, published a document on the migration situation in these times of coronavirus, sent to Fid ...
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  13 April 2020
  AMERICA - At Easter the supplication to the Virgin of Guadalupe to grant the world health and the end of the pandemic Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Sunday, April 12, in the Shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, "Empress of America", the "Act of consecration to the Most Holy Virgin Mary took place, under the title of Our L ...
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  11 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Solidarity and prayer, a site prepared for the Covid 19 emergency Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In consideration of the emergency health situation due to the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), the Permanent Secretariat of the Colombian Episcopate (SPEC) has created the web microsite https://i ...
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  11 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From Easter the joint action of emergency begins, promoted by Bishops and Caritas Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - From Easter Sunday, April 12, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and Caritas Brazil launch the initiative called "Emergency solidarity action" at a national level, with the mot ...
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  11 April 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Holy Thursday: Eucharistic blessing by helicopter for Cochabamba Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Thursday is the day when all over the world the Church solemnly remembers the institution of the sacrament of the Eucharist by Jesus. This year it was not possible to celebrate because o ...
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  10 April 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops to priests: "More than ever this Easter must help us deepen the mystery of Christ" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay addressed a message to the "brother priests" on Holy Thursday, on the solemn day "when the Lord jointly instituted the sacrament of priesthood and that of the Most Holy ...
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  9 April 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Covid-19: Caritas Peru helps 40 thousand vulnerable families across the country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The general coordinator of "Caritas in the face of the coronavirus" campaign, reported on April 3 on national television, that the Caritas network has already assisted about 40,000 families across ...
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  8 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Digital Via Crucis animated by young people "for the health of the world" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In times of COVID-19, the San Paolo Company (Province Colombia, Ecuador, Panama) created a "digital Via Crucis", involving young people from different countries not only in Latin America: Colombi ...
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  8 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops launch "Appostolica", to remain united around the pillars of faith in times of the pandemic Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico presented the mobile application "Appostolica", "the Church now closer to you", a free tool "to unite the people of God around the pillars of our faith: the Word of God ...