America

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  4 March 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Yes to women, Yes to life": a great prayer for life on 8 March announced by the Bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, March 8, and on the occasion of the legislative discussion of the project to legalize abortion, the Executive Commission of the Arge ...
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  3 March 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Two other social leaders killed in northern Colombia, while President Duque is visiting the country Antioquía (Agenzia Fides) - Once again the north of Colombia, in particular the department of Antioquia, was the scene of violence: last weekend, in the municipality of Campamento, the social leader Didian Arley Agudelo ...
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  3 March 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops and religious together reflect on the ecological challenges in the country Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Joint Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) and the Conference of Religious of Paraguay took place yesterday, March 2 to reflect together on the theme "The ecological chal ...
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  2 March 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Let us walk together for the construction of a missionary and committed Church Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB) has published the Guidance Document and pastoral guidelines for the period 2020-2024, encouraging the faithful and all pastoral sectors to welcome it, study ...
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  29 February 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The official opening of the 2020 Fraternity Campaign in the Shrine of Aparecida Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 1 March, first Sunday of Lent, the Archbishop of Belo Horizonte and President of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference (CNBB), Mgr. Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, will preside over the ...
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  29 February 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Servants of Maria Riparatrici: "For a hundred years in the Amazon at the service of God and humanity" Sena Madureira (Agenzia Fides) - "The Servant Sisters of Maria Riparatrici who operate in the Amazon region of Alto-Acre, Brazil, continue to offer pastoral service, the reception of girls who want to consecrate themselv ...
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  28 February 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law on reconciliation approved, for the opposition it is only "a disguised amnesty" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday February 26, El Salvador's Congress approved a law to investigate and punish crimes committed during the country's civil war, rejected by human rights defenders and by the pr ...
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  28 February 2020
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The Bishops: without a deep love for the homeland it is impossible to carry out the project of the founding fathers Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that, without a deep love for the homeland, it is impossible to carry out a nation project that reflects the dreams of our founding fathers. Without having a fixed gaze o ...
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  27 February 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Hate, blood and death: a heartfelt SOS to the international community Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again the people of Nicaragua have been smeared with hatred, blood and death. Until when? Nicaragua is no longer a rule of law. The Nicaraguan people are launching a strong and vibrant SOS ...
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  27 February 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Girl killed: being indigenous should not be a reason for discrimination and cruelty Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The National Coordination of Indigenous Pastoral Care (CONAPI) of the Paraguayan Bishops’ Conference "is saddened and repudiates what happened to the indigenous girl found dead, with hands an ...
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  26 February 2020
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishops hope for a peaceful solution to social tension due to the postponment of elections Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The hope that the political crisis that the Dominican Republic is going through will have a peaceful solution was expressed on Sunday, February 23, by the Archbishop of Santiago, Mgr. Freddy de ...
• 25 February 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 February 2020 the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni (Bolivia), presented by His Exc. Mgr Julio María Elías Monto ...
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  25 February 2020
  AMERICA - The Bishops of Mexico and Paraguay: respect women, recognize their rights, promote their dignity Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened by the violence against women, which has expressed itself in a new and aggressive way, so cruel as to generate confusion, pain, bitterness, sadness, tears, indignatio ...
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  24 February 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church recalls the urgency of a law for national reconciliation San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of El Salvador notes and confirms the need for a specific national reconciliation law that guarantees justice to the victims of the armed conflict that bloodied the nati ...
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  20 February 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - A missionary: "As a Church, as missionaries, we invite the leaders of the country to stop criminal activities, in particular kidnappings" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Human Rights Analysis and Research Center in Haiti (CARDH) defined the lack of respect for the rights to life, safety and free mobility in the country as "alarming", due to the situat ...