America

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  25 June 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Diploma in Mission Ad Gentes for 22 missionaries: opportunity to prepare the Extraordinary Missionary Month Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the preparation for the Missionary Year, organized by the Colombian Bishops' Conference (CEC), inspired by the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019, the Missionary An ...
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  25 June 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Community sport: school of inclusion, prevention and strengthening of the social fabric Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Many communities in the country are in difficulty in trying to prevent the problem of addiction regarding children and young people, which is particularly dramatic and widespread in the cou ...
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  24 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Surveys reveal the worrying increase regarding the Mexican's impatience towards migrants Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Surveys on the opinion of Mexicans regarding migrants in the national territory continue to increase, the results are then disseminated by the media. In five months, from November 2018 to Ap ...
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  24 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Archbishop Garfías Merlos: "Young people are a key element in building peace" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The origin of violence in Mexico is the absence of God in the individual and community life of people, which makes them inhuman and cruel". Thus Mgr. Carlos Garfías Merlos, Archbishop of M ...
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  24 June 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops meet with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The serious crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, which caused the mass exodus of many Venezuelans, was the subject of the Bishops’ meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...
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  21 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The request for asylum has become a Via crucis for migrants Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "A migration strategy that can go beyond the imposition of tariffs that cause the militarization of borders or the raising of human walls as an immediate response, must be based on human rig ...
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  19 June 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - "Welcoming Christ in refugees": let us not be carried away by voices that encourage xenophobia, discrimination and fear Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Refugees are people who flee conflict and persecution, are protected by international law, because of their particular vulnerability, and should not be expelled or returned to situations where the ...
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  19 June 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Alarm of Justice and peace for increased human trafficking, especially young women Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The Justice and Peace Commission and Caritas urge the authorities of the National Public Power to investigate, prosecute, and convict those responsible for human trafficking crimes; to guarante ...
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  18 June 2019
  AMERICA MEXICO - Shooting in Church, catechist killed; the Bishops reaffirm their commitment to building peace Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - A catechist instructor was shot dead in the municipality of Acacoyagua, in a chapel in Chiapas state - another example of how the violence consuming Mexico is impacting the Catholic Church. The ...
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  18 June 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Habla Quibdó": media will make itself available to communities to talk about violence and problems Quibdó (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 19 June, from 7 to 10 am, the social media of Quibdó and the community will be the main protagonists of the "Habla Quibdó" campaign, which aims to open spaces so that people can c ...
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  17 June 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: violence has reached terrifying levels, people are afraid to denounce Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - For almost two years he has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura in Colombia, and he has already had to deal with violent groups that have sown terror in the area. Archbishop Rub ...
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  17 June 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Migration and public policies": 34th National Migrant Week San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - The 34th Migrant Week began yesterday, Sunday, June 16, throughout the country, which will end on Sunday 23. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, the theme of the week is as always ...
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  17 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The unpunished killings of priests, considered "social stabilizers" that disturb organized crime Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Catholic Multimedia Center (CCM), violence against priests is not a direct expression of hatred of faith, but a desire for "social destabilization". "The priest and parish c ...
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  14 June 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - President of the Rural Workers Union assassinated: violence and murders in the Amazon increase Parà (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazon ecclesiastical network (REPAM) of Brazil repudiates the violent action and the attack that killed leader, Carlos Cabral Pereira, president of the Union of Rural Workers (STR the acr ...
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  14 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops ask the authorities to intervene: Two young people kidnapped and killed in a few days Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent times we have experienced situations of great violence that have been a real ordeal for citizens and for many families in different parts of the country": says the Bishops’ Conf ...