America

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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Protomatyrs of Brazil: examples of Eucharistic devotion, faithfulness to the Church and missionary commitment Rio Grande do Norte (Agenzia Fides) - There is great joy in Rio Grande do Norte after the news that the canonization of the Protomartyrs of Brazil will take place on 15 October: André de Soveral, Ambrosio Francisco Ferr ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "The judicial elections must not be politically manipulated" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has asked through a brief message of its Secretary, Fr. José Fuentes, addressed to the civil community and the Bolivian government that the judicial electi ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Qali Warma: breakfast and lunch for pupils in the poorest area of the Apurimac Abancay (Agenzia Fides) - There are altogether 1,334 public school institutions that belong to the extreme poverty areas of the Peruvian region of the Apurímac which receive food from the Qali Warma National School of F ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Three dead and millions of protesters; For the Bishops: "civil and peaceful protest is not a crime, it is a right!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Civil and peaceful protest is not a crime. It is a right! Its control cannot be an excessive repression", says the statement of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela published yesterday. Numerou ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "0 street children" program: education and rehabilitation Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With the intention of preventing children under 12 years of age living in the street, the Office for the Protection of Childhood and Adolescence of the City of Cochabamba, is carrying out the ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016": 1,295 cases, 61 murders Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016", drawn up by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), at the headquarters of the Episcopal Conference (CNBB), in Brasilia was presented. 1,29 ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 35-year-old priest dies due to the lack of medicines Merida (Agenzia Fides) – On Holy Saturday, April 15, according to information sent to Fides from Merida (Venezuela), father José Luis Arismendi, 35, died due to the lack of medicines. For two days the priest waited fo ...
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  12 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Holy Week of solidarity: Miranda food sharing Los Teques (Agenzia Fides) – "We live in very difficult times marked by scarcity of medicines and security: we must turn our hearts back towards God, He alone can help us overcome these tragic times. And we must ope ...
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  12 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “To run for re-election is inopportune and a threat to peace”, says Bishop Jubinville San Pedro (Agenzia Fides) – “Inopportune and a threat to peace”. This is how the Bishop of San Pedro, Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., regards a proposed bill to change Paraguay’s Constitution, in order to al ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Another evangelical church is torched Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the diocese of Temuco, Héctor Vargas has firmly condemned the latest act of torching of yet another Evangelical church building in the district of Ercilla, yesterday. The gover ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop Valenzuela insists on dialogue, 18 April peace talks third session Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 10 April Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid S.D.B., of Asunción, called on parties opposed to plans for presidential re-election, to reflect and participate in the Dialo ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Franciscan brother murdered, food provisions for old people and disabled children stolen Aragua (Agenzia Fides) –Franciscan Brother Diego Bedoya, a member of Hermanos Franciscanos de la Cruz Blanca (White Cross Franciscan Brothers) who runs Casa Hogar in the town of La Victoria, Aragua state of Venezuela, ...
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  10 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - At the heart of the Peruvian forest prayers are offered for the victims of terrorism in Egypt Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community in Iquitos, a town at the heart of Peru’s Amazon forest, offered special prayers during yesterday’s Palm Sunday mass for a political and social solution to be foun ...
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  10 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “We must defend our rights but without using violence” says Cardinal Urosa Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – "We must keep calm, acting in a rational manner, seeking the understanding of others. We have said this in many recent messages issued by our Bishops’ Conference: we must defend our rights a ...
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  7 April 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Letter of the Bishop of Posadas: "Christian hope must make us responsible in defending our rights" Posadas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Posadas, His Exc. Mgr. Juan Rubén Martínez, in preparation for the celebrations of Holy Week, published a letter in which he writes that "it would be hypocritical ...