America

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  14 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Priest of the Clerics of St. Viator kidnapped Croix des Bouquets (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jean-Yves Medidor, priest of the Clerics of St. Viator, a collaborator in the Christ-Roi le Meilleur parish of Port-au-Prince, was kidnapped in Croix des Bouquets. The news was ...
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  14 March 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Fraternity Campaign: born in the Catholic Church, but wants to address the whole of Brazilian society Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, March 13, a solemn session of the plenary session of the House of Representatives was held in Brasilia, dedicated to the Campaign for Fraternity 2023, whose theme is "Fraternity and ...
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  10 March 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Let's break the silence that kills": live with dignity in working-class neighborhoods, fight against drug addiction and its consequences Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - "We are creating a para-state which does not change every four years and which, over time, consolidates its power and its financial structure, offering weapons, lawyers, protections and many oth ...
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  9 March 2023
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Indigenous peoples are called to become co-responsible for the evangelization of their brothers Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite all the limitations that the environment imposes on the evangelizing mission among indigenous communities, there is great pastoral vitality and significant efforts to continue on ...
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  8 March 2023
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The evangelizing mission of the Catholic school: towards the Global Educational Pact Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Paraguayan education system is faced with problematic situations such as lack of free education, limited access to technology and social inequality, among others. In this context, the commitm ...
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  7 March 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Our society needs to transform, to change, we cannot wait for someone to start doing it Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "This season of Lent must be a time to transform our existence, our way of life more than anything else", urged Msgr. René Leigue, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in his Sunday homily ...
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  6 March 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Indigenous Peoples Commission demands the truth about the murder of leader Eduardo Mendua Dureno (Agenzia Fides) - Eduardo Mendúa, indigenous leader in the Amazon territory, was assassinated on Sunday afternoon, February 26, in Dureno, in the province of Sucumbios, in the northern region of the Ecuadorian Am ...
• 4 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - UN report: modern weapons smuggled into Haiti by the United States Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500,000 illegal firearms could be in circulation in Haiti. This is the figure given in the report published yesterday, March 3, by the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drug Traff ...
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  4 March 2023
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Restoration of the ancient Jesuit churches, renewal of the Pastoral care of education and beatification of the missionary Bishop Pedro Shaw Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Paraguay has experienced two important meetings in recent days: the second synodal meeting "Walking together" on February 27 and 28, with all the bishops of Paraguay, the pastoral ...
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  3 March 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Two hundred migrant families integrated into society in two years of life of Casa Bom Samaritano Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God for these two years and we are happy that all the families who stayed in the Bom Samaritano house left the house with the certainty that at least one person in the family has a jo ...
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  2 March 2023
  AMERICA - Summit of the Presidents of the Amazon Region: "We have to face great challenges and have little time to act" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the Amazon World Assembly (AMA) and the Panamanian Social Forum (FOSPA) published on March 1st a joint letter addressed to the Presidents of the Ama ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - After 46 years, investigations into the death of Bishop Carlos Ponce de Leon are reopened Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Appeal of Rosario overturned a 1978 judgment that caused the death of Bishop Carlos Horacio Ponce de León of San Nicolas classified as the result of a road accident. This a ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Growing up (and studying) in the Peruvian Amazon. The boys and girls of the “St. Clotilde Boarding School” St. Clotilde (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than two hundred boys and girls will attend the “St. Clotilde Boarding School”: 114 girls and 98 boys. For ten months a year the boarding school becomes their home. They ...
• 28 February 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 26, 2023, after an interim period (see Fides, 28/10/2022), Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed His Exc. Msgr. Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Meyer, Auxiliary Bishop of the Ar ...
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  28 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Claretian missionary kidnapped in Haiti released Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "On February 17, after 10 days of kidnapping, he miraculously escaped from his captors", reports to Fides Father Fausto Cruz Rosa cmf, Superior of the Claretian Missionaries of the Antill ...