America

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  6 August 2025
  Coups, Chaos and Haiti’s Tragic Collapse By Victor Gaetan Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “Hell in Haiti” declares a headline in the British Daily Mail last week. It recounts how dead bodies litter streets, typically murdered by gangs controlling over 9 ...
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  5 August 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - A lay missionary and a three-year-old boy among the 9 people kidnapped during the armed attack on an orphanage Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A lay missionary and a three-year-old child with a disability are among the nine people kidnapped by an armed group that attacked an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on the mor ...
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  5 August 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on the El Teniente tragedy: "Work should be a source of dignity and human development, not death" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "We join in the days of national mourning for the tragic deaths of Paulo, Gonzalo, Jean, Álex, Carlos, and Moisés in prayer and the celebration of Masses," said Cardinal Fernando Gar ...
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  30 July 2025
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Augustinian priest released 40 days after his disappearance Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) – Forty days after his disappearance, Carlos Saúl Jaimes Guerrero, an Augustinian priest belonging to the Province of Our Lady of Grace, has been released. The priest's religious community anno ...
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  29 July 2025
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Archbishop Nácher and Evangelical Leaders call for a march for democracy and peace Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – Amid a climate of growing electoral tension, Catholics and Evangelicals in Honduras have called for a march for peace to be held on August 16. “Hearing the cries of our brothers and s ...
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  28 July 2025
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - National Meeting of Basic Ecclesial Communities Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – After several years of suspension, the Basic Ecclesial Communities (CEB) in Guatemala held their national meeting. "We are CEB united in hope, to transform reality," reads a statemen ...
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  27 July 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CAM7: In 2029, the Brazilian Church will host the American Missionary Congress in Curitiba Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – After 34 years, the Church in Brazil will once again host the American Missionary Congress (CAM7). The Archdiocese of Curitiba, located in Paraná, southern Brazil, has been chosen as the sit ...
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  25 July 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - The faithful of Chiclayo celebrate with Primate Castillo the Conclave document that elected Pope Leo XIV Chiclayo (Agenzia Fides) – “The Conclave document that I deliver to you will be like a relic, because it is there that we placed all our votes, and it is one of the most important memories that Robert Prevost left us ...
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  24 July 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The local Church's commitment to the dignity and rights of migrants Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the physical and symbolic barriers faced by migrants, the Church in Paraguay puts into practice the four verbs proposed by Pope Francis: welcome, protect, promote, and integrate. ...
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  24 July 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Pontifical Society of Saint Peter the Apostle at the V COMINSE, the National Missionary Congress of Seminarians Teresina (Agenzia Fides) – "On behalf of this Dicastery, we come to tell you, seminarians, that the universal Church loves you, that she appreciates your courageous enthusiasm, your resolute 'yes' to the Lord's call, d ...
• 24 July 2025
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 26, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father José Albe ...
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  23 July 2025
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The first summit of the U.S. Catholic Mission Association in Milwaukee Waukesha (Agenzia Fides) – Today and tomorrow, the United States Catholic Mission Association (USCMA), in collaboration with the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and t ...
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  23 July 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - World Day against Trafficking in Persons: Mobilizing society against situations that hide exploitation Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Breaking the silence and dispelling the myths surrounding human trafficking, promoting recognition of this reality in everyday contexts that often go unnoticed. This is the objective of the c ...
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  22 July 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Dialogue as a means of conflict resolution: solidarity of the Aboriginal Pastoral Care with the Mapuche communities Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) – “Let all forms of violence and, above all, the criminalization of the ongoing protest cease immediately. Social peace is only possible through dialogue as a tool to address different social ...
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  17 July 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Father Mario Lanciotti, Xaverian missionary, among myths, tales, and legends of the indigenous people of the Amazon by Gianluca Frinchillucci Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A new light is shining on missionary witness among the peoples of the Amazon. Professor Mario Polia, anthropologist, historian of religions, and profound expert on ...