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  17 November 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Melissa, gangs, thefts, assaults, and kidnappings fail to quell hope for a better life Pourcine-Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – Shootings and violent clashes against the defenseless population continue to be reported. Among the latest incidents is a shootout between U.S. Marines and gang members, following ...
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  11 November 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Tornado devastates the state of Paraná Brasília (Agenzia Fides) – A severe weather front has unleashed the strongest tornado in 40 years, causing widespread destruction and leaving many dead and injured in southern Brazil. The town of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu ...
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  7 November 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pope Leo XIV at the XVII National Missionary Congress: true missionaries "put the leaven of the Risen One in the dough of history" Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - The true missionary shares "faith as one shares bread." Christ Himself draws him close and calls him to "get his hands dirty with the dough of history," so that faith, like leaven, may work "in t ...
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  6 November 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 600 participants at the First National Congress of the Union of the Sick and Elderly Missionaries Abancay (Agenzia Fides) – Over 600 participants from various ecclesiastical jurisdictions in Peru gathered in the Diocese of Abancay for the first “National Congress of the Union of Sick and Elderly Missionaries,” ...
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  5 November 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - “Life is stronger! Hurricane Melissa is moving away from the coast” Jerémie (Agenzia Fides) – “Hurricane Melissa is moving away from our coasts, leaving behind a trail of death, suffering, and devastation, especially in Jamaica and Cuba. In the coming days, weather conditions here s ...
• 4 November 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of bishop vicar apostolic coadjutor of San Ramón Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Pedro Orlando Castro Castro, O.F.M., until now provincial vicar of the Franciscan Province of the Twelve Apostles and parish vicar of Santa Ma ...
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  31 October 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The State has a duty to protect, not to kill.” The Pontifical Mission Societies of Brazil respond to the tragic events in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil have expressed, in a statement sent to Fides, their profound solidarity and sorrow for the recent tragic episodes of violence in Rio de ...
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  28 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Approaching hurricane Melissa": the village of Pourcine Pic-Makaya is on alert Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – "It's approaching, it's raining heavily, but wind and water are forecast especially for this afternoon/evening and tomorrow. Let's hope it won't be too severe!" said Father Massimo ...
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  21 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - When everything plunges into hatred and violence, the people of Pic-Makaya move forward with faith and resilience
  Pourcine Pic-Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis that continues to shake the Haitian people threatens to worsen due to gang violence that displaces entire families, destroys agricu ...
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  21 October 2025
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Father Sánchez at the National Missionary Jubilee: "Mission, the vocation of every baptized person" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – United to renew the missionary vocation and rediscover the beauty of being missionaries. This was the atmosphere on Saturday, October 18, at the National Missionary Jubilee, organized by th ...
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  16 October 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - Amazon Water Summit of the Catholic Church: “We Are Water, We Are Life, We Are Hope” Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – Over 400 delegates gathered for three days in Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon, for the Amazon Water Summit to discuss the protection of water as a fundamental human right and ...
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  10 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Over 200 children begin the school year in Pourcine-PicMakaya. "We are responsible for their education" Pourcine-PicMacaya (Agenzia Fides) – "After three days of integration, each student takes their place in class, and things really get going. The students arrive in large numbers, the teachers are at their desks, and of ...
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  8 October 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The country in a state of emergency. The bishops: "Violence is never the right path to build a better Ecuador" Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Violence is never the right way, declare the Ecuadorian bishops in response to the protests called by CONAIE, the main organization of the indigenous movement in Ecuador, against the increase in ...
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  7 October 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missing priest found dead: murder investigation underway Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The body of Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, the priest reported missing on Saturday, October 4, in Cocula, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, has been found. The body of the priest, wh ...
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  2 October 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The new school year begins at the parish school in Pourcine-Pic-Macaya Pourcine Pic-Macaya (Agenzia Fides) – "Without quality education, there is no future for Haiti and for our small but resilient mountain community," said missionary Father Massimo Miraglio of the Order of the Ministers ...