America

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  10 July 2025
  AMERICA/USA - California: Illegal immigrants also "taken" from parishes San Bernardino (Agenzia Fides) – They are being taken from the streets or public places, and even from parish churches. In California, the policy of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which carries out h ...
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  9 July 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Integrating the language of the head, the heart, and the hands: meeting of Catholic Educators Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – “To establish a joint network throughout the country and establish common priorities for educational pastoral care in schools, based on listening to different realities” was the objec ...
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  8 July 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The children of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní celebrate their Jubilee Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) – “Children and adolescents, you know Jesus, now go and invite other children.” With these simple words, Monsignor Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas, Apostolic Vicar of Caroní since Ap ...
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  7 July 2025
  AMERICA/USA - The religious connotations of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an organization responsible for distributing food to the population of Gaza, has been led since June 3 by evangelical preacher Johnnie Moore Jr., considered ...
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  2 July 2025
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Shots fired at dawn in the streets of Villahermosa: Priest seriously injured Villahermosa (Agenzia Fides) – The parish priest of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Father Héctor Alejandro Pérez, remains in critical condition at the Rovirosa Hospital in Villahermosa. The priest was shot seve ...
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  21 June 2025
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Salesians distribute work kits to fishermen in difficulty after the environmental disaster in Esmeraldas Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) – On March 13, 2025, a pipeline rupture in the province of Esmeraldas, northwest Ecuador, caused a huge amount of oil to spill into the river of the same name, which gives the region its name ...
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  17 June 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - The humanitarian situation remains catastrophic: people are not giving up hope for a better future Pourcine-Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) - "Behind every number stands a person whose suffering is immeasurable: children, mothers, the elderly, many of whom have been forced to leave their homes more than once, often with on ...
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  16 June 2025
  AMERICA/CHILE - Curacautín, arson attack: San Francisco chapel destroyed again Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – “With deep sorrow”, the Diocese of Temuco joins the Catholic community of Curacautín, where “another arson attack has devastated the San Francisco chapel, in the town of Radal ...
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  16 June 2025
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "President of Peace": Violeta Chamorro, dies in exile Managua (Agenzia Fides) - She marked the history of her country as a symbol of democracy. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was the woman who defeated Ortega in Nicaragua and the first woman elected President in the Americas o ...
• 12 June 2025
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Appointment of bishop of La Ceiba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jenrry Johel Velásquez Hernández, of the clergy of Comayagua, until now rector of the Cristo Sumo Sacerdote Major Seminary in Comayagua, as bish ...
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  6 June 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - State and Church united to respond to the educational emergency in the Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón Oventeni (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 120 students between the ages of 12 and 18 from the 48 indigenous Ashéninka communities in Gran Pajonal are hosted during the school year at the Oventeni student residence, in th ...
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  29 May 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian Crisis: Salesian missionaries provide meals to 2,300 young Haitians Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In a context where the humanitarian and social crisis seems to have no end, the Salesian missionaries are committed to ensuring adequate nutrition for adolescent boys and girls. In coll ...
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  19 May 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - In an atmosphere of celebration, joy and gratitude, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrated 125 years of presence in the country Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – On April 29, 2025, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), together with young people, lay people and the Salesian Family, celebrated the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the firs ...
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  10 May 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies: Pope Leo XIV is a Man of God and a missionary Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - Affection, gratitude, and emotion. These are the feelings that resonate in the words of Father José Hipolito Purizaca Sernaque, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru, w ...
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  8 May 2025
  AMERICA/PERU - "No matarás": the country's bishops condemn the murder of a group of workers at the hands of criminal gangs Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we reaffirm our call to build a society in which life is respected and the dignity of every person is protected, and development is accompanied by justice, honesty, and charity," said ...