America

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  1 October 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Three nuns die due to Covid-19 in their service of assistance for the abandoned elderly Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - Sister María Hilda Arteaga Flores, Sister María Isabel Agip Sánchez and Sister Asunción Bravo Rivas, of the Congregation of the Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados (Little Sisters of the A ...
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  1 October 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National survey (ENCOVI): poverty at the highest levels, employment decreases, only 5% of emigrants return Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In the last year, extreme poverty has increased in Venezuela by more than 8%, formal employment has lost 1.3 million jobs and educational coverage has decreased by 5%. These are the data collect ...
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  30 September 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Value of life and dignity of the human person are an essential and inalienable foundation of life in society Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The value of life and the dignity of the human person are an essential and inalienable foundation of life in society" underline the Chilean Bishops after the approval of the bill by the Chambe ...
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  29 September 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The cause of beatification of Fr. Luigi Bolla, a missionary among the indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Peru, has been opened Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 27th, the diocesan process for the beatification and canonization of Father Luigi Bolla (born 1932 in Schio, Italy, and died 2013 in Lima, Peru) was opened in the Archdiocese o ...
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  29 September 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Archbishop Escobar Alas: no to constitutional reform according to an international project on abortion and euthanasia San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, disapproved last Sunday, September 26, of the constitutional reform proposals in which reference is made to abortion and euthanasia. ...
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  28 September 2021
  AMERICA/CANADA - Prayer is the foundation of all effective mission animation, not only for Mission Sunday, but all year round Mississauga (Agenzia Fides) - After a two-year break due to restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Director, Fr. Alex Osei, CSSp, and the Diocesan Directors and their collaborators of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  28 September 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops for the elections: "exercise the duty and the right to vote, which is an achievement of our democracy" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "In a context of concern, anguish and pain that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to so many families in our country and which has exacerbated a number of problems in our society, we appeal to ...
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  27 September 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "It is necessary to heal the serious wounds inflicted on nature" urges Archbishop Gualberti Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to change our mentality and adopt an ecological spirituality, to stop the irrational exploitation of non-renewable natural resources, wild deforestation, forest fires, even o ...
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  27 September 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Violence against migrants: "We cannot allow a new epidemic, this time of hatred, racism and xenophobia" Iquique (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, September 24, the police forces evicted the former Plaza Brasil in the city of Iquique where groups of Venezuelan migrants had camped out who in recent weeks have been arriving in lar ...
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  25 September 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Migrant Day, the Social Pastoral Care-Caritas recalls that over 5 million Venezuelans have emigrated to different countries Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Every year on the last Sunday of September, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees is celebrated. "Towards an ever wider 'we' " is the motto chosen by Pope Francis for the day of September 26, w ...
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  24 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The kerygma as the central point of evangelization Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - With the aim of continuing the commitment of evangelization in these times of pandemic and post-pandemic, the Center for Missionary Animation of the Bishops' Conference of Colombia launched an ed ...
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  24 September 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church is always available to collaborate with the State in the social, educational and health sectors, for the common good Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The presidency of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference on September 22 had a meeting with the president of the Congress of the Republic, María del Carmen Alva Prieto, at the structures of the Congres ...
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  24 September 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "I have always acted for the defense of freedom, justice and the rights of the Venezuelan people": the spiritual testament of Cardinal Urosa Savino Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, September 23, Cardinal Baltazar Porras, on behalf of the Archdiocese of Caracas, announced the death of Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop Emeritus of Caracas, which was followed ...
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  23 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Exploitation and human trafficking are "chains that generate so much destruction in the world" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Human trafficking and sexual exploitation are two closely related phenomena and occur in many parts of the world, they affect people of all ages, but especially minors who, in situations of vul ...
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  23 September 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The relics of "Chiquitunga", the first Paraguayan Blessed, return to their homeland Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - It was a great mobilization, perhaps the largest since Paraguay experienced the pandemic, that of the Catholic faithful to welcome the relics of María Felicia de Jesús Sacramentado, known as ...