America

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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 ...
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  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 ...
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  27 February 2023
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Independence Day: Bishops want more honesty and justice in today's society Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us be honest and do justice" is the title of the message that the Dominican Bishops' Conference traditionally publishes on February 27th on the occasion of the 179th anniversary of in ...
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  24 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Chaotic conditions: There has been no news of Father Noah since the kidnapping two weeks ago Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti is marked by hunger, violence, cholera and political instability. The Caribbean island is now a shattered country without institutions, with a starving population and armed gangs th ...
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  21 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Death of the bishop of Los Angeles: housekeeper's husband arrested Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The Los Angeles County authorities have arrested the husband of a woman who worked as a housekeeper for Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, who was found dead in his home in Hacienda Height ...
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  20 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - David O'Connell, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, shot dead Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 18 February the Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, David O'Connell, died in Hacienda Heights. The news was confirmed by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez who emphasizes ...