America

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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Oxygen concentrators from Spain to the Peruvian forest Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Archdiocese of Toledo has sent three oxygen concentrators (small machines that obtain oxygen from ambient air) to Peru, to treat patients with Covid-19. The Pastoral Care of Health an ...
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  21 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Half a million lives lost due to Covid: call for national unity in defense of life and democracy Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "If, on the one hand, the death of so many requires respectful silence and the prayers of those who have faith, on the other hand we ask, once again, for national unity in defense of life and d ...
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  21 June 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishop of La Ceiba on the Zedes: "let's defend the common good, let's defend territorial sovereignty and our values" La Ceiba (Agenzia Fides) - The project for the establishment of the "Work and Development Areas", Zede in Spanish (Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico), which affects several regions of Honduras, but above all the de ...
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  19 June 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - May the experience of the pandemic give birth to a new way of caring for immigrants and refugees Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "More than a year has passed since the beginning of the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected all of humanity. More than a year has passed since the people most af ...
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  19 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The murder of Friar Juan Antonio Orozco must not go unpunished, "may his death be a seed of hope" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The systematic violence experienced in the Mexican national territory deriving from the activity of organized crime cannot be made invisible; as well as the little or no commitment and prep ...
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  18 June 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Day of the Missionary Ad gentes: "the light of the Gospel that we bring will be able to illuminate the dark night of the peoples" Puyo (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we want to congratulate and honor those Ecuadorian missionaries who, leaving their land and driven by the Spirit, left their home like Mary for her visit to her cousin Elizabeth, and brought ...
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  18 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado: "contributing to the development of the Amazonian culture according to the values of the Gospel" Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - In a long interview with the magazine "Selvas Amazonicas", of the Dominican Missionaries, sent to Agenzia Fides, Mgr. David Martinez de Aguirre, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pue ...
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  17 June 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Car bomb attack in Cucuta: "nothing justifies these senseless and blind acts", the Church calls for reconciliation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the teaching of the Church, the Bishops proclaim that nothing justifies these foolish and blind acts, which deeply wound human dignity and constitute a very serious offense against all ...
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  17 June 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The law is sovereign and not the will of men": the Bishops after the latest arrests of opponents Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, highlighted yesterday, Wednesday, June 16, that "there are no conditions" for "free and fair elections" in Nicaragua, and called for the "immediate rel ...
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  16 June 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The parish priest in times of pandemic: joint meeting of Bishops and priests Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) has summoned the representatives of the priests of the various ecclesiastical circumscriptions to the II joint Virtual Meeting of Bishops and Priests, t ...
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  16 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Covid: almost 500 thousand deaths, the prayer of the Church and protests in the face of the mismanagement of the pandemic Minas (Agenzia Fides) - Brazil is approaching the tragic threshold of 500 thousand victims of the new coronavirus. In this context of pain and the need for hope and comfort, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil ( ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chavez San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress ma ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Novena to invoke the end of the pandemic and the beatification of Bishop Shaw, great missionary of Chaco Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In the church of the Paraguayan Chaco and in thirty other places in the country, a Novena is being held to call for the end of the pandemic, as requested by Pope Francis, and for the beatificat ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Elections: waiting for results; the Church invites us to be united and be responsible Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the 2021 general elections was held in Peru on Sunday, June 6 and to date, after more than a week, the official results are not yet known. The National Office of Electoral Proce ...
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  14 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Migrant Week: "Who is knocking on our door?" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration and dialogue" is the theme of the 36th Week of Migrants celebrated by the Church of Brazil from June 13 to 20 with the motto "Who is knocking on our door?". The Week is linked to the ...