America

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  26 April 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Beatification of the Martyrs of Quichè: "Inspired by faith in Christ, heroic witnesses of justice and peace" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "This past Friday, in Santa Cruz de Quiché in Guatemala, José Maria Gran Cirera and nine martyr companions were beatified: three priests and seven lay people belonging to the Congregation o ...
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  24 April 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of Vocations: the missionary vocation continues to attract young people who join the Missionaries of Yarumal Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Institute for Foreign Missions of Yarumal (MXY) was founded in 1927 in Yarumal, a town in the diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, for evangelization and missionary work. "Our missionaries are curr ...
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  24 April 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Day of Vocations: despite the economic and social crisis and the pandemic, vocations to the priesthood have increased Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The work of promoting vocations in Venezuela is bearing fruit. This year, despite the full social and economic crisis that the country is going through, aggravated by the pandemic situation caus ...
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  22 April 2021
  AMERICA / CHILE - "Schools closed, but the mission continues even amidst difficulties": the commitment of the Salesians in times of pandemic Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Covid-19 does not stop its race in Chile and in recent months the situation has significantly worsened: although 40% of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, the infect ...
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  22 April 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Commitment of the Church and the UN Food Program to ensure school meals for one and a half million children Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Venezuela and the World Food Program, the United Nations World Food Program, will work together to ensure school meals for one and a half million children. This is what emerged fro ...
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  21 April 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The wealth of indigenous peoples Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Every year from April 19th to 25th Argentina celebrates the "Week of the Indigenous Peoples". The week of action is intended to point out the reality of these peoples, promote commitment to ...
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  21 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three days of closure for Catholic schools and universities: release the kidnapped! Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Haiti (CEH) and the Conference of Haitian Religious have announced the closure of Catholic schools and universities from April 21st to 23rd. Catholic health fac ...
• 21 April 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Victor Livori Grech, MSSP Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 25, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Victor Livori Grech, of the Missionary Society of St. Paul ...
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  20 April 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "It is urgent to work together to find solutions to current emergencies, there is no time for divisions!" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their plenary Assembly, the Mexican bishops published a message addressed "to our beloved Mexican people". Divided into three points, it begins with a look at the current situa ...
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  20 April 2021
  AMERICA - Church Assembly in Latin America: “Listening Phase” begins Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - As part of a so-called “listening phase”, the Church Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean wants to promote the exchange that "will be the leitmotif of the entire process of discernment ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop of Asunción appeals to pharmaceutical companies: "It is not the time to make money at the expense of the sick" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not the time for speculation in order to earn money at the expense of the sick", said Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela of Asunción in an interview with a local newspaper about the diffi ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Special Day of prayer for the situation of the pandemic San José (Agenzia Fides) - Next Thursday, April 22, the bishops of Costa Rica invite its faithful to pray in order to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. During the Holy Mass and the Hours of Adoration, Catholics of the ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The press announces the release of one of the kidnapped on Sunday, April 11 Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the people kidnapped in Haiti last Sunday was reportedly released. Since then, there has been no further news from the kidnappers. A total of nine people are still held hostage", ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops: "We cannot be silent when life is threatened, rights are not respected, justice is corrupt" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Brazil is experiencing the worsening of a serious health, economic, ethical, social and political crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which challenges us, highlighting the structural inequali ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Solidarity and prayer for the victims of kidnappings Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In all ten dioceses of the country, Catholics in Haiti held special masses on Thursday April 15 to show their solidarity with the victims of kidnappings. In the parish of Saint-Pierre in ...