America

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  8 August 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Support for the Church in Nicaragua on behalf of American Catholics Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued the following statement: "Alongside Pope ...
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  7 August 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Creating spaces for dialogue, conflict is not Bolivian culture", Mgr. Centellas celebrates Te Deum for 195 years of independent life Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, Mgr.Ricardo Centellas, presided over the Eucharist of thanksgiving during the 195 years of Bolivia's independent life, this Thursday 6 August, i ...
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  6 August 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The bishops on the political crisis in the Country: "This is the worst time to cause a new crisis" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From large private companies to trade unions and the Catholic Church, everyone has asked the Executive and the Congress of Peru to immediately overcome the serious political crisis that the Country ...
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  6 August 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Letter from 152 bishops to criticize the management of the government Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 152 bishops from Brazil, about a third of the total members of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has published a "Letter to the People of God", in which serious criticisms are made ...
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  5 August 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The Amazon needs you", real help to the Amazonian peoples Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Almost three months after its launch, the "The Amazon needs you" campaign (See Fides, 19/05/2020) has collected over 700 thousand reais and this week provides a bulletin for the actions carried ...
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  5 August 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian solidarity: 100 dining rooms for 10,000 people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has transferred the funds raised during the campaign "For a Peru without hunger", a great crusade of national solidarity, to the 100 dining rooms to assist the most needy people sufferin ...
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  4 August 2020
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa on the pandemic: "sensitivity, unity, solidarity and generosity must prevail" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in a moment in which the great sense of sensitivity, unity, solidarity and generosity that will allow us to overcome the challenges as a country must prevail", are the words o ...
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  1 August 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Sisters of Don Orione alongside young people to "help them get out of the vicious circle of addictions" San Juan Bautista (Agenzia Fides) - "Since arriving in the locality of San Juan Bautista two years ago, we have been working in different sectors of society and specifically with young people: the goal is prevention and ...
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  1 August 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Missionary Childhood Day: growing in holiness through daily experiences Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 2 August the Day of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence, JONIAM2020, is celebrated in Paraguay, on the theme "May it be done to me according to your Word" ("Hágase en mi según tu ...
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  31 July 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Letter to legislators: "Is deciding for yourself when to die a human right?" Minas (Agenzia Fides) - "Today more than ever we need an enthusiastic collective project in Uruguay: our biggest problem is the lack of population". This is what Mgr. Jaime Fuentes, Bishop Emeritus of Minas wrote in an o ...
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  31 July 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The National Council of Churches recognizes religious freedom in Cuba Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The National Council of Churches (NCC) of the United States recognized the religious freedom existing in Cuba, and criticized the government of Donald Trump for blacklisting Cuba for serious ...
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  31 July 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Vicariate of Pando sends breathing apparatus to the most distant medical centers Pando (Agenzia Fides) - Sixteen oxygen concentrators were sent by Mgr. Eugenio Coter, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pando, to the medical centers in the rural area. The purchase of these medical devices was made p ...
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  30 July 2020
  AMERICA - Patriarchal culture, economic model, unjust laws: religious life against human trafficking Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to the universal community to raise its voice against the phenomenon of human trafficking and denounce the different expressions of the commercialization of life, an expression of mod ...
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  30 July 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A priest in Michoacan seriously wounded Michoacan (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Agustin Patiño was wounded with 15 stab wounds while he was in the parish house in Briseñas, Michoacan, by 3 criminals who entered with the intention to steal. According to an initial ...
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  30 July 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Parish priest found dead San Miguel (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Monday 27 July, the faithful who, through the social networks of Santander, in the municipality of San Miguel, were waiting to attend the 6pm mass, received the news of th ...