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ACI Digital (www.acidigital.com) is a service of EWTN News Inc. It is the Portuguese news service of the ACI Group, headed by the Catholic news agency ACI Prensa. ACI Prensa was initially founded in Lima, Peru, on March 13, 1980, by the German Comboni missionary Adalberto Maria Mohn (+1987). ACI Digital has been offering Portuguese-speaking readers Catholic news since 1997.
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Brazil’s Congress nixes government funding of abortions, sex changes for minors
Dec 27, 2023 / 11:55 amThe measure was proposed by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, and approved in the House by a vote of 305-14.
Nuncio asks Brazil bishop who criticized Amazon synod to leave prelature
Dec 13, 2023 / 18:00 pmThe apostolic nuncio in Brazil has asked Bishop Emeritus José Luis Azcona Hermoso to no longer live in the territory of the Prelature of Marajó.
The first church dedicated to the Miraculous Medal is in South America
Nov 27, 2023 / 04:30 amOur Lady’s intercession is credited with ending a prolonged period of drought in the town of Monte Sião, Brazil, in the 1930s.
Pope Francis says his Argentinian friends may be among Hamas attack victims
Oct 17, 2023 / 10:30 amIsraeli journalist Henrique Cymerman posted on his social networks a video of the telephone conversation he had with the pope on Saturday, Oct. 14.
Brazilian bishops’ bioethics commission condemns attempt to decriminalize abortion
Oct 6, 2023 / 18:00 pmThe commission declared that “no circumstance, no purpose, no law in the world can ever make an act licit that is intrinsically illicit...”
Brazil’s Supreme Court rules anti-homosexual slurs are punishable by prison
Aug 24, 2023 / 09:30 amWith the decision, transphobia and homophobia will be punished with sentences of two to five years of imprisonment in addition to the payment of a fine.
Bishops of Brazil encourage prayers to prevent liberalization of abortion
Aug 10, 2023 / 16:00 pmA lawsuit calling for the decriminalization of abortion in the country is now before the Federal Supreme Court and could be ruled on in October.
What’s so unique about Mouraria, the Lisbon neighborhood mentioned by Pope Francis this week?
Aug 4, 2023 / 16:30 pmThe approximately 6,000 inhabitants of the neighborhood today come from dozens of different countries.
Brazilian missionary developed her vocation by following Pope Francis’ WYD events
Jul 31, 2023 / 14:40 pmDaiane Silva Pereira has been to three World Youth Days and is now at WYD Lisbon with members of her new religious community.
Brazil congresswoman launches rosary campaign amid ‘serious threat’ of legalized abortion
Jul 19, 2023 / 16:00 pmTwo bishops as well as priests, artists, intellectuals, and Catholic politicians are scheduled to participate in the live event.
Tomb of beatified Brazilian priest damaged in apparent robbery attempt
May 6, 2022 / 17:00 pmThe tomb of Blessed Donizetti Tavares de Lima was damaged during an apparent robbery attempt last weekend in Brazil.
Cardinal criticizes Brazilian presidential candidate Lula for contradictory statement on abortion
Mar 29, 2022 / 14:37 pmCardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, has described the statement on abortion made by Brazilian presidential candidate and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as "unfortunate."
City councilman in Brazil who led protest interrupting Mass asks for leave of absence
Feb 21, 2022 / 18:00 pmRenato Freitas, a city councilman for Curitiba who led a protest interrupting Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary church in the city, has asked for a leave of absence, citing health problems.
Catholic doctors thank Portugal's president for vetoing euthanasia bill
Dec 3, 2021 / 16:21 pmThe Association of Portuguese Catholic Doctors on Tuesday thanked President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for vetoing the euthanasia bill passed by the Portuguese parliament in November, and reaffirmed that as healthcare providers "they cannot be agents of death."
Vatican: Minors living in homes of Heralds of the Gospel must return to their families
Sep 9, 2021 / 17:13 pmThe Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has decreed that minors living at homes of the Heralds of the Gospel are to return to their families.
Six nuns from the same convent die in less than a week
Sep 7, 2021 / 16:31 pmSix nuns in the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family of Mary congregation in Curitiba, Brazil, died in less than a week, five of them from COVID-19.
Brazilian priest denounces teaching of polyamory in school
Jul 8, 2021 / 15:00 pmWhen Fr. Chrystian Shankar, a priest serving at the diocesan shrine dedicated to Friar Galvão in Divinopolis, learned from a mother in the community that her child had been given classes in school on polyamory, he denounced the practice in his June 18 sermon.