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6 May 2009
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Fundamental criteria from the Bishops for responsible citizenship this election year
Florida (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Paraguay have issued an important document at the close of their Plenary Assembly celebrated last week, offering fundamental criteria for the faithful to use evangelical discern ...
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6 May 2009
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - CELAM Meeting May 12-16, to evaluate Continental Mission
Managua (Agenzia Fides) – On May 12-16, Managua's Interdiocesan Seminary of Our Lady of Fatima will host the 32nd Meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM). News of the event was released in a briefing ...
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6 May 2009
AMERICA/PERU - “La Barca” Youth Catholic Association launches programs on “Gozo Radio,” evangelizing with music and promoting international events
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – “La Barca” Youth Catholic Association was founded in 2002 in Peru, with the goal of evangelizing through the mass media, with particular focus on music, organizing events, concerts, social ga ...
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5 May 2009
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops' Conference asks government to clarify facts regarding the origin of a document that seeks to discredit the Church by portraying Bishops as corrupt and ambitious
Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, the Nicaraguan Bishops' Conference (CEN) asked the government, led by Daniel Ortega, to “clarify facts regarding the origin” of the document “The Relationship between the Chur ...
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5 May 2009
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Church calls for migration reform that respects the rights and dignity of migrants
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - “We unite ourselves to the migrants and their families, who are currently suffering from the restrictions established by migration policies. May they count on our prayers and our strugg ...
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4 May 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Lack of vocations, religious formation, increase in violence and drugs, social inequality, corruption...among the main challenges concerning Bishops
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Vice-President Luis Hector Villalba, Vice-President of the Argentinean Bishops' Conference and Archbishop of Tucuman, presented the Holy Father Benedict XVI with the main challenges facin ...
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4 May 2009
AMERICA/MEXICO - Masses canceled again in the Archdiocese; Cardinal Rivera calls for precaution and complying with recommendations from health authorities
Mexican City (Agenzia Fides) – Once again, the bells of Mexico City parishes have not been calling the faithful to Mass, as Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera has declared “with obligatory character” the cancellation ...
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29 April 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Final Message from the Bishops at the close of their Plenary Assembly: “Our nation is Christian; it wants to continue being Christian and this is evident in many ways.”
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Bolivia issued a message at the close of the 87th Plenary Assembly celebrated on April 23-28. During their Assembly, on April 26, there was a launching of the national missio ...
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29 April 2009
AMERICA/CHILE - Message from the Bishops at the close of their Plenary Assembly: “The country cannot renounce the great values on which it has been built, values that the Church declares irrevocable.”
Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – In the final message at the close of the 97th Plenary Assembly held April 20-24, the Chilean Bishops' Conference (CECh) once more called to mind the fact that “the Church, disciple of the ...
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28 April 2009
AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Church in Ecuador officially launches the National Mission: “The Church is in need of a good house-cleaning.”
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Ecuador officially began the National Mission with a Mass concelebrated in the Basilica “del Voto Nacional,” on April 23, during the celebration of the Plenary Assembl ...
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28 April 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Priest receives death threats for speaking out against the “de facto decriminalization” of drugs and authorities' indifference towards youth
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Jose Maria Di Paola, better known as “Fr. Pepe,” has received death threats following the recent publication of a document in which local priests denounced the “de facto decrimi ...
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27 April 2009
AMERICA/MEXICO - Alert for swine flu: Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera has called for a Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe, asking that she free the city and the country from danger
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Secretariat of Health has issued a public alert on the outbreak of the swine flu, which has led the Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM) to issue a statement to the faithful and the popul ...
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27 April 2009
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Pilgrimage for young people, calling for an end to violence and kidnapping in the country
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – The city of El Paraiso welcomed over 5,000 youth on April 26, who had left Tegucigalpa last Friday, passing through Danli and then on to El Paraiso, in a pilgrimage calling for an end to ...
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27 April 2009
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops concerned for the polarization of positions and decision-making that goes against the spirit and letter of the Constitution
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - “Venezuela has a future! And we should all contribute in building it. This is why all of us should recognize the existence of those who are not with us, those who think differently.” This is ...
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24 April 2009
AMERICA/MEXICO - Message from the Bishops at the close of Plenary Assembly: “may the parishes become centers for a greater radiation of life in Christ, from whence a permanent mission can emerge.”
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “We take up the invitation made in the Aparecida Document, renewing out parishes so they can become authentic areas of Christian initiation, faith formation and celebration, in which the l ...
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