America
20 October 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - "The Mission and the challenges of the New Evangelization": Chile celebrates World Mission Sunday
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In view of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Chile have prepared a full calendar of activities at a national level, with a clear aim: "To awaken and renew the commitm ...
20 October 2011
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Bill: Churches can also collect illegal weapons
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of different Puerto Rican Churches have positively welcomed the draft law providing for an amnesty of 60 days during which anyone with a weapon, can deliver it to the police or chur ...
19 October 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA- A member of the Social Pastoral, committed to the farmers and builders of peace in Popayan was assassinated
Popayan (Agenzia Fides) - The National Secretariat of the Social Pastoral of the Bishops' Conference of Colombia issued a statement of solidarity with Luis Eduardo Garcia’s family, leader of the group of Popayan, assas ...
19 October 2011
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Missionary Congresses, conferences, peace marches, missionary rosaries in parishes: Nicaragua prepares itself for World Mission Day
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the celebration of World Mission Sunday 2011 (Domund), the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Nicaragua have started the preparation for this great missionary celebration since th ...
18 October 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - Forum "Migration and Peace": promoting human dignity and peaceful coexistence as a universal right for all
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 and 21 October 2011, as part of the National Week of the Migrant, the third International Forum on Migration and Peace will be held in Mexico City, organized by the National Institute ...
18 October 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - At the start the anti-corruption plan; the Cardinal of Monterrey: "clean house completely"
Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Monterrey, defined the anti-corruption plan proposed by governor Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz very positive and addressed in the right direc ...
17 October 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA-The march for peace: a Catholic response to the wave of violence that kills 18 Guatemalans every day
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala (Guatemala), Mgr. Oscar Julio Vian Morales has invited the community to participate in the "March for Peace" and the Eucharist to be held on Octobe ...
17 October 2011
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church assists more than 3,500 people affected by torrential rains
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - It has been raining constantly for 8 days and this phenomenon has devastated El Salvador causing 32 deaths so far. The danger now is landslides in areas of low mountains, floodings in citi ...
15 October 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Fraud and buying votes": Bishops alert the population and the authorities
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the Church is present even in the farthest corner of Colombia, we know of vote buying, voter migration, counterfeit ballots and the fact that even the dead start to vote. We stress that no ...
14 October 2011
AMERICA - "The Church in Latin America is alive, despite the difficult situation in different countries": interview with His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, President of CELAM
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From October 6 to 12, the members of the Presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), led by their President, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), ...
14 October 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Monitoring program for victims of violence in Colombia
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Official statistics speak of 3 million people who have been dispossessed from their lands and properties in Colombia because of armed conflicts that have affected the country for years. The prote ...
14 October 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - While the country is experiencing a climate of high tension, the Bishops stress that "dialogue is the path to solve problems"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia issued a separate statement to help calm the tense atmosphere that lives in the country. In the note sent to Fides, together with the Bishops’ statement, we ...
13 October 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionaries from 11 countries are studying the Brazilian reality in which they will work
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the Mission Cultural Center of Brazil twenty missionaries from abroad are participating in the 106th edition of the course promoted by CENFI (Center for Intercultural Formation) as an intro ...
12 October 2011
AMERICA/CUBA - 5 years of service to the communication of the Cuban Catholic communities
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Maria Celli, sent a letter to His Exc. Mgr. Wilfredo Pino, Bishop of Guantánamo and the President of the ...
11 October 2011
AMERICA/PERU - A special Mission Day, with the relics of St. Teresa at the headquarters of the PMS and the first "virtual Campaign"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru always celebrate with immense intensity the month of October and World Mission Sunday. This year in particular there is even another reason of joy: t ...
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