America
9 February 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - President of Colombia meets Bishops gathered for Episcopal Assembly
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, met the Country's Catholic Bishops, yesterday, 8 February, during the course of the 90th Colombian Episcopal Assembly. It was the first ...
7 February 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The mission and ecology: preparing for the missionary campaign of October 2011
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Under the coordination of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), the team responsible for preparing the material for the missionary campaign next October, met at the PMS headquarters, in Bra ...
7 February 2011
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops of the Amazon on the need for environmental impact pre-assessment
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference and the Bishops of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Amazon have demonstrated their opposition to emergency ordinances promulgated recently by the ...
5 February 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - To stabilise a frequent dialogue with the Church on fundamental values: initiative by Catholic parliamentarians
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Members of the Independent Democratic Union Party (UDI), Gonzalo Arenas and Gustavo Hasbun, have asked Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati of Santiago, for the creation of an opportunity for dialogue b ...
5 February 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Prevention of abandonment from schooloing and chronic malnutrition for the most vulnerable sectors in Puerto Piraya
Puerto Piray (Agenzia Fides) – The town of Puerto Piray, Misiones province, a region in the north-east of Argentina, is characterised by a very complex socio-economic situation. It is a region of the country with one o ...
5 February 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The “Day of red hands” to say “enough with child soldiers!”
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The recruitment of children for armed conflict has been banned since 12 February, 2002 by Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children. However, adoption of this protocol has not s ...
4 February 2011
AMERICA/HAITI - Cholera continues to take victims and pops up in the neighbouring Dominican Republic
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The number of people infected by the cholera epidemic continues to rise that has been raging on the Caribbean island since last October: 215,956 infections and a total of 4,131 deaths. ...
4 February 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The “new frontiers” for child labour at the World Social Forum in Dakar
San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) – The 11th World Social Forum (WSF) returns to Africa, in Dakar (Senegal), to be held from 6 to 11 February 2011. The presence at the WSF 2011 of associations working to combat the worst forms ...
4 February 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - A communal strategy for peace: Mexican Bishops in Colombia
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation of Mexican Bishops will travel to Colombia to learn about the activities that the Catholic Church in Colombia will hold for peace, against violence by organised crime and guer ...
3 February 2011
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - PMS launch multi-media website: “Mission Voices - Speaking of Faith”
New York (Agenzia Fides) – The National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the United States launched a new multi-media website yesterday, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, 2 February. This ...
3 February 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation of Missionary Youth also via the internet
Brasilia-Fortaleza (Agenzia Fides) – February is a summer month in Brazil, and also a month dedicated to the initiative of preparation and formation of many Catholic groups. The national headquarters of the Pontifical ...
3 February 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - Do not accept “drug-handouts” asks the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico
Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – The violations of human rights suffered by Central American migrants in Mexico on their way to the border with the United States “is outrageous,” said the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbi ...
3 February 2011
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 85 years of life, forming the priests of Tachira, Venezuela
San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) – On the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, 2 February, the church of San Cristóbal celebrated the Day of Consecrated Life and 85 years since the foundation of St Thoma ...
2 February 2011
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Pastoral ministry in this continent “has more of a future than a past”
San José (Agenzia Fides) - Work is continuing at the Second Latin American Continental Congress on Vocations, promoted by the Department for Vocations and Ministries of the Latin American Episcopal Conference, currently ...
2 February 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary work requires qualified formation: MCC course to commence
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On 27 February, at the Missionary Cultural Centre in (MCC), in Brasilia, a new course will commence for foreign missionaries, composed of Portuguese language lessons, an introduction to the p ...
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