America

• 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 ...
• 2 February 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mission in the family: the experience of the Schoensttat Movement Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) – There were 68 missionaries, for most part members of the Schoensttat Apostolic Movement, who, for the third consecutive year, gave life to the Missionary Families in the town of Cabrero, Ch ...
• 1 February 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church's expectations from the visit of President Obama: welfare and development, emigration San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador awaits the visit from the President of the United States, Barack Obama, with a positive outlook, hoping to establish the basis for a “radical reform f ...
• 31 January 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops reiterate the denunciation of the lack of respect for the Constitution of the Republic Managua (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Nicaragua have reiterated once again the need to respect the Constitution which prohibits the President from being re-elected, criticizing the judges of the Court who approved ...
• 29 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - The Archbishop of Lima officially opens RPP TV headquarters: “communication aids in the progress of the human family” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, officially opened the headquarters of the new television station RPP TV (television from the Catholic radio station “Radio Programas Peru”). T ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Climate of violence continues: another two young priests assassinated in Bogotà Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – Another two priests were killed in Bogotà on Wednesday evening, 26 January. According to the message from the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the murder of the two priests occurred in the q ...
• 28 January 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - “At the service of human dignity and common good”: Bishops in the context of the April elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of its Plenary Assembly the Peruvian Episcopal Conference issued a document that presents a reflection for the community, in the context of the election for President of the Republic w ...
• 27 January 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “The Church's missionary work demands an ongoing conversion”: Bishop Moronta at the Symposium of Missiology Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – At the International Symposium of Missiology, held in Caracas (see Fides 19/1/2011; 26/1/2011), Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez of San Cristobal (Venezuela), devoted his opening addr ...
• 27 January 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 500 years on from the creation of the first dioceses in the New World, Bishops recall that “the Catholic Church has been present throughout the country's history” Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Dominican Episcopal Conference, through a pastoral letter, presented a summary of the evangelizing work of the Church throughout the history of the Dominican people. The reason is th ...
• 25 January 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “They want to silence the Church,” denounces the Archbishop of Caracas during the celebration for Christian unity Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, denounced that in the East, Christians are persecuted by “continuing secularism, more aggressive and intolerable every day”, which means ...
• 25 January 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - The Community of Villaregia celebrates 30 years in the service of mission in the Missionary Centre under construction Arecibo (Agenzia Fides) – Father Luigi Prandin and Maria Luigia Corona, founders of the Missionary Community of Villaregia (MCV), were the main testimonies in the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Missionary Communi ...
• 24 January 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - Missionaries of Punta Arenas collaborate on Caritas project in earthquake-affected zones Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Silvia Barañados, adviser and school pastoral care minister, together with seven religious sisters and some youth from Punta Arenas, profited from the winter vacation period by ta ...
• 22 January 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Our people are hungry and thirsty, less words and more action needed: President of the Episcopal Conference on the Feast of St Sebastian Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “The Feast of St Sebastian is a very timely invitation to all of us to decisively resume the Christian commitment to bear witness of Jesus Christ in the reality in which we are immersed”. ...