America

• 23 September 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops’ statement against the draft bill for euthanasia: “Creating legal norms allowing for the suppression of innocent human lives is contrary to the code of ethics and is socially misleading.” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian Bishops’ Conference has issued a statement signed by the President of the Conference, Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Barranquilla, in relation to the draft bill 44 of 2008, w ...
• 23 September 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - First International Congress on Marian Theology in search of new developments and the current panorama on Marian thought Boyaca (Agenzia Fides) – September 24-27, the city of Chiquinquira (Boyaca) will host the First International Congress on Marian Theology at the National Marian Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Chiquinquira. Among ...
• 22 September 2008
  AMERICA/CANADA - Among the themes for the Canadian Bishops’ Plenary Assembly opening today: Bishops’ Synod, Year of St. Paul, and the restructuring of the CCCB Ontario (Agenzia Fides) – Today, September 22, the Bishops of Canada will gather for the annual Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) in Ontario. About 90 Bishops will be present to dis ...
• 22 September 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Council for the Laity rejects the 26 most recent laws declared by the President and asks that all citizens participate responsibly in the November 23 elections Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The National Council for the Laity (CNL) in Venezuela expressed its rejection of the 26 laws that the President has recently approved, in a public statement presenting its position in regards ...
• 22 September 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Activities and encounters in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Prelature of Ayaviri Ayaviri (Agenzia Fides) – With a large gathering of youth entitled “Riqch´Ariy Wayna,” “Youth, get up!,” the Prelature of Ayaviri held another one of its important activities during this jubilee year, on the o ...
• 19 September 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops of Durango denounce violence, insecurity, and rise in drug trafficking: “May no one give in to this evil! May we not be discouraged!” Durango (Agenzia Fides) – “We have seen how this bloodshed is tearing apart our country. We feel this pain because it has hurt our people and our families; it has been an attack on what is most sacred: life itself.� ...
• 19 September 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Archdiocese of Caracas calls for the restitution of a Catholic church being used to train 8-14 year-old child soldiers Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Caracas has sent a message to the government and the armed forces in Venezuela, asking that they restore the “Jesus of Divine Mercy” Chapel, which has been taken “for ...
• 19 September 2008
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Anthology of Documents from Bishops of the Dominican Republic issued between 1955-2006 that “places the guiding words of the Church at public disposal” Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops’ COnference of the Dominican Republic has published a 3-volume anthology of the “Documents from Bishops of the Dominican Republic” issued between 1955-2006, including p ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishop of Colon-Kuna Yala tells Agenzia Fides: “The great challenge is trying to draw the people back into the Church and getting Catholics to live their faith with fidelity, so they can be true witnesses for the community.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The great challenge is that large number of people who live in indifference,” Bishop Ausilio Aguilar of Colon-Kuna Yala (Panama) told Agenzia Fides while he was in Rome, participating in a s ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA - Caritas of Latin America and the Caribbean sends a message of support to Bolivia: “The youth of Bolivia deserve a future full of peace, where harmony and fraternity are the trademark of our cities.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We are pained by the fact that a country of our America, with its poverty and its great faith, is now facing great difficulties in maintaining national unity.” With these words begins the ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops declare September 19 “National Day of Prayer for Peace”: “We hope that sadness and pain will cease to afflict our people and our nation.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We wish to reunite all the faithful for a National Day of Prayer for Peace on Friday, September 19, in which each community is called to pray and carry out a public activity, pilgrimage, com ...
• 18 September 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Crossing the desert on foot in search of a better life Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Veronica is 30 years old. She is from Puebla, Mexico and lives in New York with her husband. All day she works for a family living in Manhattan, where she earns 600 dollars a week. She take ...
• 17 September 2008
  AMERICA/CANADA - Canadian Bishops’ Conference encourages Catholics to reflect and be informed as best they can before voting in the October 14 elections Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) – The Social Affairs Commission of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has issued a guide inviting Catholics to vote but to do so with discernment, in the upcoming October 14 elect ...
• 17 September 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference asks that Bishops and priests be respected in voicing their opinion, even if they are not shared by others Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Nicholas Dousdebes, Assistant Secretary General of the Ecuadorian Bishops’ Conference sent a letter to the President of the country, Rafael Correa, asking that Bishops and priests be respe ...
• 17 September 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops call for prudence and common sense so that this extreme temporary recourse to the “state of siege,” may not interfere with the dialoguing that has begun, as it is the only way to reaching a resolution La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – In accord with the most recent message issued by the Bishops (see Fides 12/9/2008), the Secretary General of the Bolivian Bishops’ Conference reiterates its concern during these important day ...