America

• 4 March 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops ask for peace and to avoid confrontation with neighboring countries Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Roberto Luckert of Coro and Vice-President of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, has made declarations to Union Radio saying that the Church is asking for reconciliation and peace, ...
• 4 March 2008
  AMERICA - The Great Continental Mission: “We must take advantage of this time of grace. We need a new Pentecost!”; during the CAM 3, missionary sending Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On February 28 - March 2, the Second Congress of Church Movements and New Communities took place in the city of Bogota, Colombia. The event was organized by the Department for Ecclesial Communion ...
• 3 March 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop of La Plata: new subject, “Building Citizenship,” is “a dangerous instrument of indoctrination and politicization of adolescents, with no reference to the integral concept of the human person and the ethical nature of his activity” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Hector Aguer, of Plata, recently warned faithful of the dangers of a new subject that is trying to be introduced in schools, called, “Building Citizenship,” similar to the � ...
• 3 March 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The expansion of the Missionary Childhood and Youth, and Missionary October among the themes of the Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Argentina took place on February 26-27 and was attended by the directors of each ecclesiastical district of the country, according ...
• 3 March 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Priests prepare for the Great Mission of Lima that begins April 28 and lasts until 2010. Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, February 27, there was a meeting held in the Seminary of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo with over 150 priests, among them were Vicar Generals, parish pastors, and chaplains of the Archdio ...
• 29 February 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops concerned for the political crisis: “a serious threat to the foundations of democracy and the institutional life of the country.” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - “The recent acts of extreme violence, that have already claimed human lives in Epizana, as well as the fighting that has broken out in certain areas, in protest of Parliament, are clear signs o ...
• 29 February 2008
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops make a call in facing the health emergency due to epidemics of dengue and yellow fever Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay have made a call in regards to facing the health emergency that the country is now living through, due to epidemics of dengue and yellow fever. In March of last year, th ...
• 29 February 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Emergency plan from Caritas Ecuador to provide urgent care to 5,000 families. Danger of gastrointestinal and endemic diseases Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Ecuador currently continues distributing humanitarian aid to the flood victims in the provinces of Los Rios and Manabi where, in collaboration with the Bishops’ Conference of Ecuador, th ...
• 28 February 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Archdiocese of Mexico: Sunday, March 2 is Family Day, in preparation for the World Family Encounter Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - This coming Sunday, March 2, there will be a Family Day organized, in the Archdiocese of Mexico, by the Archdiocese’s Committee for Family Pastoral Ministry, in cooperation with the John P ...
• 28 February 2008
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Archbishop of Caracas laments attack on the Archbishop’s Residence: “What is needed is a large dose of calm and serenity.” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In the early morning hours of February 27, a group of students and revolutionaries laid siege to the Archbishop’s Palace in Caracas, evacuating the personnel at work inside. Their goal was to ...
• 27 February 2008
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Caritas of Bolivia implements a two-phase emergency aid plan for flood victims La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency situation continues in various parts of Bolivia, due to the severe flooding that has afflicted the country in recent weeks. Caritas of Bolivia is currently carrying out an emergency ...
• 27 February 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops of the Peruvian rainforest are worried about the marginalizing and poverty of the indigenous people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ecclesial Jurisdictions of the Peruvian rainforest (San Ramón, Pucallpa, Puerto Maldonado, San José del Amazonas y Jaén) have issued a statement at the close of their Encount ...
• 26 February 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops’ Conference examines the situation and takes action in helping flood victims Quito (Agenzia Fides) - “All of us Ecuadorians realize the support of the Catholic Church, not only in the national level, but on a universal level, just as His Holiness Benedict XVI has shown, with his appeal for inte ...
• 26 February 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops ask the new National Assembly of the Popular Power to safeguard the common good of the country and the peace Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In their Ordinary Assembly, “at the close of which we received Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone SDB, Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, sent to our country by the Holy Father to pre ...
• 26 February 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Second Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities to reflect on the Continental Mission, in the spirit of Aparecida Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On February 28 - March 2, in Bogota (Colombia), the Second Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities will be held. The event will be organized by the Department of Ecclesial Communion a ...