America

• 8 June 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA - 40th anniversary of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace: “an effective means for the Catholic Church in Canada to express its preferential love for the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed" Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop André Gaumond of Sherbrooke who is also president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops', issued a Pastoral message to mark the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Catholic Org ...
• 6 June 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA - “Media ad religion: risk or opportunity?” UCIP International Catholic Union of the Press World Congress Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - The International Catholic Union of the Press is holding a World Congress 2007 from 3 to 10 June in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada on the theme "Media ad religion: risk or opportunity?". The UCIP Con ...
• 6 June 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Abortion is never the answer. The choice must always be for life”: Bishops' statement with regard to proposed de-penalisation of the crime of abortion Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Argentina in a statement regarding various proposals to de-penalise the crime of abortion by introducing regulations regarding so-called "non punishable ...
• 5 June 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Week of Religious Instruction in Schools discusses proposed Bill to exclude religion as a subject in Venezuelan schools Caracas (Fides Service) - The National Office for Religious Instruction in Schools ERE belonging to the Catholic Bishops' commission for education has promoted a National Week of Religious Instruction in Schools 4 - 8 Ju ...
• 5 June 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Transcendent dimension, principal of freedom to teach, guarantee state and private education with equal funding: points in a new provincial Education Law Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires has issued a statement listing certain fundamental points to be considered when drafting a new Provincial Education Law. Amo ...
• 4 June 2007
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “We urge you all to prepare to undertake the Great Continental Mission, to go out to those most distant from the Church and to take up the challenge to re-evangelise the baptised more deeply ”: Message from Mexican delegation at Aparecida Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A call to "renew the fire of the Holy Spirit to experience a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ and, as disciples follow Him with constancy and dynamism" was launched by the Mex ...
• 1 June 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We convoke our brothers and sisters to unite with enthusiasm to take part in the Great Continental Mission which must reach everyone and be permanent and profound ”: Final Message to the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of the Conference in Aparecida, with the power of the Holy Spirit we convoke all our brothers and sisters to unite with enthusiasm to take part in the Great Continental Mission. It ...
• 1 June 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We leave this holy place charged with a great missionary task: Go and announce the Gospel to all peoples, every ambit of society and all cultures " Aparecida (Fides Service) - 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida closed on 31 May with the approval of the Final Document with 127 votes in favour, ...
• 31 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL -5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “This Conference must give powerful impulse for renewal in Church all over Latin America, centred on Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life ": conversation with Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela Aparecida (Fides Service) - After twenty intense days work at the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Archbi ...
• 31 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida: The principal purpose of the Conference is to make the Church community more missionary, with a renewal of pastoral and missionary impulse in the particular Churches: summary of Final Document Aparecida (Fides Service) - "The Bishops gathered for the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean here at the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in the spirit of a ' ...
• 31 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - Message to the Peoples of Latin America and Mass of thanksgiving bring to conclusion 20 intense days of reflection Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - On May 31st the reading of a Message to the Peoples of Latin America and a solemn Mass of thanksgiving marked the conclusion of the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conference ...
• 29 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - Final week, 31 May official Message. International Eucharistic Congress next year wonderful impulse for Great Continental Mission Aparecida (Fides Service) - The 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI in Aparecida, Brazil on 13 May is in its last stages this week: the f ...
• 29 May 2007
  AMERICA - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - The most important thing is for Aparecida to be an evangelising event to give new impulse to evangelisation…to make the light of the Gospel penetrate the hearts, structures and lives of Latin Americans”: interview with Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo, emeritus vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since he was young priest Bishop Cipriano Calderón Polo has always been fascinated by the Catholic vitality and pastoral potential of the Churches in Latin America. Through the years he ha ...
• 28 May 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida - “We face the great challenge to rediscover marriage as a vocation of love and the sacrament of matrimony as the summit which elevates this calling of a man and a women ”: interview with the only married couple at the Conference Aparecida (Fides Service) - Dr Luis Jensen and his wife Pilar Escudero de Jensen, are representing married couples at 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida. Th ...
• 26 May 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - 27 May: Holy Childhood Day in Peru on the theme “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!” Lima (Fides Service) - For the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru Sunday 27 May is the annual nation Holy Childhood Day. This year the slogan is “Lord, we are your little disciples, make us your little missionaries!� ...