America

• 22 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We are disciples and missionaries of Jesus”: slogan of Holy Childhood day organised by PMS for month of May Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Pontifical Mission Societies in Colombia promote a Holy Childhood Day to foster greater missionary awareness among children and efforts to help less fortunate children by means o ...
• 22 May 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Making Sunday Holy, set a day aside for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, make communities more Eucharistic, act in all areas with the power of the Eucharist: of 15 National Eucharistic Congress resolutions Florianopolis (Agenzia Fides) - “We come from of the Congress filled with missionary spirit to say to everyone Come and See!” we read in a final Letter addressed to Catholics in Brazil to confirm faith in the Euchari ...
• 22 May 2006
  AMERICA - Discuss and Study Catholic identity and mission in the world of Television: Latin American Conference on Catholic Television opens today Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Directors and producers of Catholic television programmes from more than 20 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting in Medellin, Colombia, for the Latin American Confer ...
• 20 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Catechists: we announce the Living Christ”: Catechists Day because only the announcement of the Living Christ can meet the deepest longings of the human heart and mind Santiago (Fides Service) - On Saturday 27 May Catholics in Chile will celebrate annual Catechists Day organised by the Chilean Bishops’ Commission for Catechesis. The Day is an opportunity to thank the Lord for callin ...
• 19 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 200th anniversary of the Church in Salta: “celebrating the faithfulness of God in the 200 years of our existence as a diocesan Church” Salta (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Salta is celebrating 200 years since its founding on 28 March 1806 by Pope Pius VII with the Bull Regalium Principum. To mark the event Bishop Mario Antonio Cargnello, declared ...
• 19 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Course for missionaries ad gentes organised by National Mission Centre Bogota (Fides Service) - The National Mission Centre in Bogota has organised a four week Course for Missionaries ad gentes from 30 May to 23 June for priests, religious and lay people who wish to start working in the fie ...
• 18 May 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 15th National Eucharistic Congress "an opportunity to render visible our faith and missionary spirit " Florianopolis (Fides Service) - The Church in Brazil opens today 18 May in Florianopolis its 15th National Eucharistic Congress which will last until Sunday on the theme “He is with us” and the slogan “Come and See ...
• 17 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Compartir 2006: Peruvian Bishops launch campaign to alleviate suffering of children with genetic or acquired facial malformation Lima (Fides Service) - Today 17 May the Catholic Bishops of Peru are launching their Compartir Campaign 2006 dedicated to the tragic situation of children and adolescents with facial deformation. The campaign aims to pu ...
• 17 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Believe in the miracle of life, you can have your child adopted”: Christian Family Movement launches campaign in view of movement to legalise abortion Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “If you are thinking of aborting, don’t do it. Believe in the miracle of life and give your child for adoption” is the idea behind a Campaign launched 15 May by the Christian Family M ...
• 17 May 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - With a meeting on the theme “Here I am Lord!” Canadian Catholic Youth start preparation for International Eucharistic Congress 2008 Quebec (Fides Service) - With a meeting in Quebec from 19 to 22 May Canada’s Catholic youth will start spiritual preparation for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress to be hosted by Quebec, in 2008 from 15 to 22 ...
• 16 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Cold proposals of euthanasia cannot alleviate the suffering of the sick and their families, they merely indicate of a total lack of understanding and knowledge of the human person” says secretary of the Bishops’ Conference Santiago (Fides Service) - “Can death wilfully caused for example by a lethal injection be a 'happy death'? Is not natural death, with the use of scientific means to alleviate bodily pain and at the same time all the ...
• 16 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Evangelising university culture, young people points of reference and witnesses to the faith for fellow students: Mar de Plata launches 1st University Mission Mar de Plata (Fides Service) - University pastoral in Mar de Plata has organised its 1st University Mission, we are told by D. Ezequiel E. Kseim, university pastoral advisor and Analía E. Benítez, head of University Pa ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The law is not always moral and believers must realise in conscience that abortion is still a crime also in the civil field. The Church punishes it with excommunication" says Cardinal Rubiano Sáenz Bogota (Fides Service) - After Colombia’s Constitutional Court legalised abortion in that country Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz Archbishop of Bogota issued a statement recalling that the Church punishes abortion with � ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops at communication school: formation seminar in the field of communications to foster diffusion of the Gospel message in the present-day context Asuncion (Fides Service) - The Church is not foreign to the world of communications, she is aware of the importance of the media and influence they have on the way individuals and communities think and behave transmittin ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA - 5th General CELAM Conference count down: "this event will give new impulse to the faith on our Continent" Bogota (Fides Service) - “To take up the challenges of the third millennium in personal, family, pastoral and social life in our Latin American countries and take a step towards the encounter with the Living Jesus, we ...