America

• 12 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Missiology Today: a series of meetings to reflect on various aspects of missionary activity today and identify adequate responses to most urgent challenges Santiago (Fides Service) - Missiology Today is the title of a series of meetings starting on Saturday 13 May organised by the national office for the Pontifical Missionary Union in Chile and the Society of the Missionari ...
• 12 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “This sentence will have grave consequences which attack the fundamental cultural, moral e religious values of our nation” say Catholic Bishops after ruling to legalise abortion. A dossier reveals plan to introduce abortion throughout Latin America Bogota (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Colombia have expressed deep concern with regard to a decision taken by the Constitutional Court Wednesday 10 May to partially legalise abortion. “The Bishops’ Confere ...
• 11 May 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Nuevo Trigo singers compose songs to stir and strengthen mission spirit among children Quito (Fides Service) - For ten years the Nuevo Trigo musical group (New Seed), has composed and distributed religious music for the missionary animation and formation of boys and girls and adolescents all over Latin Ame ...
• 10 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - 1st National Meeting of RIIAL-Peru: ‘The Pope urges us to be messengers of God’s Love and the new means of communication Information Technology is a most appropriate means to achieve this goal, message from President of Pontifical Council for Social Communications Lima (Fides Service) - The 1st National Meeting of RIIAL-Peru opened yesterday 9 May in Lima, with the title “For a Human Network of Answers and Aid” and will close on 13 May. About 90 participants from all over the ...
• 9 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "Family pastoral, hope for the family of the third millennium ": diocese of Huacho strives to intensify family pastoral and restore awareness of the family’s important role and value Huacho (Fides Service) - For three days 19 - 21 May the diocese of Huacho in Peru will host the 1st Meeting for Family Pastoral organised by the diocesan Commission for Family Pastoral. Participants will include parish ...
• 9 May 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - At the start of their general assembly on the theme of evangelisation of youth Brazilian Bishops ask “will we succeed in handing on the deposit of faith to the new generations?” Itaici (Fides Service) - Evangelisation of youth is the theme of the 44th general assembly of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference 9 - 17 May. The Bishops consider the theme of utmost importance because the handing on of ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - "To be witnesses of the sacred and inalienable value of each human life means to contribute to humanising the Canadian society”: National March for Life on May 11th Ottawa (Fides Agency) - “The greatest treasure of Canada: its people” was the title of the message published by the Catholic Organisation for Life and Family for the National March for Life, to be held in Canada for ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The diocesan delegates of the Missionary Groups in search of common criteria to evangelise the most distant and disadvantaged areas of the country and form lay ad gentes missionaries Buenos Aires (Fides Agency) - Summoned by the National Council of Missions, the Delegates of 21 Argentinean dioceses gathered recently in the national headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies to take part in the ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "For a human network of responses and help”: first meeting of RIIAL-Peru, to help the members of the Church use the computer in their pastoral activity Lima (Fides Agency) - From May 9 to 13, the Computer Network of the Church in Latin-America in Peru (RIIAL-Peru), will hold its first seminar with the slogan “For a human network of responses and help”. The main obje ...
• 4 May 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The fifth CELAM General Conference “will show new routes for the evangelising mission of the Church”: Message of the Bolivian Bishops at the end of their Plenary Assembly Cochabamba (Fides Agency) - At the end of their 82nd Plenary Assembly, the Bishops of Bolivia published a Message addressed to the People of God on the topics they consider of greatest concern in the crucial era their Co ...
• 3 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - We need young men and women willing to dedicate their life to following the Lord and we need courageous married couples deeply committed to their calling to love and holiness: initiatives for Vocation Week promoted by the Bishops’ Conference of Chile Santiago (Fides Service) - “We need young men and women willing to dedicate their life to following the Lord putting themselves at the service of brothers in the priesthood and the consecrated life. But we also need an ...
• 2 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops of Chile reaffirm three basic principles for human progress: protect life, recognise family founded on marriage, rights of parents to educate children Santiago (Fides Service) - At the end of its 91st plenary assembly the Chilean Bishops Conference issued a message with the title “New Life in Christ” in which they dwell on four priorities to take into consideration ...
• 2 May 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Revision of Bishops’ Conference structures, national general elections and situation of miners and migrants: issues treated at Mexican Bishops plenary assembly Lake Guadalupe (Fides Service) - In a statement issued at the end of a recent plenary assembly the Bishops of Mexico shared their concerns and explained the questions discussed during the meeting. The Message was signed ...
• 28 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - First Regional Meeting to intensify evangelisation among communities in the interior called by the Bishops’ Commission for Catechesis, Biblical and Indigenous Pastoral San Ramon (Fides Service) - To intensify evangelisation and spread of the Word of God among communities in the interior of Peru, the Peruvian Bishops’ Commission for Catechesis, Biblical and Indigenous Pastoral organis ...
• 28 April 2006
  AMERICA - Form authentic missionary disciples to announce the faith with courage and conviction: aims of 3rd Latin American Catechesis Week Bogota (Fides Service) - As part of preparations for the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM next year 2007, 13 to 31 May in Aparecida, Brazil, with the theme ““Discip ...