America

• 27 April 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops of southern Chile and Argentina meet to intensify mutual knowledge, consolidate brotherhood and discuss the migratory problem in the region San Carlos de Bariloche (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of southern Chile and Argentina met 18 and 19 April at San Carlos di Bariloche (Argentina) to intensify mutual knowledge and consolidate brotherhood among bi ...
• 27 April 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The importance of awareness of being and knowing for evangelisation : focus of 2nd national congress of Catholic Educators Bogota (Fides Service) - The 2nd national congress of Catholic Educators will take place at San Buenaventura University 9 to 11 May 2006 organised by the Colombian Bishops respective Commissions for Pastoral of Evangel ...
• 27 April 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The Eucharist: life of the community and source of mission”: slogan 1st Diocesan Eucharistic Congress in archdiocese of Mariana organised to mark the diocese’s 100th anniversary and in preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress Mariana (Fides Service) - As part of celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the archdiocese of Mariana in Brazil the 1st Diocesan Eucharistic Congress is being held 26 - 29 April in the town of Conselheiro Lafaiet ...
• 26 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Celebrations in Lima and Rome for Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo "who distinguished himself for the spirit of selfless dedication to building and consolidating the ecclesial communities of his time with a great spirit of communion and collaboration” a Papal Message recalls Lima (Fides Service) - To mark the 4th centenary of the death of Saint Toribio di Mogrovejo, 2nd archbishop of Lima and patron saint of Latin American Bishops, an International Academic Congress is taking place in Lima ( ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children: 50% undernourished, 20% underweight and smaller than average, 70% lives below poverty line Quito (Fides Service) - In the world 150 million children suffer from under-nourishment, 6000 contract HIV/AIDS, more than 120 million cannot go to school and thousands are subject to abuse and violence. In Ecuador, sin ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Statement from Bishops’ Conference on the death of Conferenc under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela issued a statement with regard to the death of the Conference under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, last seen on Friday 21 April and foun ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Building a frontier of communion and peace as a place of encounter rather than division: Bishops of Colombia and Ecuador Villagarzón (Fides Service) - “We confirm our commitment to finding solutions to complex situations in border areas between Colombia and Ecuador” say the Bishops of frontier zone dioceses of Colombia and Ecuador in ...
• 24 April 2006
  AMERICA - Pope Benedict XVI convokes 5th CELAM Conference in Brazil 13 - 31 May 2007 Vatican City (Fides Service) -"The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, taking into consideration the wish expressed by CELAM and for the good of the Church in the countries of Latin America has formally convoked for 13 to 31 ...
• 20 April 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Catechesis, as a privileged means of handing on the faith, concerns everyone”: Bishop of Merlo-Moreno issues pastoral letter in preparation for 1st Diocesan Meeting on Catechesis Merlo-Moreno (Fides Service) - Bishop Fernando María Bargalló of Merlo Moreno diocese in Argentina issued a pastoral letter in view of the 1st Diocesan Meeting on Catechesis for which the diocese has prepared over the ...
• 6 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Prayer Campaign for Mexico and Latin America confident that “prayer is the best way to find solutions to serious threats facing society Mexico City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 2 April with a Mass in Mexico City cathedral Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carreras, archbishop primate of Mexico, launched a prayer campaign for Mexico and all Latin America organised ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Assessing preparations for CAM 3, COMLA 5 and study of new PMS statutes focus of Meeting for PMS National Directors of America Mexico City (Fides Service) - From 21 to 24 March the 2nd meeting for National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in America was held in Mexico City. The participants were 31 delegates from the PMS national ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Pontifical Mission Societies organise “Easter with Young People”: an alternative way of living Holy Week and growing in personal mission responsibility awareness Lima (Fides) - As part of on-going efforts to spread a spirit of mission among young people the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru through its missionary youth movement ‘Jóvenes sin Fronteras’, has organised the 2 ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Religious life was born in the Church as a prophetic reminder that our home is not the earth, we are on a pilgrimage towards a new earth and new heavens": Final message of national meeting of conference of major superiors Santiago (Fides Service) - A final message issued at the end of the 37th National Meeting of the Conference of Major Superiors of Chile CONFERRE said the present situation represents a challenge for the religious life. A ...
• 4 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Ayacucho archdiocese launches “Great Mission” in view of Jubilee year 2009 to mark 400 years of foundation Ayacucho (Fides Service) - To prepare to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Ayacucho ecclesastical circumscription (20 July 1609) with a Jubilee year in 2009 the archdiocese of Ayacucho has called a “ ...
• 4 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In Holy Week two thousand young people will take part in missions of evangelisation and human promotion Yucatan (Fides Service) - About 2,000 young people members of 130 groups of apostolate are preparing for a mission of evangelisation and human promotion in villages in the Mexican state of Yucatan, known as “Diocesan H ...