America

• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - For the first time S. Egidio Community’s annual International Meeting of People and Religions will be held in the United States 26 and 27 April in Washington Rome (Fides Service) - In October 1986 Pope John Paul II convoked in Assisi a World Day of Prayer for Peace, an unprecedented historic event which saw representatives of the world’s great religions gathered around the ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Prayer vigils and masses all over the country to celebrate the legacy of John Paul II ; new edition of “He stays with us” book on the Pope’s visit to Chile in 1987 Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - Catholics all over Chile will remember Pope John Paul II with prayer vigils and masses on the first anniversary of his passing to the Home of the Father. On Sunday 2 April Cardinal Fra ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexican Bishops statement a year from the death of Pope John Paul II: “His greatness was the fruit of his profound unity with Christ”: prayers and masses at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City (Fides Service) - “We are filled with the treasure of grace of John Paul II who from his very first visit to our country triggered a process of pastoral dynamism which has fortified us enormously” the Bi ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Solemn Mass in Lima and in dioceses all over Peru on 1st anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II Lima (Fides Service) - Catholics in the Peruvian capital have been invited to take part a special Mass of thanksgiving for the life of Pope John Paul II in Lima cathedral on Sunday 2 April at 11 am in memory of the ‘pi ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Profound sadness for the murder of Italian missionary Mgr. Bruno Baldacci Vitória da Conquista (Fides Service) - The lifeless body of Bruno Baldacci, an Italian priest from the diocese of Las Spezia, was found on 30 March in the priest’s room at the parish of Nossa Senhora das Candeias of w ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops’ statement on USA/Mexico Migratory Agreement: “We join the Bishops of the United States in calling for a reform which is just and reasonable, does not exclude anyone and always recognises that these are laws which strike human beings” Mexico City (Fides Service) - “We join the Bishops of the United States in calling for a reform which is just and reasonable, does not exclude anyone and always recognises that these are laws which strike human beings� ...
• 30 March 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The work and teaching of John Paul II will be the theme of conferences organised by Bogota archdiocese to commemorate the late Pope on the 1st anniversary of his death Bogota (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Bogota has planned a number of initiatives to commemorate Pope John Paul II on the first anniversary of his death including three conferences on the figure, work and teaching o ...
• 28 March 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Pro Life-Venezuela forum calls for more synergy between organisations working to protect human life at every stage Caracas (Fides Service) - As part of initiatives for the Pro-Life Week in Venezuela (see Fides 18/3/2006), organised by the Venezuelan Bishops’ Family and Childhood Commission numerous pro-life organisations and groups ...
• 28 March 2006
  AMERICA - Minutes of 1st Conference of Church Movements and New Communities held in Bogota 9-12 March available on the Internet Bogota ( Fides Service) - The general secretariat of CELAM and the department for ecclesial communion and dialogue have made available on the Internet the minutes of the 1st Conference of Church Movements and New Commun ...
• 27 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Meeting for diocesan PMS Directors: “the Church entrusts you with a special mandate which comes from Christ and sets you at the heart of ecclesial life ” Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - Diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies are “called to be the chief agents of missionary animation and cooperation”, a task which “the Church entrusts to you as a spe ...
• 25 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Day for the Unborn Child: “may Argentineans have the courage to defend the life of the unborn child from all the different trends so as not to feel remorse for innocent bloodshed”” Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - At a time when “the most fundamental right, the right to exist, is violated with impunity, we pray Argentineans may have the courage to defend the life of the unborn child from all the di ...
• 25 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Number of TB sufferers drops 40% in decade Lima (Fides Service) - Annual World TB Day was held recently. In the last decade the number of TB cases registered in Peru dropped 40% from 50,000 in 1995 to 30,000 in 2005. The number of mortal cases has also decreased ...
• 25 March 2006
  AMERICA - Day for the Unborn Child spreads in Latin American countries and beyond Rome (Fides Service) - The annual Day for the Unborn Child, first launched in 1993 in El Salvador as Day for the Right to be Born, is spreading to other countries, particularly in Latin America. In Argentina it was adop ...
• 24 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Present day society: the battle between culture of life and culture of death Sante Fe della Vera Cruz (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the Day of the Unborn Child in Latin America celebrated on March 25 the feast of the Annunciation, the Cursillos de Cristiandad movement in Argentina issued a ...
• 23 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “A society which does not respect the value of life, loses its principal and basic value, humanity”, says Bishop president of Family Pastoral Commission on “Pro Life Day” Mexico City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the national Pro-Life Day 25 March the Mexican Bishops’ Conference through its Commission for Family Pastoral issued a message signed by Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martíne ...