America

• 12 October 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “March for Mission” 16 October in Caracas one of many PMS initiatives for the missionary month of October and World Mission Sunday 2005 on the theme “The Missionary, bread for the life of the world” Caracas (Fides Service) - A “March for Mission” will take place on 16 October in Caracas organised by the diocese to recall the long distances travelled by missionaries who brought the Gospel to Venezuela. The march ...
• 12 October 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops of Brazil appeal for solidarity in aid of victims of natural disasters in Guatemala, El Salvador, Pakistan and India. Brasilia (Fides Service) - “We are faced with a series of major catastrophes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Pakistan and India, with thousands of dead, over four million injured or displaced, and widespread devastation and ...
• 12 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Natural disasters are a time to live faith, hope and charity: “This is the time when the light of our faith should illuminate the darkness of calamity” says Bishop of Escuintla Escuintla (Fides Service) - In the tragic situation following hurricane Stan and the distress of people, especially poor rural communities, Bishop Victor Hugo Palma Paul of Escuintla diocese in Guatemala issued a pastora ...
• 11 October 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Missionaries, Bread broken for the life of the world” is the slogan chosen by the Church in Colombia for the missionary month of October in this Year of the Eucharist Bogota (Fides Service) - The Missionary Month of October which culminates with World Mission Sunday 23 October is being celebrated in Colombia with the slogan “Missionaries, Bread broken for the life of the world” . ...
• 11 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “We rely on solidarity and prayers that the God of Life may give strength and hope to families who have lost loved ones, homes and harvests”: Catholic Bishops of Guatemala call for help for flood victims Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “With our hearts filled with grief we communicate the anguish, sadness, sufferings of this country for many years: civil war, inhuman violence, chronic poverty, hunger, unemployment, la ...
• 11 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Promoting peace, the community of peoples and the common good”: a theme of the 8th Social Week focused on social principles of “Gaudium et spes” Lima (Fides Service) - In the framework of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of “Gaudium et spes” by Vatican II, the Catholic Bishops of Peru (CEP) will focus the 8th national Social Week 18 ...
• 10 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Towards Arequipa Diocesan Eucharistic Congress: 150 Eucharist Week Animators prepare with reflection on apostolic Letter “Dies Domini” Arequipa (Fides Service) - Preparations continue with enthusiasm for a Diocesan Eucharistic Congress organised by the archdiocese of Arequipa on the theme “Eucharist, food for new life”, 13 - 20 November. The organis ...
• 10 October 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The size of tragedy cannot be calculated: thousands are homeless after hurricane Stan swept the country. 1.400 inhabitants of Panabaj village buried alive. Cardinal Quezada Toruño appeals for “Solidarity without frontiers” Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Guatemala, the central American country which hosted CAM 2, the second American Mission Congress in 2003 and which for years has struggled to eliminate violence, now faces the consequence ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 6,000 lay people involved in Great Mission 2005 in diocese of Chiclayo carry the Good News to families door to door Chiclayo (Fides Service) - Over 6,000 lay Catholics are carrying the Good News of Salvation to families door to door in the first stage of a Great Mission in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo which comprises 4 provinces L ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The role of the laity in the Church, society and politics: 3,000 people from all over the country gather in the capital for Laity Congress 2005 Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “Towards Argentina of the Bi-Centenary” is the title of a Laity Congress organised by the Lay Department and the Commission for the Laity and Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ C ...
• 7 October 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “The Church in Mexico is encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI not only to work to alleviate suffering but also to eliminate the causes”: Bishops tell people on return from ad limina visit to Rome Mexico City (Fides Service) - On October 6 the Bishops of Mexico issued a brief statement to inform the people of their recent ad limina visit to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The Bishops of this very populous Catholic coun ...
• 6 October 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The human person is worth more than any human achievements and cannot be manipulated or replaced with any other good”: Bishops of Cordova region denounce present day mentality which fails to recognise the value of human life Cordova (Fides Service) - “Life is worth living. Human life is sacred” is the title of a Pastoral letter issued by Bishops of the Corodova region of Argentina, on 29 September 2005, addressed to all men and women wi ...
• 6 October 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Eucharistic Meeting with 2,500 children on 22 October to close national itinerary of Days of Adoration promoted by local Holy Childhood Society all over the country for the Year of the Eucharist Caracas (Fides Service) - In this Year of the Eucharist and to commemorate the day when Venezuela was solemnly consecrated to the Blessed Sacrament on 2 July 1899, in January this year the Pontifical Mission Societies in ...
• 5 October 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The elderly are “Guardians of the collective memory, conservers of inter-generational relationships and transmitters of authentic values”: Archbishop Migliore Permanent Holy See Observer addresses Second UN World meeting on Ageing New York (Fides Service) - On October 4 in New York addressing the Second UN World Assembly on Ageing Archbishop Celestino Migliore Apostolic Nuncio Permanent Observer of the Holy See reiterated the Holy See’s descrip ...
• 5 October 2005
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “One bread, one body, one family”: at the close of the Year of the Eucharist Montevideo celebrates “Family Week” Montevideo (Fides Service) - In the context of the Year of the Eucharist, the archdiocese of Montevideo has chosen for its annual Family Week in the first week of October the motto “One Bread, one Body one Family”, ...