America

• 29 April 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 1st Inter Institutional Mission Congress renewed awareness that every missionary institution or congregation is called to make its own specific contribution to missionary activity in Brazil and ad gentes Brasilia (Fides Service) - “Each charisma is a gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church and must flourish in a genuine manner bearing its proper fruits in evangelisation” said Fr Daniel Lagni national director of the P ...
• 29 April 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Prepare, update, present challenge of new evangelisation: 16th Course for Missionaries ad gentes Bogota (Fides Service) - Fr Antonio Villarino Director of the Colombian Bishops’ Commission for pastoral care of Ethnic groups told Fides about the annual Course for Missionaries Ad Gentes organised by the Bishops’ N ...
• 29 April 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - In Benedict XVI we recognise a Shepherd filled with the power of the Holy Spirit who will lead the Church along the challenging paths of the new millennium and encourage us to be courageous and generous missionaries Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “The teaching of Pope John Paul II, your predecessor, led us to rediscover the missionary riches and responsibility of these young Churches and to celebrate in November 2003, the Secon ...
• 28 April 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 1st Inter Institutional Mission Congress: 250 men and women from 70 different institutes reflect on missionary Ad Gentes in consecrated life and in the life of ecclesial communities São Paulo (Fides Service) - About 250 men and women Religious from 25 different countries, members of 70 different missionary institutes and working in Brazil took part in the 1st Inter Institutional Missionary Congress ...
• 28 April 2005
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “We urge the people and all social and political forces to unite efforts to promote the good of the country. Congress must correct its attitudes and actions and think only of the common good”: Bishops launch concerned appeal Quito (Fides Service) - The Church in Ecuador, attentive to the phenomena which strike the people has on various occasions called attention to growing malcontent among the people with the country in an economic, social a ...
• 28 April 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops of Chile, recall prophetic voice of Pope John Paul II, express concern for persistent poverty, social gap, while the demand for equity and globalisation of solidarity “still await responses” Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - At the end of their 89th assembly in Punta de Tralca 18 - 22 April the Catholic Bishops of Chile issued a statement “We have seen the Lord”, taking inspiration from the Gospel nar ...
• 27 April 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Pontifical Mission Societies and Bishops’ Conference department for mission and indigenous people welcome Benedict XVI “Custodian of the Faith” Caracas (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela together with the Bishops’ Conference department for Missions and Indigenous Peoples have expressed gratitude to God that today there are people o ...
• 26 April 2005
  AMERICA - “We confirm our faith in the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church and thank God for giving us a new Bishop of Rome and universal Shepherd of the Church : CELAM congratulates the Holy Father Pope Padre Benedict XVI Bogota (Fides Service) - In a letter of congratulations to Pope Benedict XVI the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM expressed joy for his election underlining that his first words demonstrated his � ...
• 26 April 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Making our parishes missionary” is the theme of the 2nd national mission congress in Guatemala in the wake of 2003 continental Congress CAM 2 Quetzaltenango (Fides Service) - In the wake of the Second American Mission Congress CAM 2 hosted by Guatemala November 2003, some 2000 delegates from dioceses all over the country will gather in Quetzaltenango May 6 - 8 ...
• 26 April 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Christ the one foundation of the Church” theme of week of prayer for Christian Unity marked in Brazil 8 to 15 May Brasilia (Fides Service) - “Christ the one foundation of the Church” is the theme of the week of prayer for Christian unity which this year will be marked all over Brazil from 8 to 15 May. The week of prayer for unit ...
• 22 April 2005
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “May the Holy Father Benedict XVI inspire and guide our people in search of its human and Christian face” says Ecuadorian Bishops’ Conference delegate for Health Pastoral Quito (Fides Service) - Camillian Fr Alberto Redaelli Ecuadorian Bishops’ Conference delegate for Health Pastoral and chairman of the Foundation for Palliative Treatment Hospital opened by the Camillian Fathers, sent t ...
• 21 April 2005
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - In Bolivia people and Bishops rejoice for election of Benedict XVI and pray the Holy Spirit will guide him in his apostolic service La Paz (Fides Service) - In a brief message signed by Bishop Jesús Juárez Párraga, Secretary general of the Bolivian Bishops Conference, the Bishops express great joy for the election of Pope Benedict XVI as Succes ...
• 21 April 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church in Venezuela thanks God for giving the Church a new universal Shepherd a sign of continuity in the faith founded on the rock which is Peter Caracas (Fides Service) - In a letter of congratulations addressed to His Holiness Benedict XVI the Church in Venezuela said “ we thank God, Three in One, for giving the Church a new universal Shepherd a sign of cont ...
• 21 April 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - Solemn Mass to thank God for the election of Benedict XVI Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - On Friday 22 April at midday at the national Shrine of Maipu, the Bishops of Chile united with the Catholics of the nation will thank God for the election of the Supreme Pontiff Benedi ...
• 20 April 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Benedict XVI will open up the Church with ecumenical dialogue” says Archbishop of Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (Fides Service) - Archbishop Dadeus Gringo of Porto Alegre (Brazil) said in a press statement to the media in Brazil, the new Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, the first German Pope since the Middle Ages, is a man ...