America

• 14 July 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexicans prepare with enthusiasm for the International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara: 400 Seminarians visit families in the archdiocese to foster and renew faith in the Eucharist; local or category Congresses draw large crowds. Guadalajara (Fides Service) - “In this month of July about 400 students from the major seminary of Guadalajara archdiocese are working with parishes to provide intense animation activities to help rediscover awareness ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - International Meeting for Missionaries opens today in Chiclayo, “to renew missionary spirit and underline the need to open Mission Centres in diocese and parishes ” Chiclayo (Fides Service) - From 13 to 16 July to mark the 10th anniversary of the Diocesan Mission Centre in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo, there will be an “International Meetings for Missionaries” with the aim o ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To heal the rift between faith and life, Catholic Bishops of Colombia decide to give new impulse to evangelisation and Christian Initiation Bogota (Fides Service) - “Many call themselves Christians but are not interested in following Jesus, the Lord!” the Bishops of Colombia say in a Message issed at the end of their 77th Plenary Assembly in Bogota 5 to ...
• 13 July 2004
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “The main challenge is to continue to help flood victims. The flow of aid must not slacken now that there are difficult months ahead" the Catholic Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros told Fides Rome (Fides Service) - The past year has been difficult for the Dominican Republic. Last September a serious earthquake caused much damage especially in two dioceses including Santiago de los Caballeros. The quake was fo ...
• 12 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” This is the slogan of the National Day for the Union of Sick Missionaries celebrated yesterday by more than 600 sick and elderly people Lima (Fides Service) - On Sunday 11 July Peru celebrated a National Day of the Union of Sick Missionaries with the slogan “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” The Day celebrated by mo ...
• 9 July 2004
  AMERICA/CHILE - Italian priest Fr Oreste Benzi in Chile to protect the rights of the Mapuche indigenous people. Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 21 August 2004 the community of Rev. Oreste Benzi (Association John XXIII) will open a camp in Chile. The main objective is to investigate the situation of the Mapuche Indios living in s ...
• 9 July 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The local Church calls for a transparent and credible referendum: “We must overcome division and polarisation which have provoked radical reciprocal mistrust” says President of Bishops’ Conference Caracas (Fides Service) - With an opening discourse by Archbishop Baltazar E. Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of Mérida, the 82nd Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference July 7-13 opened in Caracas. Reflecti ...
• 8 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The armed groups realise they can never dissuade us in our commitment to oppose violence, indeed we are even more determined and united with the people who are with us and know we are with them and for them”. Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza of Valledupar interviewed by Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - At least 35,000 dead in 40 years of fighting. Fides asked Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza C.M.F., Bishop of the diocese of Valledupar, for testimony on the situation of violence and bloodshed in Co ...
• 8 July 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found stabbed to death at his home near his parish at Ciudad Juarez Ciudad Juarez (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Father Ramon Navarrete Islas, aged 56, was found dead at his home near the parish where he worked in Ciudad Juarez a town near the Mexican border with the United States. ...
• 7 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Church deeply committed to education: instil a mentality of peace, justice and truth in the new generations. Colombia’s first virtual University has 2,000 students Rome (Fides Service) - "The Church in Colombia has always worked hard in the field of education providing a Christian education based on the values of the Gospel at all levels facilitated by the fact that Colombia has a ...
• 7 July 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Justice and charity. Facing Future Challenges: Jewish-Catholic relations in the 21st century”: International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee meeting in Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee started its 18th meeting on July 5 in Buenos Aires, on the theme “Tzedek and Tzedaká (Justice and Charity). Facing Future Challenges: ...
• 6 July 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Reawaken and strengthen faith and missionary witness of young Peruvians to help them respond with greater generosity and courage to the challenges of new evangelisation”: about 2,000 young people expected to take part in 3rd National Youth Mission Congress in Arequipa. Arequipa (Fides Service) -Arequipa, Peru’s “white city” will host from 4 - 8 August at San Jose College the 3rd National Youth Mission Congress with the slogan “Young person your life is mission!”. To reawaken ...
• 6 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops, shepherd of God’s people have “the duty to look at the signs of the times in the reality of the country and to take care to illuminate, on the basis of faith, the situations in which the people of God live”. Bishops’ Conference plenary discusses Problems and challenges of Colombian society Bogota (Fides Service) - “Evangelisation and Christian Initiation” is the theme of a plenary assembly of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference opened yesterday 5 July at the Conference’s offices in Bogota. Cardinal P ...
• 5 July 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Every day eight children become orphans because their parents (31% aged 18-24) are killed in violence Rome (Fides Service) - In 2003, at least 2,895 children in Rio de Janeiro, eight every day were orphaned becuase of violence, of these 83% were children or adolescents. This was said by the Brazilian daily “O Globo” ...
• 2 July 2004
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops’ statement with regard to economic measures decided by governments of Cuba and the United States Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides has just received a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Cuba dated 26 May 2004 (Year of the Family in Cuba). Here is our English translation of the statement: Concerned by ...