America

• 1 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Disciples of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church, missionaries of hope for new evangelisation of Latin America and the Caribbean at the dawn of the Third Millennium”: Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences will hold 5th General Assembly in Rome in 2007 Bogota (Fides Service) - La Presidency of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM announced that Pope John Paul II has granted its request to convoke the 5th General Assembly of the Council of Latin Am ...
• 1 July 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Carmelite missionaries mark 50 years of presence in Tumaco Tumaco (Fides Service) - The first group of discalsed Carmelite missionaries from Navarra in Spain made its official entry in Tumaco on June 28 1954. The then Apostolic Prefecture covered a vast area of 18,000 sq. km in ...
• 1 July 2004
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Sexual exploitation main form of slavery in the 21st century”: subject of a videoconference at American Embassy to the Holy See Rome (Fides Service)- Sexual exploitation is the main form of slavery in the 21st century and the United States is determined with the help of other countries to fight this turbid trade. This emerged from a video confere ...
• 30 June 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez of Cuzco, in Rome to receive the Pallium: “Our peoples hunger for God! Our priests are scarce we cannot reach all our people. Religious sects take the opportunity to make new members ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Receiving the Pallium from the hands of Pope John Paul II is doubly significant, firstly because the Pallium is a sign of the mission with which we are entrusted , that is to be Shepherd ...
• 26 June 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 500 years of evangelisation or 500 years of slavery? Colombian Bishops concern for project which threatens to undermine the evangelisation of indigenous peoples Rome (Fides Service - “We face the concerning phenomenon of the penetration of certain ideologies which claim to defend the indigenous peoples, but in fact manipulate them" Archbishop Iván Antonio Marín López, Arch ...
• 25 June 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Espíritu y Carisma’", 25 years of evangelisation through the press to bring people closer to the Word of God Parana (Fides Service) - The aim of ‘Espíritu y Carisma’, magazine which marked its 25th anniversary on June 23, is to “help the world know, accept and love Jesus as the only Lord and Master and to be 'the sword o ...
• 24 June 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “In Peru, today… Mission is alive!”: slogan chosen for National Mission Exhibition in Lima next October to promote awareness of missionary work in all its variety Lima (Fides Service) - Peru’s National Mission Centre, under the Commission for Mission of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference, informed Fides that enrolment has started for missionary Congregations and Institutes who w ...
• 24 June 2004
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - First Bishop of Trujillo dies in tragic car accident, funeral tomorrow June 25 Trujillo (Fides Service) - Bishop Virgilio López Irías, O.F.M., appointed first Bishop of Trujillo Honduras in 1987, was killed in a car accident on June 22. Virgilio López Irías was born in La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula ...
• 23 June 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We do not want Colombia to be known only for terrorism and drug trafficking, we want people to talk about a young Colombia with people who want peace and are working for peace ”: Colombian Bishops in Rome for ad limina visit launch an appeal. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are aware of the pain and fear caused by terrorism, the plague of drug trafficking, the horror of arms trade and so we call on the world for global solidarity: we ask for help to buil ...
• 22 June 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “May our Eucharistic Congress be an authentic source of renewal for Church and society": Argentinean Bishops convoke 10th National Eucharistic Congress in September Corrientes (Fides Service) - "It is our deep desire that the National Eucharistic Congress to which we invite all the Catholics in the Republic of Argentina, may be a spiritually transcendent event leading to a future of ...
• 22 June 2004
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Papal Envoy Archbishop Cordes, concludes his visit to Hispaniola: “I bring you the Pope’s blessing and the assurance that you are in his prayers". Jimaní (Fides Service) - “Archbishop Cordes came on behalf of the Pope to see the situation after the floods, to see if the aid had arrived and how it was distributed" Father Luis Rosario Peña, head of youth pastoral ...
• 18 June 2004
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES World Refugee Day: number of refugees falling by 18% commitment on the part of the international community rising New York (Fides Service) - “A Place to call home: Rebuilding lives in safety and dignity” is the theme of World Refugee Day 2004 June 20. For the occasion the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR issued ...
• 17 June 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - CAM 2 bears more fruits: seven new vocations for mission sent by the Church in Argentina to Kazakhstan and Guatemala. Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “God continues to call missionaries, also through American Mission Congresses CAM. He continues to knock on the hearts of Argentinean Catholics giving rise to new missionary vocations. A ...
• 15 June 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 3rd National Youth Mission Congress now imminent: about 700 participants will “celebrate, study and proclaim the gift of faith and the challenge of Mission Ad Gentes starting from the situation of youth in the Third Millennium” Caracas (Fides Service) - Last minute preparations for Venezuela’s 3rd National Youth Mission Congress to be held 24 to 27 giugno, at the parish of “Our Lady of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá del Santo Cristo della Vega ...
• 14 June 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church in Mexico lives ‘national year of the Eucharist’ as it prepares to host 48th International Eucharistic Congress in October preceded by Theological Pastoral Symposium on “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” Encyclical Guadalajara (Fides Service) - The Church in Mexico is living with intensity and devotion its ‘national year of the Eucharist’ as it prepares to host the 48th International Eucharistic Congress 10 to 17 October 2004 i ...