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• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD CHILDREN AND YOUTH: “YOU ARE THE YOUNG MISSIONARIES OF THE YOUNG CHURCH, YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN THIS LAND OF AMERICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD” Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On Saturday 29 November Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Pope John Paul II’s Special Envoy to CAM2, met children of the Missionary Childhood Society. He went to the town of Santa Caterina d ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - OCEANIA DAY: CAM 2 LOOKS AT CHALLENGES TO MISSION AND REFLECTS ON THE MEANING OF BEING A MISSIONARY TODAY: CARDINAL SEPE MEETS THE SICK AND THE ELDERLY: “IN YOUR WEAKNESS YOU ARE A SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND LIFE FOR THE CHURCH AND FOR HUMANITY ”. Guatemala City (Fides) – During the Day dedicated to Oceania, Friday 28 November , CAM2 recalled also the 160th anniversary of Missionary Childhood , we were told by Fides correspondent Rev. Victor Livori. At morning p ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - DOWNLOAD FREE OF CHARGE FROM FIDES 70 PHOTOS OF CAM2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS Vatican City (Fides Service) – For CAM2 the 2nd American Mission Congress Fides has a special photo section (www.fides.org.) in two parts: Fides Archives and New Photos both may be downloaded free of charge, but plea ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - BISHOPS CONFERENCE AND UNICEF SIGN AGREEMENT OF COLLABORATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS Lima (Fides Service) – On 27 November 2003, at the head offices of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference in Lima, a pact for collaboration was signed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the United Nations Children� ...
• 29 November 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 6.000 ATTEND NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERS' MEETING WHICH CLOSES WITH SENDING OF MISSIONARIES Gualeguaychú (Fides Service) – “Respond to the challenges posed to youth pastoral by the new times, renewing with youth leaders the commitment to build a civilisation of love”: this was one of the main objectives ...
• 28 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2 DAY TWO: THE HEART OF THE CHURCH MUST BEAT TO THE RHYTHM OF THE WORDS OF ST PAUL: “WOE TO ME IF I DID NOT PREACH THE GOSPEL”. Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On Thursday 27 November DAY TWO of CAM2 was ‘Asia Day’. The opening prayer focussed on mission as an urgent necessity for Asia. During the prayer, Fides correspondent in Guatemala ...
• 28 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “THE CHURCH IN CENTRAL AMERICA WITH COURAGEOUS COMMITMENT TO DEFEND LIFE TO MARTYRDOM HAS PROFESSED HER PROFOUND FAITH IN THE GOD OF LIFE ” – INTERVIEW WITH MRS. ADELAIDA SUEIRO CABREDO, SPEAKER AT CAM2 Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On 27 November Peruvian born Mrs Adelaida Sueiro Cabredo, married with three children, addressed the CAM2 assembly in Guatemala City on the subject of ‘Mission, Proclaiming the Gospe ...
• 27 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2 DAY ONE: “AMERICA’S HOUR FOR MISSION AD GENTES HAS COME! THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH IN AMERICA TODAY IS MISSION AD GENTES!” Guatemala City (Fides Service) – DAY ONE, Wednesday 26 November of the Second American Mission Congress opened with a prayer to Our Lady in the language of Maya people, accompanied by missionary hymns, Father Victor Li ...
• 27 November 2003
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 IS A CALL TO OUR DIOCESAN CHURCHES, TO OUR YOUNG CLERGY IN PARTICULAR, TO REALISE THAT MISSIONARY WORK IS A TASK FOR ALL NOT ONLY FOR RELIGIOUS” SAYS BISHOP OF BARAHORA Santo Domingo (Fides Service) – “The importance of CAM 2 lies mainly in the fact that for our diocesan churches and for the young priests in particular it is a call to realise that mission is a task for all and not o ...
• 26 November 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED NATIONS - FAO WARNS: 842 MILLIONS SUFFER FROM HUNGER. 27 MILLION MORE THAN LAST YEAR. 2003 “THE STATE OF FOOD INSECURITY IN THE WORLD” Rome (Fides Service) – Hunger affects more and more people in the world and it is increasingly difficult to eliminate: almost 850 million people, 27 million more than last year, eat too little and this number, reduced ...
• 26 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS WITH JOY AND PRAYER: “IT IS A GIFT FROM GOD THAT GUATEMALA CITY HAS BECOME THE CAPITAL OF THE CATHOLIC WORLDS, AND A CHALLENGE TO ALL” SAYS CARDINAL TORUNO WHILE AFRICA AND ASIA DREAM OF THEIR OWN MISSION CONGRESSES. Guatemala City (Fides Service) – With joy and prayers the 2nd American Mission Congress was solemnly inaugurated in the afternoon of November 25 at the Paul II Auditorium in Guatemala City. Some 3.000 delegates inclu ...
• 25 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2:AN AIR OF FESTIVITY IN GUATEMALA CITY WITH ONLY HOURS TO GO BEFORE OPENING OF CAM2: “THE WARMTH AND DEDICATION OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE IS THE MOST WELCOME IMPRESSION ” Guatemala (Fides Service) – “As soon as we arrived we felt the atmosphere of festivity. Along with delegations from all over the world, especially from all over America, we were welcomed by enthusiastic young mission ...
• 24 November 2003
  AMERICA/CANADA - BISHOP FRANÇOIS LAPIERRE OF SAINT-HYACINTHE: “MISSION HELPS US TO LOOK FURTHER TO SEE IN DAILY LIFE THE TRAGEDIES AND HOPES OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. MISSION IS A CALL NOT ONLY TO GO OUT OF OUR COUNTRY BUT TO GO OUT OF OURSELVES” Saint-Hyacinthe (Fides Service) – At the Second American Mission Congress in Guatemala City (25-30 November), the Church in Canada is represented by 150 delegates, many of them young people. “There is amazing interes ...
• 24 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TWO MILLION CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED, 1 MILLION ORPHANS, 12 MILLION MINORS HOMELESS, 200 ADULTS ASSASSINATED, 1 MILLION REFUGEES, 100,000 WIDOWS, 400 VILLAGES DISAPPEARED: SCHOOL FOR PEACE FOR 3,000 WAR CHILDREN Rome (Fides Service) – This is the balance in the past decade after 36 years of civil war. Children see their parents murdered, children subject to torture and sexual abuse. Children who still today have serious psych ...
• 24 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS TOMORROW: FIRST MAJOR MISSIONARY EVENT OF THIRD MILLENNIUM Guatemala City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow 25 November, the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM 2, will be officially inaugurated in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Pope John Paul II has sent as his Special Envoy, Cardinal Cre ...