America

• 2 December 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “HUMAN DIGNITY THE MOST DESIRED AND VALUABLE GOOD OF OUR SOCIETY”: CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CHILE CALL FOR WATCHFULNESS AND SOLIDARITY Santiago (Fides Service ) – In a final statement entitled “Let us treat others as we would have them treat us” issued at the end of their 86th assembly 17 to 21 November 2003, the Bishops of Chile deal with delica ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS AMERICA/GUATEMALA “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSIO ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “WE CANNOT BE SILENT ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD”: CAM2 MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “We cannot be silent about what we have seen and heard” is the title of the CAM2 Message to the People of God dated 29 November 2003. Under five sub headings the Message speaks of t ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CENTRAL AMERICA’S MISSIONARY PLAN “A DREAM TO MAKE TRUE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”: OBJECTIVES INCLUDE A CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION FORMATION CENTRE AND STRONGER LOCAL ANIMATION STRUCTURES: NEXT CAM 3 IN ECUADOR 2007 Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Central American Missionary ad gentes Plan was presented to participants at CAM2 on Saturday 29 November, Europe Day, Father Victor Livori Fides correspondent in Guatemala reported. ...
• 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 ...