America

• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - PÉREZ DE CUELLAR TELLS FIDES: “THE HOLY FATHER’S GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS PEACE AT THE POLITICAL DIPLOMATIC LEVEL IS THAT AS A PERSON HE IS A PERMANENT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO PEACE” Lima (Fides Service) - Among the many personalities in Rome to take part in celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate there was also Ambassador Javier Pérez De Cuellar, charged by the Peru ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/UN - PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN. ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE HOLY SEE PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSES GENERAL ASSEMBLY New York (Fides Service) – “The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force in September 1990. That same month, a World Summit for Children was held to adopt the Declaration on the Survival, Protectio ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PREPARATION FOR CAM2 AND MISSION YEAR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON MISSION AMONG THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL AMERICA SAY PMS NATIONAL DIRECTORS Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “The fact that we have assumed responsibility both for the preparation of CAM 2 and for the celebration of Mission Year has united us all the more and given us the chance to engage in c ...
• 20 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - A MONTH OF CULTURAL EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – For the whole month of October the Church in Chile has organised a series of events to celebrate the 25 years of Pope John Paul II pontificate’s. The events are organised jointly b ...
• 18 October 2003
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “IN THESE TIMES OF RELATIVISM HIS FIDELITY ON ALL FRONTS IS A LESSON OF COURAGE FOR ALL BELIEVERS” BISHOPS OF URUGUAY SAY OF JOHN PAUL II NOW IN HIS 26TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE Montevideo (Fides Service ) – The Bishops Conference of Uruguay issued a message to Catholics in which they express gratitude to His Holiness Pope Jon Paul II for the 25th anniversary of his election to the See of Pete ...
• 18 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - MISSION SUNDAY: “WITH MARY, OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHRIST’S MISSION”, 42.000 STUDENTS ANIMATE PRO MISSION COLLECTIONS Lima (Fides Service ) – “With Mary open your heart to Christ’s Mission” was the slogan chosen for World Mission Sunday 2003 by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru in collaboration with the Peruvian Ca ...
• 17 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - MISSION SUNDAY – CATHOLICS MUST REALISE THAT LIFE IS MISSION, IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM LIFE IN MISSION AND TO GIVE LIFE TO MISSION Brasilia (Fides Service) – In a message for Mission Sunday 2003 entitled “The Church and the Missions in the 21st Century”, Father Daniel Lagni, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, say ...
• 14 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: “CHURCH IN BRAZIL YOUR VOCATION IS MISSION ”: LIVING MISSION SUNDAY WITH AWARENESS Sao Paulo (Fides Service) – In Brazil world Mission Sunday promoted by the national Pontifical Mission Societies office is celebrated in close collaboration with the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference. “We start our mis ...
• 13 October 2003
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTERS: 22 KILLED IN EL ALTO CITY, AT LEAST 60 INJURED IN THE ANTI-GAS WAR AGAINST THE GOVERNEMNT PLAN TO EXPORT NATURAL GAS Rome (Fides Service) – At least 22 people were killed and at least 60 injured in clashes between police and protesters in uprisings which have bloodied Bolivia for the past 48 hours, in particular in the capita, La Paz ...
• 13 October 2003
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 12,885 CASES OF DENGUE: INFECTION SPREADING, CONCERN FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE RAINS START? Rome (Fides Service) – Costa Rican Health Ministry recently communicated alarming developments in the epidemic of Dengue in Costa Rica. Of 12,885 cases of infection reported, 38 are suffering from acute haemorrhage fev ...
• 9 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - ROSARY AND MISSION: COURSE ON MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION WITH MARY AS MODEL Lima (Fides Service) – “The Holy Rosary and Mission” is the theme of a course in Missionary Spirituality and Formation which will be held 5-7 November in Lima at the Auditorium of the Conference of Major Superiors ...
• 8 October 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - SYMPOSIUM AT UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK TO MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PACEM IN TERRIS BY JOHN XXII AND THE 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF JOHN PAUL II. SERVITOR PACIS PRIZE AWARDED TO LATE DR. CARLO URBANI AND TO MOTHER TERESA’S MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY New York (Fides Service) – “It is ever more opportune to consider the valuable indications offered by Pacem in Terris in front of the necessity, once again so urgent, to clarify the figure of world public powers. Par ...
• 6 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “THE HOLY FATHER IS THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF THE WELCOMING FATHER WHO RECEIVES THE PRODIGAL SON HE IS THE FORTRESS OF THE MARTYR, HE IS THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: CARD. CIPRIANI AT THE END OF THE “ROSARY FOR THE POPE PAPA” FOR WHICH THOUSANDS GATHERED IN THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL Lima (Fides Service) – Thousands of faithful prayed yesterday Sunday 5 October in Piazza Maggiore in Lima (Peru), on the occasion of the closing of the year of the Rosary called by John Paul II and the recurrence of th ...
• 3 October 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A LIFE DEDICATED STUDY AND RESEARCH TO HELP THE HELPLESS, FIDES MET DR KEVIN CAHILL Rome (Fides Service) – Professor Kevin Cahill is a major world expert in tropical diseases. He recently published a book on his years of experience in some of the poorest areas of the world in which he says that the mo ...
• 1 October 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - COMBONI MISSIONARIES AND THE MEDIA: “WE HAVE EARNED READERS WHO KNOW THEY FIND IN OUR PUBLICATIONS INFORMATION THAT THEY CANNOT FIND ELSEWHERE” Mexico City (Fides Service) – On 21 May 1871 in a letter to the Bishop of Verona Daniele Comboni, the great evangeliser of Africa, said that since January 1 that year he had written no less than 1,347 letters to friend ...