America

• 14 September 2009
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - III National Missionary Congress leads to commitment “to strengthen sense of belonging to the Church of Christ, as disciple and missionary, to assume the commitment to evangelization where it is most needed” San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - “To strengthen sense of belonging to the Church of Christ, as disciple and missionary, to assume the commitment to evangelization where it is most needed.” This general objective characteri ...
• 14 September 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Family Day: Archbishop of Lima exhorts engaged couples to be concerned “with that which unites” and tells parents to be “primary educators” of their children with their example Lima (Agenzia Fides) – “A society that openly kills the unborn is a sick society.” This is what the Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, said in a radio show “Faith Dialogue” on Saturday, September ...
• 11 September 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Marian Mission and Permanent Mission of Military Diocese begin: “With Mary, Our Mother, Missionary Disciples for Bolivia” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 9, at the Cathedral of La Paz, Bishop Gonzalo del Castillo, Military Bishop of Bolivia, presided the Mass at the beginning of the Marian Mission and the Permanent Missio ...
• 11 September 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Migrant Week 2009: “Establishing dignity in cultural diversity”: “offering a testimony of fraternal charity at the service of our brother immigrants and refugees” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “Establishing dignity in cultural diversity” will be the theme of Migrant Week 2009, which will be held in Colombia, September 13-20. The event is coordinated by the Section of Human Mobility ...
• 11 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “With Mary, missionary and pilgrims of hope”: 17th Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in San Nicola, 75th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Rosario Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - “With Mary, missionaries and pilgrims of hope” is the theme of the 17th pilgrimage on foot between the cities of Rosario and San Nicola, which will take place Saturday, September 12 and Sund ...
• 11 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - City of Salta celebrates “El Señor y la Virgen del Milagro” that preserved the city from an earthquake Salta (Agenzia Fides) – On September 8, feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Cathedral of Salta, a novena was begun in honor of “El Señor y la Virgen del Milagro” (The Lord and the Virgen of th ...
• 11 September 2009
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Eucharistic Congress sponsored by Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious: “Sacrifice of Enduring Love” Washington, DC (Agenzia Fides) – The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) is inviting all faithful to attend a Eucharistic Congress on September 11-12, 2009 in Washington, DC at the Basilica of the Nat ...
• 10 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - September 12-13, “Mas por menos” National Collection “to offer the Catholic Church's grain of sand in the fight against marginalization in our country” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “More solidarity for less marginalization.” This is the theme of the 40th “Mas por menos” National Collection that will take place in Argentina this weekend (September 12-13), being ...
• 10 September 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Symposium on Missiology: “That which we have heard and seen we now know” Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From September 17-19, the house of the Crusade Missionaries in Cochabamba will host the II Bolivian Symposium of Missiology on: “That which we have heard and seen we now know.” The even ...
• 10 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Puerto Iguazu visits tornado disaster area to express Church's solidarity with victims Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – After a tornado tore through the City of San Pedro on the night of September 7-8, Bishop Marcelo Raul Martorell of Puerto Iguazu went to visit the towns of Santa Rosa, Pozo Azul, and Tobu ...
• 9 September 2009
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Year for Priests: Archdiocese of San Jose celebrates a “Week of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests” San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – Since Sunday, September 6, the Archdiocese of San Jose (Costa Rica) has been celebrating a “Week of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests.” The initiative is part of the Year for Pries ...
• 9 September 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Day for Pastoral-Social Ministry in the Archdiocese of La Plata, on “Dissemination and Application of the Social Doctrine of the Church,” to reflect on “Caritas in Veritate” La Plata (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning today, September 9, and continuing every Wednesday of the month, in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, there will be a Pastoral-Social Ministry Day in the Archdiocese of La Plata ...
• 9 September 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Celebrations for Jubilee Year of Archdiocese of Cali begin, in commemoration of centennial anniversary of its erection Cali (Agenzia Fides) – On September 8, Feast of Our Lady of the Remedies, Patroness of the Archdiocese of Cali, the Archdiocese officially began its Jubilee Year in honor of the centennial anniversary of its erection. ...
• 8 September 2009
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - President of Bishops' Conference on the bill for homosexual unions: the Church sees the family as “a value of utmost importance, to be defended from anything that could threaten its unity or existence” San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – Approve unions between persons of the same sex is an unconstitutional action. This is what was affirmed by Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Hurena of San Jose, President of the Costa Rican Bishops' ...
• 8 September 2009
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop of Lima on the Anniversary of the “Children's Fraternity of the Lord of the Miracles”: “May we all give thanks to God for the miracle of our own life, which is renewed in every moment.” Lima (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, September 6, at the Cathedral of Lima, the Archbishop of the city, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, celebrated a Mass at the beginning of the week of celebrations for the 358th anni ...