America

• 23 March 2009
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Archbishop Hugo Barrantes reestablishes Permanent Diaconate in the Archdiocese of San Jose San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña of San Jose (Costa Rica) has issued a decree whereby the Permanent Diaconate is reestablished in the Archdiocese of San Jose. The Archbishop mentions in the de ...
• 23 March 2009
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops' Conference asks new president to seek unification of the country in response to the global financial crisis San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador has asked the newly elected President of the country, Mauricio Funes, that the newly formed governing body (to take effect June 1) may be one “of unit ...
• 21 March 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Spanish priest shot to death, after 34 years of working with street children Recife (Agenzia Fides) – Police sources have informed that 64 year-old Father Ramiro Ludeña, a native of Toledo (Spain) was killed yesterday, March 20, in Recife, in northeastern Brazil where he had been working 34 ye ...
• 20 March 2009
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Week for Life and the Family to conclude with large March for Life on March 25 La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – This past March 16 marked the initiation of the Week for Life and the Family with an exposition entitled “Maria Gravida” and a conference on “The Goodness of Marriage,” which was given ...
• 20 March 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We are asking for justice and we offer Christian forgiveness.” - Statement from the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Carreño following the murder of two religious Puerto Carreño (Agenzia Fides) – “Those of us who perform evangelizational services in this Vicariate feel our hearts broken by this cruel act of murder,” says the statement issued by Redemptorist Missionary Franc ...
• 18 March 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' Conference denounces with profound grief the murder of two religious, an act that “goes against all the desires for reconciliation and peace that the Church has been preaching” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – In a statement of profound grief, the Bishops' Conference of Colombia denounced the murder of two members of the Redemptorist Order: Gabriel Fernando Montoya Tamayo (40 years) y Jesús Ariel J ...
• 18 March 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Oran denounces serious health crisis in the wake of the landslide, dengue epidemic is feared Oran (Agenzia Fides) – The Oran Bishop's Office has issued a statement on the “grave health situation” being experienced recently and urges all the faithful, “as the diocesan Church,” to “work and fight toget ...
• 17 March 2009
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Human Life International presents the “Cardinal Von Galen” Award to the President of the Bishops' Conference for defending human rights and life Quito (Agenzia Fides) - “With great joy we received the news of the 'Cardinal Von Galen' Award to be presented to Archbishop Antonio Arregui of Guayaquil, President of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, for his untiri ...
• 17 March 2009
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Assembly of PMS Diocesan Directors concludes: “May God grant us the missionary zeal to transmit the joy and enthusiasm of knowing Jesus to others Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – After four days of prayer and hard work, the National Assembly of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) Diocesan Directors of Argentina has finally come to a close, with a Mass held in the c ...
• 17 March 2009
  AMERICA/CANADA - Flying to Montreal - A suitcase tied with string (correspondence from Luca De Mata - 16) Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - After spending time in Belgium, I am on my way to Canada. In my investigation into immigration or better, into the movement of peoples from one continent to another, I am confronted with a phe ...
• 16 March 2009
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Latin American Bishops' Conferences reflect on the Continental Mission and the social and political situation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – On March 10-12, the city of Bogota (Colombia) hosted an Encounter for Secretary Generals and Delegates from Bishops' Conferences, on the Continental Mission. The convention organized by Secret ...
• 16 March 2009
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Day of the Unborn Child, March 25: Archbishop of Panama City calls for prayers for the millions of unborn children and their mothers Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Jose Dimas Cedeño Delgado of Panama City wrote a letter to all the faithful of the Archdiocese, recalling the fact that in several countries with a strong Catholic tradition, a ...
• 13 March 2009
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Youth Encounter: to give spirit to the Continental Mission Taguatinga (Agenzia Fides) – Luzivaldo Espindola Rocha, Missionary Youth Coordinator, informed Fides that the Missionary Youth Encounter was held in the Diocese of Porto Nacional, in the city of Taguatinga on March 6-8 ...
• 13 March 2009
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - IV National Youth Missionary Congress, with the theme “Evangelization of the Young Person in Today's World” Cumana (Agenzia Fides) – With the objective of “renewing, reaffirming, and celebrating the call, the awareness, and the baptismal commitment of Venezuela's youth, in order to respond to the great challenges of the mi ...
• 12 March 2009
  AMERICA - “Now is the time to act; otherwise it will be too late for everyone”: Final Declaration from the CELAM-MISEREOR Symposium on the present economic situation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Now is the time to act; otherwise it will be too late for everyone. We need to make an immediate response and stop adopting isolated and disintegrated measures that only aim at maintaini ...