America

• 23 February 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - In Lent Archbishop of Buenos Aires calls Catholics to “give impulse to new evangelisation, to go beyond known things, towards the fringes and frontiers where humanity suffers most” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has urged Catholics of the archdiocese to "live the season of Lent as a Church which prays and reflects and does penance so that ...
• 21 February 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Catholics at Nuestra Señora del Carmen parish celebrate 180th anniversary Bella Vista (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate its 180th anniversary the parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen parish in Bella Vista, Argentina has organised various initiatives. Among the different cultural activities alre ...
• 21 February 2007
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Love is the Only Light ” is the theme of a 2007 Collection for Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, to build churches and support seminaries, social services, evangelisation Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “Love is the Only Light ” is the theme of a 2007 Collection for Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe organised by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The theme dr ...
• 20 February 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Piura offers a collection of reflections and suggestions to help the faithful live Lent as a time of grace and growth in the faith Piura (Agenzia Fides) - “Lent is a time to confirm our faith in the Lord Jesus and our determination to announce his mystery of salvation with new zeal” Archbishop José Antonio Eguren Anselmi said in a Lenten Lette ...
• 20 February 2007
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Fraternity and the Amazon” Fraternity Campaign 2007 calls attention to tragic situation of the Amazon peoples and their forests a ‘treasure to cherish’ Belem (Agenzia Fides) - Fraternity and the Amazon Region is the theme of the 2007 Lenten Fraternity Campaigned promoted and launched today Ash Wednesday 21 February by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil. This y ...
• 19 February 2007
  AMERICA/CANADA - Joint delegation Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and Canadian Catholic Organisation for Development and Peace visits reconstruction programmes in tsunami stricken areas Montreal (Fides Service) - A joint delegation of the Canadian Catholic Organisation for Development and Peace DP and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops CCCB is visiting Indonesia to review the successful reconst ...
• 17 February 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Ninety year old Italian Consolata missionary dies of injuries inflicted by robbers Manizalez (Fides Service) - A ninety year old Italian Consolata missionary Fr Mario Bianco died in Manizales, Colombia, on 15 February after being attacked ten days earlier on 4 February by thieves. The bandits broke int ...
• 17 February 2007
  AMERICA/PERU - In our times the Church calls us, priests especially, to bear witness to the cross the ‘sign of contradiction’: Cardinal Cipriani addresses Lenten Letter to Priests Lima (Fides Service) - Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru, addressed a Lenten Letter to his priests reminding them that their mission in the Church demands " continual personal con ...
• 16 February 2007
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - “The nature of matrimony cannot be redefined because this would undermine the fundamental values which belong to the common and original heritage of the human family” president of Bishops’ Conference criticises proposed reform of Civil Code San Juan de Puerto Rico (Agenzia Fides) - On February 14 during a public debate on proposed amendments to the country’s Civil Code Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan San Juan de Puerto Rico president of B ...
• 15 February 2007
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Young Builders of a New School and a New World”: Catholic Student Week calls young people to build a civilisation of love Caracas (Fides Service) - In view of the annual Student’s Day celebrated by the Church in Venezuela on the Sunday following February 12 the animators and advisers of Youth and Student Pastoral Care of the Venezuelan As ...
• 14 February 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We promise to make our prophetic voice heard to denounce falsehood and corruption and to announce the truth”: Catholic Bishops call for reconciliation and respect for the truth Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “We, the members of the Church, lay people, religious, clergy, and bishops, admit our limits and promise to make our prophetic voice heard to denounce falsehood and corruption and to announce t ...
• 13 February 2007
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 25 years at the service of formation for mission: Juan Pablo II Missiology Centre Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 February the Juan Pablo II Missiology Centre in Buenos Aires celebrated its 25th anniversary and 25 years of activity at the service of Formation priest, religious and lay people in t ...
• 9 February 2007
  AMERICA/PANAMA - “We refuse to be simply spectators while minority groups impose on society legal patterns foreign to our culture and heritage": Pro Life Manifesto at the end of a Pro-Life March in Chitré Chitré (Agenzia Fides) - Families and educators of Panama’s Azuero region diocese of Chitré, concerned by a loss of values in society especially the greatest of all values, human life a gift of God, organised a Pro-L ...
• 8 February 2007
  AMERICA - CELAM 5 will not discuss dogmatic questions, it will be entirely missionary and pastoral": final preparations Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) - “Starting from Jesus Christ and his Revelation we attempted to see how the Spirit is calling us to be present in this culturally new America, and identify from a point of view of ec ...
• 6 February 2007
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We ask for more missionary commitment, first of all from ourselves ... we wish to hear the missionary mandate resound with all its demands”: in plenary assembly bishops discuss missionary activity Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - " We ask for more missionary commitment, first of all from ourselves ... we wish to hear the missionary mandate resound with all its demands, struggle for its goals and realise all this as Church ...