America

• 16 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Cold proposals of euthanasia cannot alleviate the suffering of the sick and their families, they merely indicate of a total lack of understanding and knowledge of the human person” says secretary of the Bishops’ Conference Santiago (Fides Service) - “Can death wilfully caused for example by a lethal injection be a 'happy death'? Is not natural death, with the use of scientific means to alleviate bodily pain and at the same time all the ...
• 16 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Evangelising university culture, young people points of reference and witnesses to the faith for fellow students: Mar de Plata launches 1st University Mission Mar de Plata (Fides Service) - University pastoral in Mar de Plata has organised its 1st University Mission, we are told by D. Ezequiel E. Kseim, university pastoral advisor and Analía E. Benítez, head of University Pa ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The law is not always moral and believers must realise in conscience that abortion is still a crime also in the civil field. The Church punishes it with excommunication" says Cardinal Rubiano Sáenz Bogota (Fides Service) - After Colombia’s Constitutional Court legalised abortion in that country Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Sáenz Archbishop of Bogota issued a statement recalling that the Church punishes abortion with � ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops at communication school: formation seminar in the field of communications to foster diffusion of the Gospel message in the present-day context Asuncion (Fides Service) - The Church is not foreign to the world of communications, she is aware of the importance of the media and influence they have on the way individuals and communities think and behave transmittin ...
• 15 May 2006
  AMERICA - 5th General CELAM Conference count down: "this event will give new impulse to the faith on our Continent" Bogota (Fides Service) - “To take up the challenges of the third millennium in personal, family, pastoral and social life in our Latin American countries and take a step towards the encounter with the Living Jesus, we ...
• 12 May 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Missiology Today: a series of meetings to reflect on various aspects of missionary activity today and identify adequate responses to most urgent challenges Santiago (Fides Service) - Missiology Today is the title of a series of meetings starting on Saturday 13 May organised by the national office for the Pontifical Missionary Union in Chile and the Society of the Missionari ...
• 12 May 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “This sentence will have grave consequences which attack the fundamental cultural, moral e religious values of our nation” say Catholic Bishops after ruling to legalise abortion. A dossier reveals plan to introduce abortion throughout Latin America Bogota (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Colombia have expressed deep concern with regard to a decision taken by the Constitutional Court Wednesday 10 May to partially legalise abortion. “The Bishops’ Confere ...
• 11 May 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Nuevo Trigo singers compose songs to stir and strengthen mission spirit among children Quito (Fides Service) - For ten years the Nuevo Trigo musical group (New Seed), has composed and distributed religious music for the missionary animation and formation of boys and girls and adolescents all over Latin Ame ...
• 10 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - 1st National Meeting of RIIAL-Peru: ‘The Pope urges us to be messengers of God’s Love and the new means of communication Information Technology is a most appropriate means to achieve this goal, message from President of Pontifical Council for Social Communications Lima (Fides Service) - The 1st National Meeting of RIIAL-Peru opened yesterday 9 May in Lima, with the title “For a Human Network of Answers and Aid” and will close on 13 May. About 90 participants from all over the ...
• 9 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "Family pastoral, hope for the family of the third millennium ": diocese of Huacho strives to intensify family pastoral and restore awareness of the family’s important role and value Huacho (Fides Service) - For three days 19 - 21 May the diocese of Huacho in Peru will host the 1st Meeting for Family Pastoral organised by the diocesan Commission for Family Pastoral. Participants will include parish ...
• 9 May 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - At the start of their general assembly on the theme of evangelisation of youth Brazilian Bishops ask “will we succeed in handing on the deposit of faith to the new generations?” Itaici (Fides Service) - Evangelisation of youth is the theme of the 44th general assembly of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference 9 - 17 May. The Bishops consider the theme of utmost importance because the handing on of ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - "To be witnesses of the sacred and inalienable value of each human life means to contribute to humanising the Canadian society”: National March for Life on May 11th Ottawa (Fides Agency) - “The greatest treasure of Canada: its people” was the title of the message published by the Catholic Organisation for Life and Family for the National March for Life, to be held in Canada for ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The diocesan delegates of the Missionary Groups in search of common criteria to evangelise the most distant and disadvantaged areas of the country and form lay ad gentes missionaries Buenos Aires (Fides Agency) - Summoned by the National Council of Missions, the Delegates of 21 Argentinean dioceses gathered recently in the national headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies to take part in the ...
• 5 May 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - "For a human network of responses and help”: first meeting of RIIAL-Peru, to help the members of the Church use the computer in their pastoral activity Lima (Fides Agency) - From May 9 to 13, the Computer Network of the Church in Latin-America in Peru (RIIAL-Peru), will hold its first seminar with the slogan “For a human network of responses and help”. The main obje ...
• 4 May 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The fifth CELAM General Conference “will show new routes for the evangelising mission of the Church”: Message of the Bolivian Bishops at the end of their Plenary Assembly Cochabamba (Fides Agency) - At the end of their 82nd Plenary Assembly, the Bishops of Bolivia published a Message addressed to the People of God on the topics they consider of greatest concern in the crucial era their Co ...