America

• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Assessing preparations for CAM 3, COMLA 5 and study of new PMS statutes focus of Meeting for PMS National Directors of America Mexico City (Fides Service) - From 21 to 24 March the 2nd meeting for National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in America was held in Mexico City. The participants were 31 delegates from the PMS national ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Pontifical Mission Societies organise “Easter with Young People”: an alternative way of living Holy Week and growing in personal mission responsibility awareness Lima (Fides) - As part of on-going efforts to spread a spirit of mission among young people the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru through its missionary youth movement ‘Jóvenes sin Fronteras’, has organised the 2 ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Religious life was born in the Church as a prophetic reminder that our home is not the earth, we are on a pilgrimage towards a new earth and new heavens": Final message of national meeting of conference of major superiors Santiago (Fides Service) - A final message issued at the end of the 37th National Meeting of the Conference of Major Superiors of Chile CONFERRE said the present situation represents a challenge for the religious life. A ...
• 4 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Ayacucho archdiocese launches “Great Mission” in view of Jubilee year 2009 to mark 400 years of foundation Ayacucho (Fides Service) - To prepare to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Ayacucho ecclesastical circumscription (20 July 1609) with a Jubilee year in 2009 the archdiocese of Ayacucho has called a “ ...
• 4 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In Holy Week two thousand young people will take part in missions of evangelisation and human promotion Yucatan (Fides Service) - About 2,000 young people members of 130 groups of apostolate are preparing for a mission of evangelisation and human promotion in villages in the Mexican state of Yucatan, known as “Diocesan H ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - For the first time S. Egidio Community’s annual International Meeting of People and Religions will be held in the United States 26 and 27 April in Washington Rome (Fides Service) - In October 1986 Pope John Paul II convoked in Assisi a World Day of Prayer for Peace, an unprecedented historic event which saw representatives of the world’s great religions gathered around the ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Prayer vigils and masses all over the country to celebrate the legacy of John Paul II ; new edition of “He stays with us” book on the Pope’s visit to Chile in 1987 Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - Catholics all over Chile will remember Pope John Paul II with prayer vigils and masses on the first anniversary of his passing to the Home of the Father. On Sunday 2 April Cardinal Fra ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexican Bishops statement a year from the death of Pope John Paul II: “His greatness was the fruit of his profound unity with Christ”: prayers and masses at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City (Fides Service) - “We are filled with the treasure of grace of John Paul II who from his very first visit to our country triggered a process of pastoral dynamism which has fortified us enormously” the Bi ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Solemn Mass in Lima and in dioceses all over Peru on 1st anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II Lima (Fides Service) - Catholics in the Peruvian capital have been invited to take part a special Mass of thanksgiving for the life of Pope John Paul II in Lima cathedral on Sunday 2 April at 11 am in memory of the ‘pi ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Profound sadness for the murder of Italian missionary Mgr. Bruno Baldacci Vitória da Conquista (Fides Service) - The lifeless body of Bruno Baldacci, an Italian priest from the diocese of Las Spezia, was found on 30 March in the priest’s room at the parish of Nossa Senhora das Candeias of w ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops’ statement on USA/Mexico Migratory Agreement: “We join the Bishops of the United States in calling for a reform which is just and reasonable, does not exclude anyone and always recognises that these are laws which strike human beings” Mexico City (Fides Service) - “We join the Bishops of the United States in calling for a reform which is just and reasonable, does not exclude anyone and always recognises that these are laws which strike human beings� ...
• 30 March 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The work and teaching of John Paul II will be the theme of conferences organised by Bogota archdiocese to commemorate the late Pope on the 1st anniversary of his death Bogota (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Bogota has planned a number of initiatives to commemorate Pope John Paul II on the first anniversary of his death including three conferences on the figure, work and teaching o ...
• 28 March 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Pro Life-Venezuela forum calls for more synergy between organisations working to protect human life at every stage Caracas (Fides Service) - As part of initiatives for the Pro-Life Week in Venezuela (see Fides 18/3/2006), organised by the Venezuelan Bishops’ Family and Childhood Commission numerous pro-life organisations and groups ...
• 28 March 2006
  AMERICA - Minutes of 1st Conference of Church Movements and New Communities held in Bogota 9-12 March available on the Internet Bogota ( Fides Service) - The general secretariat of CELAM and the department for ecclesial communion and dialogue have made available on the Internet the minutes of the 1st Conference of Church Movements and New Commun ...
• 27 March 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Meeting for diocesan PMS Directors: “the Church entrusts you with a special mandate which comes from Christ and sets you at the heart of ecclesial life ” Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - Diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies are “called to be the chief agents of missionary animation and cooperation”, a task which “the Church entrusts to you as a spe ...