America

• 30 November 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Double efforts to free humanity of most tragic form of poverty: ignorance of Jesus Christ and of humanity’s vocation and final destiny” Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples message to participants at Mexico’s 13th National Mission Congress Mérida-Yucatàn (Fides Service) - With an address of welcome by Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán of Yucatán, and a solemn Mass presided by the Archbishop of Mexico City diocese Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carr ...
• 29 November 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Theology Symposium in preparation for 13th National Mission Congress in Mexico focuses on Doctrinal principles of Redemptoris Missio encyclical Merida -Yucatán (Fides Service) - In preparation for the 13th National Mission Congress in Mexico, 30 November - 3 December, a Theology Symposium on the Encyclical Redemptoris missino was opened yesterday 28 November b ...
• 29 November 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - Rediscovering marriage as good news, believing in love, self giving and faithfulness : Chilean Bishops issue pastoral letter on “Matrimony and Family, good news for humanity ” Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - At the end of its 90th plenary assembly in Punta de Tralca 21 to 25 November, the Chilean Bishops’ Conference issued a Pastoral Letter “Matrimony and Family - Good News for Humani ...
• 28 November 2005
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA “Indigenous leadership in the Christian inter-cultural perspective” focus of 4th National Meeting for Indigenous and Missionaries in Caracas Caracas (Fides Service) - The 4th National Meeting for Indigenous and Missionaries was held in Caracas from 24 - 26 November. The meeting, held every two years since 1996, is organised by Indigenous Communities and the N ...
• 28 November 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “AIDS is not only a question of health it is a matter of morals”: Peruvian Bishops statement distributed in parishes in view of World AIDS Day 1 December Lima (Fides Service) - In view of World AIDS Day December 1 the Catholic Bishops of Peru issued a statement for distribution to every parish in which they express solidarity with people suffering from HIV/AIDS and their ...
• 25 November 2005
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Catholics in Brazil start traditional national Advent evangelisation campaign: the time has come for the Church in Brazil to move from receiving to giving and to shoulder responsibility for evangelisation in Brazil with its own resources and energies Brasilia (Fides Service) - “Annuncia Me!” is the slogan of this year’s annual national Advent evangelisation campaign organised by the Church in Brazil. Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, archbishop of Sao Salvador d ...
• 24 November 2005
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - El Alto diocese closes first diocesan synod with new Pastoral Plan 2006-2010 fruit of 5 years of study reflection and discussion El Alto (Fides Service) - Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November, after 5 intense years of reflection, study and discussion, the diocese of El Alto in Bolivia closes its 1st diocesan synod with the presentation of a new Past ...
• 23 November 2005
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The country which bears the same of Christ the Saviour navigates in a sea of violence: Catholic Bishops of El Salvador rally the people “do not be overcome by evil” San Salvador (Fides Service) - On the feast of Our Lady of Peace patroness of El Salvador the country’s Catholics Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter “Do not be overcome by evil” in which they reflect on the responsib ...
• 22 November 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops backed by various lay groups call for a public debate on law to make sexual education compulsory in schools Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - In the framework of a national debate on a government campaign to render sexual education compulsory in public and private schools and in the face of a possible rapid approval of a law with ...
• 21 November 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “The Church of go and preach is the missionary and martyr Church of the martyrs”: over 50,000 gather in Guadalajara for Beatification of 13 martyrs killed during persecution (10 laymen including an adolescent, and 3 priests) Guadalajara (Fides Service) - On Sunday 20 November at Jalisco Sports Centre in Guadalajara, there was a solemn Mass with the Beatification of 13 Mexican martyrs: laymen Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, Luis Padilla Gomez, Jorg ...
• 19 November 2005
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - “It is urgent restore the foundations of social harmony, create spaces for dialogue and foster common efforts to promote solidarity, justice and respect for the truth” say Catholic Bishops of Nicaragua Managua (Fides Service) - The Bishops of Nicaragua denounce with concern growing spiritual and material poverty signs of which are “a loss of values and progressive social frustration” and underline the urgent need t ...
• 19 November 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops statement on legalisation of abortion: “Abortion is an abominable crime which violates the fundamental right to life of the unborn child and configures a serious moral disorder” Bogota (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, faithful to the Gospel of Life and faced with discussion in the Constitutional Court and the national congress on the legalisation of abortion� ...
• 19 November 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - Thousands gather for first Eucharistic Congress in Tarma diocese on the theme “Eucharist, Epiphany of Diocesan Communion” Tarma (Fides Service) - Thousands of people including bishops, priests, religious, seminarians, catechists and lay parish delegates are taking part in first Eucharistic Congress in Tarma diocese on the interesting and d ...
• 19 November 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Remembering with gratitude their recent meeting with Benedict XVI the Catholic Bishops of Mexico vow to respond to his call to be: “promoters and examples of communion to valorise temporal realities and illuminate them with the Gospel” Mexico (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Mexico gathered for its 80th general assembly 7 to 10 November, discussed the restructuring of the country’s ecclesiastical provinces in view of more effec ...
• 18 November 2005
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “It is time for candidates to show they want power not for personal or group ambitions and interests but to protect life in its different stages and govern the country with ethic and moral values”: Statement by Catholic Bishops of Bolivia La Paz (Fides Service) - ‘Walking with hope towards the elections’ is the title of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Bolivia gathered for a plenary assembly as the Season of Advent draws near with regard ...