America

• 22 December 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “CHRISTMAS IS JESUS. GIVE HOPE TO 50.000 CHILDREN”: MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE 2003 SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Lima (Fides Service ) - “To rediscover the authentic meaning of Christmas, that is the birth of Jesus Christ made Man for our salvation,” is the objective of a solidarity campaign “Christmas is Jesus. Give hope t ...
• 18 December 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “TO BE MISSIONARY MEANS IGNORING BORDERS, GOING BEYOND FRONTIERS. THIS IS OUR CHARISMA”: GUIDELINES PROMOTE MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD ACTIVITY IN BRAZIL Brasilia (Fides Service) – Study, reflection and programming of activities regarding the Pontifical Mission Society of Missionary Childhood for 2004 was the focus of the annual national meeting of Missionary Childhood ...
• 16 December 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “THE CHRISTMAS OFFER OF FORGIVENESS AND NEW LIFE MUST NOT BE LEFT TO PASS IN VAIN: MESSAGE OF PERUVIAN BISHOPS FOR INTEGRAL RECONCILIATION BASED ON TRUTH AND JUSTICE” Lima (Fides Service) – “Let us make way for the Lord” is the title of a Christmas Message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Peru a copy of which was sent to Fides by Bishop Juan José Larrañeta Olleta, Vicar Apos ...
• 15 December 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - FIRST CONGRESS FOR ITALIAN MISSIONARIES: IN RURAL AREAS, IN GREAT CITIES, AMONG NATIVE PEOPLES, ITALIAN PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS AND LAY MISSIONARIES INSERTED IN ARGENTINEAN CULTURE ADOPT AUTHENTIC SPIRIT OF SERVICE Buenos Aires (Fides Service ) – The first Congress for Italian Missionaries in Argentina closed on 12 December with a Concelebration of Mass presided by Archbishop Eduardo Mirás of Rosario also President of the Argent ...
• 11 December 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “ARGENTINA DURING THE CRISIS AND POST CRISIS: CHALLENGES FOR THE CHURCH”: ONE OF THE THEMES OF A MEETING FOR ITALIAN MISSIONARIES IN ARGENTINA PROMOTED BY THE RESPECTIVE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES Buenos Aires (Fides Service) – The Bishops’ Conferences of Italy CEI and Argentina have organised a meeting for Italian missionaries working in Argentina being held at the Centro Mariapolis in Buenos Aires, from 9 to ...
• 11 December 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “CHRISTMAS ON THE STREETS 2003”: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND FAMILIES PREPARE FOR TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS EVE SOLIDARITY NIGHT TO SHARE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE OF JOY AND HOPE WITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN NEED Santiago (Fides Service) –"Where is the One who is born?”(cfr Mt 2,2) is the slogan of the traditional ‘Christmas on the Streets’ initiative organised by the office for university Pastoral in the Archdiocese of S ...
• 10 December 2003
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - NIVACLE PEOPLE PROUD OF SISTER CLARA: FIRST RELIGIOUS AMONG THE LOCAL INDIAN PEOPLE Asuncion (Fides Service) - Since 1925 the Oblate Missionaries of Immaculate Mary (OMI) have worked among the Nivacle Indian peoples in the Chaco region of Paraguay and since the 1940s also with the Guarani peoples in the ...
• 5 December 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - BIO-ETHICS COMMISSION OF THE CHILEAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE SAYS EDUCATION IN HUMAN SEXUALITY MUST BE BASED ON THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON Santiago (Fides Service) – The Bio-Ethics Commission of the Chilean Bishops’ Conference has called the public’s attention to the danger of AIDS prevention campaigns, imposing the use of condoms generating false sec ...
• 5 December 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - THE CHALLENGES OF PACEM IN TERRIS FOR A GLOBALISED WORLD : 7TH SOCIAL WEEK ORGANISED BY BISHOPS CONFERENCE Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The 7th Social Week organised by Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Peru will take place from 9 to 12 December 2003, at the Collegio De Jesús, Pueblo Libre, Lima, with the theme “The Challenges ...
• 5 December 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - ARCHBISHOP OF BUENOS AIRES GIVES MISSIONARY MANDATE TO 1000 MISSIONARIES TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CAPITAL AND BEYOND IN RURAL AREAS Buenos Aires (Fides Service) – Some 1000 city missionaries will be given the solemn Mandate by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires and primate of the Church Argentina, on 6 December 2003, during ...
• 2 December 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “HUMAN DIGNITY THE MOST DESIRED AND VALUABLE GOOD OF OUR SOCIETY”: CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CHILE CALL FOR WATCHFULNESS AND SOLIDARITY Santiago (Fides Service ) – In a final statement entitled “Let us treat others as we would have them treat us” issued at the end of their 86th assembly 17 to 21 November 2003, the Bishops of Chile deal with delica ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS AMERICA/GUATEMALA “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSIO ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “WE CANNOT BE SILENT ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD”: CAM2 MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “We cannot be silent about what we have seen and heard” is the title of the CAM2 Message to the People of God dated 29 November 2003. Under five sub headings the Message speaks of t ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CENTRAL AMERICA’S MISSIONARY PLAN “A DREAM TO MAKE TRUE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”: OBJECTIVES INCLUDE A CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION FORMATION CENTRE AND STRONGER LOCAL ANIMATION STRUCTURES: NEXT CAM 3 IN ECUADOR 2007 Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Central American Missionary ad gentes Plan was presented to participants at CAM2 on Saturday 29 November, Europe Day, Father Victor Livori Fides correspondent in Guatemala reported. ...
• 1 December 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD CHILDREN AND YOUTH: “YOU ARE THE YOUNG MISSIONARIES OF THE YOUNG CHURCH, YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN THIS LAND OF AMERICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD” Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On Saturday 29 November Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Pope John Paul II’s Special Envoy to CAM2, met children of the Missionary Childhood Society. He went to the town of Santa Caterina d ...