America

• 26 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS WITH JOY AND PRAYER: “IT IS A GIFT FROM GOD THAT GUATEMALA CITY HAS BECOME THE CAPITAL OF THE CATHOLIC WORLDS, AND A CHALLENGE TO ALL” SAYS CARDINAL TORUNO WHILE AFRICA AND ASIA DREAM OF THEIR OWN MISSION CONGRESSES. Guatemala City (Fides Service) – With joy and prayers the 2nd American Mission Congress was solemnly inaugurated in the afternoon of November 25 at the Paul II Auditorium in Guatemala City. Some 3.000 delegates inclu ...
• 25 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CAM 2:AN AIR OF FESTIVITY IN GUATEMALA CITY WITH ONLY HOURS TO GO BEFORE OPENING OF CAM2: “THE WARMTH AND DEDICATION OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE IS THE MOST WELCOME IMPRESSION ” Guatemala (Fides Service) – “As soon as we arrived we felt the atmosphere of festivity. Along with delegations from all over the world, especially from all over America, we were welcomed by enthusiastic young mission ...
• 24 November 2003
  AMERICA/CANADA - BISHOP FRANÇOIS LAPIERRE OF SAINT-HYACINTHE: “MISSION HELPS US TO LOOK FURTHER TO SEE IN DAILY LIFE THE TRAGEDIES AND HOPES OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. MISSION IS A CALL NOT ONLY TO GO OUT OF OUR COUNTRY BUT TO GO OUT OF OURSELVES” Saint-Hyacinthe (Fides Service) – At the Second American Mission Congress in Guatemala City (25-30 November), the Church in Canada is represented by 150 delegates, many of them young people. “There is amazing interes ...
• 24 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TWO MILLION CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED, 1 MILLION ORPHANS, 12 MILLION MINORS HOMELESS, 200 ADULTS ASSASSINATED, 1 MILLION REFUGEES, 100,000 WIDOWS, 400 VILLAGES DISAPPEARED: SCHOOL FOR PEACE FOR 3,000 WAR CHILDREN Rome (Fides Service) – This is the balance in the past decade after 36 years of civil war. Children see their parents murdered, children subject to torture and sexual abuse. Children who still today have serious psych ...
• 24 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS TOMORROW: FIRST MAJOR MISSIONARY EVENT OF THIRD MILLENNIUM Guatemala City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow 25 November, the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM 2, will be officially inaugurated in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Pope John Paul II has sent as his Special Envoy, Cardinal Cre ...
• 22 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - NO END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CHURCH: KIDNAPPED PRIEST FOUND DEAD; SEVEN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES HELD HOSTAGE AND ROBBED. San Vicente del Caguan (Fides Service) – Safely back at their mission at last, seven missionaries of St John Eudes in southern Colombia lived a frightening experience at the hands of kidnappers. For several hours they ...
• 21 November 2003
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: 75 US MEMBERS REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INCLUDING ALASKA New York (Fides Service) – The delegation of the Church in the United States to the second American Mission Congress in Guatemala, is composed of 75 members. Father John Kozar, National Director of the Pontifical Missi ...
• 21 November 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF GOSPEL VALUES UNDERMINES FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL HARMONY” SAY MEXICAN BISHOPS Mexico City (Fides Service) – At the end of its plenary assembly 10 to 14 November, the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico issued a message “Unbind him ad let him free” (inspired by the figure of Lazarus), in which t ...
• 20 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGENTS OF EVANGELISATION: “MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD IS A CONCRETE REALITY IN LATIN AMERICA, IT ANIMATES PARISHES, MOVEMENTS, SCHOOLS” SAYS SISTER MARIA TERESA CRESCINI ON THE EVE OF CAM2 Vatican City (Fides Service) – “In America Latina Missionary Childhood helps adults realise children’s amazing capacity for commitment giving rise to a truly surprising movement of prayer and material aid ”. Sist ...
• 20 November 2003
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - LITTLENESS POVERTY’, MARTYRDOM ARE “RICHES” OF MISSION AD GENTES IN LATIN AMERICA: COMMENT FOR FIDES BY CARD. OSCAR RODRIGUEZ MARADIAGA, SPEAKER AT CAM2 Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) – The document of convocation to 2nd American Mission Congress (CAM 2), 25 to 30 November in Guatemala City (Guatemala), underlines that mission in Latin America is characterised by three ...
• 19 November 2003
  AMERICA/COSTARICA - BISHOP GIRARDI, SPEAKER AT AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS: “BEING A MISSIONARY TODAY; A TIME OF VAST POSSIBILITIES AND GREAT CHALLENGES FOR MISSIONARY ACTIVITY WITH NEW FORUMS TO BE EVANGELISED” Tilaran (Fides Service) – CAM 2, the 2nd American Mission Congress which will be held next week 25 to 30 November in Guatemala City, is the first major missionary event in the third millennium. It will be an opportunit ...
• 19 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 - “LONG AND FRUITFUL PREPARATION FILLS US WITH HOPE THAT IT WILL FOSTER NEW EAVNGELISING IMPULSE SAY BISHOPS OF GUATEMALTA Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Catholic Bishops of Guatemala, meeting on November 18, issued a statement on the experience of the Year of the Rosary, celebrations for the 25th years of Pontificate of Pope John P ...
• 18 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – CHURCH IN COLOMBIA COMPLETES LONG JOURNEY OF PREPARATION Bogota (Fides Service) – “The Church in Colombia, with her characteristic missionary zeal, prepared with joy and confidence to face the challenges of evangelisation in this new millennium ” Reverend Luis Castano Ca ...
• 17 November 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - BISHOPS CLOSE 86TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY: CONCERN ABOUT PROPOSED BILL TO LEGALISE ABORTION Rome (Fides Service) – At the end of their 86th plenary assembly the Catholic Bishops of Argentina voiced deep concern for a proposed bill to legalise abortion. The Bishops made an explicit request for “laws which pr ...
• 17 November 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 - “CONGRESS DELEGATES PROMISE TO BE POINTS OF INFORMATION AND FORMATION FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE DIOCESES” Santiago (Fides Service) – “Through our publications “Chile Misionero” and “Pablito Misionero” read in parishes, formation centres, lay groups, families and among Missionary Childhood members, we have diffuse ...