America

• 20 June 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - DISABILITY MUST NOT BE SEEN AS A PUNISHMENT OR CURSE: ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE ADDRESSES UNO New York (Fides Service) – “The person with disabilities has every right to be a subject and an active agent in the everyday affairs of human existence. These persons are rich in humanity. Each has rights and duties ...
• 18 June 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CHURCH IN BRAZIL, YOUR LIFE IS MISSION: FIRST NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS Brasilia (Fides Service) – The Church in Brazil is preparing for its first National Mission Congress which will take place 17-20 July in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (in south east Brazil). At the Pontifical Catholic U ...
• 17 June 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - THE AMERICAN CONGRESS MISSIONARY (CAM 2) WILL TRIGGER A DETAILED MISSIONARY PROJECT FOR CENTRAL AMERICA Guatemala City (Fides Service) - One of the challenges which the Church in America will discuss during CAM “, the Second American Missionary Congress, is the elaboration of a specific Missionary Project for Central Am ...
• 12 June 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – REV. JOSE RAFAEL ROMERO LINARES, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (30 May 2003), National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela, R ...
• 11 June 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - MISSIONARY CELEBRATIONS, CONGRESSES, WEEKS, PILGRIMAGES: INTENSE PREPARATIONS FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS CAM 2, SOME COUNTRIES ASK TO SEND MORE DELEGATES Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “As the date of the 2nd American Missionary Congress - CAM 2 (25-30 November, in Guatemala City) involving the entire continent of America, approaches, in the six central American cou ...
• 9 June 2003
  AMERICA/GUYANA - DIALOGUE AMONG CULTURES AND RELIGIONS: JESUITS OPEN NEW INSTITUTE Georgetown (Fides Service) – In Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, the Jesuits Fathers have opened an Institute for Dialogue between Cultures and Religions. Jesuit Superior in Guyana Father Joe Chria explains: “commi ...
• 6 June 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - NATIONAL ROSARY CONGRESS: DISCOVERING THE ROSARY AS A METHOD OF PREACHING AND EMINENTLY CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER Cordoba (Fides Service) – In his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (n. 3) Pope John Paul II exhorts individuals and communities to strive, particularly in this Year of the Rosary, to re-discover the full sig ...
• 5 June 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - AT LEAST 10.000 YOUNG PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND NATIONAL MISSIONARY YOUTH CONGRESS: “YOUTH OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, DO NOT BE AFRAID TO CARRY THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD! Querétaro (Fides Service) – At least 10.000 young people from dioceses all over Mexico are expected to take part in the 8th national missionary youth congress (CONAJUM 2003) which will take place from 31 July to 3 Aug ...
• 3 June 2003
  AMERICA - WHILE THE WORLD’S ATTENTION IS RIVETED ON SARS THE “BREAK BONE” FEVER CONTINUES TO KILL THOUSANDS OF THE POOREST PEOPLE IN TROPICAL AND SEMI-TROPICAL COUNTRIES New York (Fides Service) – Missionaries living and working in various parts of the world often have to face situations of health emergency without even a minimum of preparation. To meet requests for information coming ...
• 3 June 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “TODAY MORE THAN EVER THE CHURCH MUST BE CLEAR ABOUT HER MISSIONARY DIMENSION”: FIRST NATIONAL MISSIONARY CONGRESS Chiclayo (Fides Service) – “Our world today represents as always, as great challenge for the mission of the Church. Christ’s message must be proclaimed to many of our brothers and sisters who have yet to hear it; t ...
• 28 May 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY SOME 100,000 EXPECTED TO TAKE PART IN 26TH ROSARIO-SAN LORENZO YOUTH PILGRIMAGE Rosario (Fides Service) – On June 1st there will be the 26th Rosario-San Lorenzo youth pilgrimage, dedicated this year, the year of the Rosary, to the words Jesus spoke to his disciple John, “Behold your Mother”, i ...
• 28 May 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “LET’S GLOBALISE SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS”: BISHOPS LAUNCH SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE CULTURE OF ACCEPTANCE AS A REQUIREMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE Lima (Fides Service) – According to reports by the General Direction of Migration and Naturalisation in Peru, up to July 2002, about 10% of the population had been forced to leave its land of origin in search of better ...
• 27 May 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BISHOPS REPORT AFTER VISIT: PEOPLE SUFFER BECAUSE OF A WAR THEY FEEL FOREIGN; THE CHURCH COMMITTED AT ALL LEVELS FOR AID AND RECONCILIATION Bellavista (Fides Service) – A delegation of European and American visited Colombia from 12 to 19 May, at the initiative of Misereor the aid organisation of the German Catholic Bishops under the auspices of the Pontifi ...
• 22 May 2003
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “THE CHALLENGE IS TO RE-LAUNCH EVANGELISATION IN ORDER TO REVIVE PEOPLE'S HOPE”: FINAL MESSAGE OF CELAM ASSEMBLY. ELECTION OF NEW DIRECTION COMPLETED Tuparenda (Agenzia Fides) – The 29th assembly of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences held in Tuparenda Ypacaraí (Paraguay), issued a message addressed to all the local Churches in Latin America and th ...
• 21 May 2003
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - COMMUNION AND SOLIDARIETY: THE CHURCH’S ANSWER TO GLOBALISATION IN CELAM’S GLOBAL PLAN 2003-2007 Tuparenda (Fides Service) – A global Plan 2003-2007, approved on 15 May by the 29th assembly of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences (CELAM), has as its title: “Towards a Church, house and school of c ...