America
21 June 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Catholic Church denounces: violence and delinquency impede the political life of the community
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Mexico, in a statement from its Communications Department, Sistema Informativo de la Arquidiocesis de Mexico , denounces continual violence in the country which sometime ...
21 June 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Juan Manuel Santos new president of Colombia
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's former Minister of Defence won the second round of presidential elections held yesterday 20 June, with 69% of the votes compared to 27.5% of the rival candidate, ...
21 June 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - Convalescent in hospital priest stabbed during the celebration of Mass Calbuco
(Agenzia Fides) – A parish priest, stabbed during Mass on Friday 18 June and operated, is still in hospital convalescing. The priest was stabbed in the neck while distributing Holy Communion at the end of evening Mass ...
19 June 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church calls people to vote “ freely and responsibly ”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ruben Salazar Gomez, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Colombia, in a video message, a copy of which was sent to Fides, has called on Colombians to vote freely and with re ...
19 June 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Seminarians, "Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ”: First National Mission Congress
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – With the slogan "Seminarians, Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd ", Bolivia's 1st Mission Congress for Seminarians will be held at San José Seminary in the city of Co ...
19 June 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Continental Mission reaches remote parishes in the Cuzco Andes
Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) – Today the first meeting of the Deanery of Paruro will take place in the parish of San Martino de Tours in Ccapi, archdiocese Cuzco. Seven different parishes will be represented: Accha, Rondocan, ...
18 June 2010
AMERICA - “We must work for the poor”: Symposium of Christian businessmen in Latin America
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – “Challenges of business 200 years since the independence of Latin America and the Caribbean" has been the theme of the 10th Symposium CELAM – UNIAPAC (International Union of Christian ...
18 June 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Our mission with migrants: 3.3 million internally displaced persons: a situation demanding attention
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – On 24 June the Major Seminary of Bogota will host a national Forum “Assistance and solidarity, our mission with migrants”. In a statement sent to Fides, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of ...
17 June 2010
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Rigoberta Menchú and the Bishop of San Marcos call on President Colom to guarantee security for the people and respect for the environment
Guatemala City(Agenzia Fides) – Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, and Bishop Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop of San Marcos (Guatemala), have asked President Colom ...
17 June 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - “ Inculturated Catechesis”: ability to be, to live and to accompany the people to encounter Christ
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – “We reaffirm the importance of culture in the life of our peoples, encouraging incarnated pastoral care, which understands and uses symbolic language to make room for God in the life of ...
16 June 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Digital culture impact in Latin America: Inter-continental Meeting
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – From today until 19 June representatives of various institutions participating in a continental study on "The impact of digitall culture in Latin America " are meeting in Bogota, at the head of ...
16 June 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Pastoral Letter from the Bishop of Moron: “we must find specific forms of evangelisation suited to our reality ”
Moron (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Luis Guillermo Eichhorn of the diocese of Moron, considers the recent Diocesan Mission Congress a "grace from the Lord", and has connected it with the Diocesan Pastoral Plan, to encourag ...
15 June 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "No life can be taken for the sake of 'community justice' " warns the Bishop of Oruro
Oruro (Agenzia Fides) – “Events in Uncia are deplorable, such crimes must never be repeated, the lynching seen in various parts, mainly in rural areas and poor districts, must not be allowed to happen again”: these ...
15 June 2010
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Fighting poverty to eliminate child labour
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the recent annual recurrence of World Day Against Child Labour, Paraguay, like many other Latin American countries, tackled various issues connected with the elimination of ...
14 June 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico's prisons are full of innocent victims of the 'crime' of 'crimes' : poverty
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican city of Acapulco is hosting a National Meeting on Pastoral Care in Prisons which opens today at the city's new Cathedral dedicated to Christ the King. A report sent to Fides fr ...
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