America
17 February 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - From Argentina to South Africa: evangelization is the daily priority for the Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma
Ingwavuma (Agenzia Fides) – He is a young bishop of the Consolata Missionaries. Bishop Gerardo José Luis Ponce de Leon, age 48, was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in November 2008 as the Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma, ...
17 February 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Consolata Missionaries celebrate first anniversary of arrival in Mexico
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Consolata Missionaries have been in Mexico for a year now. Precisely in the same week as the feast of Blessed Joseph Allamano, founder of the Consolata Missionaries, who died February 16, 192 ...
16 February 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - “So That in Christ, Our Peace, Mexico May Have a Decent Life”: Bishops' document against violence
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops' Conference (CEM) published a pastoral exhortation on February 15, entitled: "So That in Christ, Our Peace, Mexico May Have a Decent Life," as a "contribution from the ...
16 February 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Regional Forum: “National Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia”
Monteria (Agenzia Fides) – Today, February 16, in the city of Monteria, in northern Colombia, the Regional Forum "National Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia" is being held. This event was convened by t ...
15 February 2010
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Annual Assembly for coordinating missionary activity in the country
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ecuador, members of the National Missionary Center (Cemin) of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, and representatives of major religious ...
15 February 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Australian youth on the missions in Peru
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young Australians of the Christian Life Movement (MVC) have crossed the Pacific to arrive in Peru, where they have been carrying out an intense work of solidarity and evangelization th ...
13 February 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - All baptized should become missionary disciples!
Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) – A call to recognize and accept Jesus in our lives and to take responsibility for evangelizing: this is how Fr. Alejandro Castillo, Vicar General of the Diocese of Copiapo, summed up the signif ...
13 February 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 2nd National Meeting for Youth Missionary Coordinators
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – From February 12 to 15, the National Headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), in Brasilia, will host the 2nd National Meeting of the General Coordinators of the Youth Missionar ...
13 February 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' Message for Elections 2010: a complex year filled with challenges
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Colombia has issued a document on the forthcoming presidential elections to be held in May 2010, just two hundred years since Colombia's independence. The document, a ...
12 February 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of hope one month after the earthquake: Apostolic Nuncio ordains two Camillian deacons
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – One month after the earthquake that struck Haiti, especially in its capital city of Port-au-Prince, there is yet another sign of hope for the local community and for the Church, which l ...
10 February 2010
AMERICA - Missionary Union of the Sick, a service and a goal since 1928: suffering for the Missions
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – For many years, the Sunday of Pentecost, was celebrated in several countries as the "Day of the Sick Mission," organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies. In 1985, the Spanish Church e ...
10 February 2010
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops seek pastoral dialogue with gangs to stop violence in the country
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – With the support of the national government, the Catholic bishops of Colombia have established bridges of communication with so-called emerging gangs that are present in different regions of Co ...
10 February 2010
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - New President of Costa Rica, a committed Catholic, among many other women with important roles in Latin America
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – "Laura Chinchilla Miranda has not only become the first woman to be elected President of Costa Rica, but is also a committed Catholic. The figure of Chinchilla joins other women in America, s ...
9 February 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Crowning of Mary as “Queen of the Missions” at yearly PMS Diocesan Directors' Assembly
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On February 23, the Parish of St. Mary of Bethany in Buenos Aires will host the solemn coronation of Mary as “Queen of the Missions,” coinciding with the celebration of the opening Ma ...
9 February 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Missionary Challenge of the Secular Institutes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – From February 3 to 7, the Peruvian capital city hosted the 10th Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Secular Institutes, on "The Missionary Challenge of the Secular Institutes in Latin Americ ...
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