America
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25 March 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nationwide celebration of the Day of the Unborn Child: celebrations, demonstrations, sports events, music, and art
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – All of Argentina has united in celebrating the Day of the Unborn Child today, March 25. The various communities, movements, and institutions have already been celebrating events since thi ...
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24 March 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - PMS in Argentina celebrates the Day for Prayer and Fasting for Missionary Martyrs for the first time
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time ever, this year the Pontifical Mission Societies will join in participating in the important initiative promoted by the PMS Youth Movement in Italy: the Day of Prayer a ...
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24 March 2009
AMERICA/PERU - Message for the Day of the Unborn Child: “Life is always an inestimable gift and every time a new life comes into the world we can perceive the creative power of God.”
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Committee for the Family, of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference has issued a statement, in reference to the celebration of the Day of the Unborn Child, asking all Peruvians to defend a ...
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24 March 2009
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Activities for the Day of the Unborn Child, including letters to the President, blessing for pregnant mothers, pro-life marches
Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Pro-Life Association of Ecuador, in coordination with the Family Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Quito, has invited all the faithful to take part in various pro-life activities as a prepara ...
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23 March 2009
AMERICA- March 25: “National Day for the Unborn Child” in all Latin America, an international campaign for a culture of life
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On March 25, the “National Day for the Unborn Child” will be celebrated in many countries. In Latin America, the practice is becoming more common in response to the attack being made on the u ...
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23 March 2009
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Archbishop Hugo Barrantes reestablishes Permanent Diaconate in the Archdiocese of San Jose
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña of San Jose (Costa Rica) has issued a decree whereby the Permanent Diaconate is reestablished in the Archdiocese of San Jose.
The Archbishop mentions in the de ...
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23 March 2009
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Bishops' Conference asks new president to seek unification of the country in response to the global financial crisis
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador has asked the newly elected President of the country, Mauricio Funes, that the newly formed governing body (to take effect June 1) may be one “of unit ...
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21 March 2009
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Spanish priest shot to death, after 34 years of working with street children
Recife (Agenzia Fides) – Police sources have informed that 64 year-old Father Ramiro Ludeña, a native of Toledo (Spain) was killed yesterday, March 20, in Recife, in northeastern Brazil where he had been working 34 ye ...
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20 March 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Week for Life and the Family to conclude with large March for Life on March 25
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – This past March 16 marked the initiation of the Week for Life and the Family with an exposition entitled “Maria Gravida” and a conference on “The Goodness of Marriage,” which was given ...
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20 March 2009
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We are asking for justice and we offer Christian forgiveness.” - Statement from the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Carreño following the murder of two religious
Puerto Carreño (Agenzia Fides) – “Those of us who perform evangelizational services in this Vicariate feel our hearts broken by this cruel act of murder,” says the statement issued by Redemptorist Missionary Franc ...
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18 March 2009
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' Conference denounces with profound grief the murder of two religious, an act that “goes against all the desires for reconciliation and peace that the Church has been preaching”
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – In a statement of profound grief, the Bishops' Conference of Colombia denounced the murder of two members of the Redemptorist Order: Gabriel Fernando Montoya Tamayo (40 years) y Jesús Ariel J ...
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18 March 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Oran denounces serious health crisis in the wake of the landslide, dengue epidemic is feared
Oran (Agenzia Fides) – The Oran Bishop's Office has issued a statement on the “grave health situation” being experienced recently and urges all the faithful, “as the diocesan Church,” to “work and fight toget ...
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17 March 2009
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Human Life International presents the “Cardinal Von Galen” Award to the President of the Bishops' Conference for defending human rights and life
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - “With great joy we received the news of the 'Cardinal Von Galen' Award to be presented to Archbishop Antonio Arregui of Guayaquil, President of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference, for his untiri ...
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17 March 2009
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National Assembly of PMS Diocesan Directors concludes: “May God grant us the missionary zeal to transmit the joy and enthusiasm of knowing Jesus to others
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – After four days of prayer and hard work, the National Assembly of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) Diocesan Directors of Argentina has finally come to a close, with a Mass held in the c ...
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17 March 2009
AMERICA/CANADA - Flying to Montreal - A suitcase tied with string (correspondence from Luca De Mata - 16)
Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - After spending time in Belgium, I am on my way to Canada. In my investigation into immigration or better, into the movement of peoples from one continent to another, I am confronted with a phe ...
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