America

• 17 July 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - TOWARDS CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – YOUNG CHILEANS ATTEND MISSIONARY FORMATION SCHOOL Talagante (Fides Service) – For three consecutive years Melipilla diocese in Chile has organised a successful School in Missionary Formation for young people which intends to offer above all missionary, spiritual and h ...
• 16 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – A HOST OF INITIATIVES INVOLVING THE CHURCH AT ALL LEVELS AS THE GREAT EVENT DRAWS NEAR AND ENROLMENT CONTINUES Guatemala City (Fides Service ) – “As the American Mission Congress (CAM 2) draw near initiatives are multiplied and preparations enter final stages” Bishop Gerardo Flore Reyes, emeritus of Verapaz (Guatemala) tell ...
• 11 July 2003
  AMERICA/PANAMA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – “SPIRITUALITY OF MISSION, A CHALLENGE FOR OUR PARTICULAR CHURCHES”: PREPARATORY MEETING OF CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMISSION Panama (Fides Service – “At this final stage of preparation for the American Mission Congress (CAM 2), the theme of missionary spirituality is vital to give unity to the path we are travelling”: this was affirmed i ...
• 10 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – LIKE THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1,526 INDIGENOUS LAY MISSIONARIES ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL TO THEIR OWN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES Guatemala City (Fides Service/ANS) – Since Pentecost, every Sunday many churches in the indigenous Carcha and Chisec mission in northern Guatemala have been celebrating sending of missionaries ceremonies. This is one r ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE PRESENT SITUATION OF CRISIS THE CHURCH HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BUILDING A NEW SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL VALUES: INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP GUILLERMO JOSE GARLATTI, OF BAHIA BLANCA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Archbishop Guillermo Jose Garlatti, of Bahia Blanca, one of the 42 new Archbishops who received their Pallium from the hands of the Pope in Rome on June 29, told Fides Service about the r ...
• 3 July 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS (CAM 2) AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS, GUATEMALA CITY PREPARES TO WELCOME 300 DELEGATES OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD Guatemala City (Fides Service) – There are only 144 days to the inauguration of the 2nd all American Mission Congress “and on the journey towards this important missionary event the preparatory meetings are ever more ...
• 2 July 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - ARCHBISHOP OF MARINGA: THE PALLIUM STANDS FOR A CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN IDENTITY OF THE LOCAL CHURCH WHILE BUILDING COMMUNION WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH Vatican City (Fides Service) – “These meetings with the Pope over the past few days were truly precious moments, I was deeply touched by the love he showed to each of us” Archbishop Jao Braz de Aviz of Maringa in ...
• 2 July 2003
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - TOWARDS 2ND ALL AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) - FIRST ARCHDIOCESAN MEETING, 400 DIOCESAN DELEGATES “UNITED FOR MISSION” San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) – Promote, animate and increase missionary spirit so as to increase awareness of the evangelising mission of the Church and the duty to respond to mission “ad gentes”. These ...
• 30 June 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A CHIP TO SPEED UP RESEARCH ON SARS Rome (Fides Service) – To speed up research on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS the American National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease NIAID has made available a micro-array for rapid discernmen ...
• 27 June 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - UNITED NATIONS REPORT: AVAILABLE LESS THAN HALF THE FUNDS NECESSARY FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS New York (Fides Service) – Governments and centres of research all over the world have diminished funds for treating AIDS to give more to producing a vaccine, prevention and distribution of medicines for HIV people. Th ...
• 26 June 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FORMATION AT A DISTANCE FOR 11.500 CATECHISTS: SIXTH NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR CATECHISTS WILL FOCUS ON NEW EVANGELISATION AND CHRISTIAN INITIATION IN PRESENT DAY CONTEXT Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – From 27 to 30 June, Villavicencio in Colombia will host the sixth national congress for catechists. Catechists from 54 dioceses will attend the Congress organised by the General Direction of th ...
• 25 June 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 18TH MIGRANTS WEEK FOCUSES ON THE ELDERLY: MILLIONS OF MEN LEAVE HOME TO ESCAPE POVERTY Brasilia (Fides Service) – On the occasion of World Migrant Day 2003 (which Brazil marks on 22 June), in harmony with the annual Fraternity Campaign which this year adopted the theme “Fraternity and the Elderly”, t ...
• 24 June 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - RENEWING PASTORAL CARE WITH MISSIONARY PROJECT – MISSIOLOGY WEEKS PREPARE FOR CAM2 Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – “For the past ten years the archdiocese of Mexico has undertaken a process of pastoral renewal by means of a new a vigorous missionary project, the fruit of the 2nd archdiocesan Synod (1 ...
• 24 June 2003
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - NEW EVANGELISING IMPULSE FOR CHURCH IN PORTO RICO: 76 LAY MISSIONARIES SENT TO EVANGELISE IN NEW ARENAS San Juan de Puerto Rico (Fides Service ) – The Church in Porto Rico, faithful to the mission received by her Founder and in harmony with numerous appeals from the Pope, recently sent on mission ad gentes 76 lay Catholi ...
• 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 ...