America

• 1 August 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – “BE JOYFUL WITNESSES AND ENTHUSIASTIC APOSTLES OF THE GOSPEL!”: CARDINAL SEPE ENCOURGAES MEXICAN YOUTH AT THE OPENING OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR MISSIONARY YOUTH Queretaro (Fides Service) - “Young people of the new millennium do not be afraid to carry the Gospel to the world”: This is the slogan of the 8th National Congress of Mexican Missionary Youth (8° CONAJUM) which ope ...
• 1 August 2003
  AMERICA/CANADA - DATABASE ON LINE FOR SARS: MANY GROUPS ARE TRYING TO REPRODUCE SARS PROTEIN IN LABORATORY TO WORK ON MEDICINES AND VACCINES Rome (Fides Service) – A new database on line of genetic information on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS could help to control SARS. A least this is the hope of Canadian scientists co-ordinating the programme ...
• 29 July 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - TRADITIONS ARE WHAT DISTINGUISH EACH HUMAN SOCIETY FROM ALL THE OTHERS, THEY ARE ESSENCE WHICH ENRICHES THE HUMAN SPECIES: SAYS KOFI ANNAN IN A BOOK NOT TO BE MISSED “TRADITIONS, VALUES AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION” BY DR KEVIN CAHILL Rome (Fides Service) – How do religious, cultural ands social systems and the values they support shape humanitarian action? What are the bases of caring societies? Are there universal values for human wellbeing? And h ...
• 29 July 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY A MARIAN CONGRESS ON MARY, STAR OF NEW EVANGELISATION Lima (Fides Service) - “Mary Star of the New Evangelisation is the theme of a Marian Congress organised by the Life and Spirituality Institute at St Augustine’s College in San Isidro district of Lima, the capital of ...
• 25 July 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - LAY CATHOLICS AND YOUTH AT THE CENTRE OF PLENARY COUNCIL OF LOCAL CHURCH OPENS TOMORROW Caracas (Fides Service) – From 26 to 31 July at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas the 4th session of the plenary council of the Church in Venezuela will bring together about three hundred people includin ...
• 24 July 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - REDEMPTORIST FATHERS LEAD SPECIAL PARISH MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR OF CERRO CORDILLERA DISTRICT TO MARK 100 YEARS OF MISSIONARY PRESENCE Valparaiso (Fides Service) – The Redemptorist missionaries first arrived in Cerro Cordigliera, on the outskirts of Valparaiso, in 1903. As part of centenary celebrations the Redemptorist Fathers of the Santiago provinc ...
• 24 July 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – SECOND REGIONAL MEETING OF MEDELLIN AND SANTA FE DE ANTIOQUIA CLOSES WITH THE SENDING OF TWO DIOCESAN PRIESTS ON MISSION TO MOZAMBIQUE Medellin (Fides Service) – On its path towards the American Mission Congress (CAM 2), from 10 to 12 July in Medellin the Church in Colombia held a 2nd regional missionary meeting with the motto “we are missionaries f ...
• 23 July 2003
  AMERICA/CANADA - “THE LEGACY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY CONTINUES TO GROW AND NOT ONLY AMONG YOUTH” - MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT OF CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY 2002 Ottawa (Fides Service) – One year ago, “Pope John Paul called youth of the world to gather in Toronto in July 2002 to experience a strong sense of faith, fraternity and commitment on the occasion of the 17th World Yo ...
• 18 July 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: CARD. SEPE URGES NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS TO INVOLVE A GREATER NUMBER OF PERSONS AND EFFORTS AT THE SERVICE OF MISSION AD GENTES Belo Horizonte (Fides Service) – In preparation for the 2nd all American Mission Congress in November, the Church in Brazil officially inaugurated yesterday 17 July in Belo Horizonte its 1st National Mission Congress p ...
• 17 July 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – CREATING GREATER MISSION AWARENESS IS ONE OF THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF PMS IN UNITED STATES New York (Fides Service) – The Church in the United States, which will take part in the American Mission Congress in November in Guatemala, is defining the composition of the delegation which will attend CAM 2, Father ...
• 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 ...