America

• 4 September 2008
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “On the road to peace: Life with Dignity, Development, and Freedom” is the theme for Peace Week 2008, beginning this Sunday Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, September 7 marks the beginning of Peace Week 2008. The theme of this national event is “On the road to peace: Life with Dignity, Development, and Freedom” and it is scheduled to ...
• 4 September 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Message for National Immigrant Day: “In response to this situation of unjust detentions, death, massive deportations, violations of human rights, growing poverty...remaining indifferent makes us accomplices.” Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) – “Mother earth, life for the nations” is the title of a Message written by Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of San Marcos, President of the Pastoral Department for Migrants in the Guatemalan Bisho ...
• 3 September 2008
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops ask the new government to keep in mind the innate values of the human person, especially respect for life from conception until natural death Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Just days before the swearing-in of President Fernando Lugo, the Bishops of Paraguay sent a message to the new government, reminding them of the non-negotiable points in political life, which ...
• 3 September 2008
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “The family is a treasure. We have to protect it!” the Archbishop of San Jose tells the 100,000 participants in the March for the Family San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – At least 100,000 people participated in the March for the Family held on August 31, 2008 in the Archdiocese of San Jose (Costa Rica), where marchers gathered at 8:30am to begin making their w ...
• 2 September 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops’ response to the Supreme Court ruling on abortion: “This decision may declare a criminal action legal, but it will never make an intrinsically evil action morally just.” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican Bishops have publicly expressed their lament for the Mexican Supreme Court’s decision to approve the law that decriminalizes abortion. The Bishops affirm that “human life i ...
• 2 September 2008
  AMERICA/PERU - “I tell you: the Mission is now”: Peru launches the Great Continental Mission Lima (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, August 30, the Great Continental Mission was launched in Peru, with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru, and concelebrated by all ...
• 1 September 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Launching of the Great Continental Mission at the close of CAM 3: “The Spirit is the one who leads us to unite ourselves with Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania in sharing our faith.” The “Message to Humanity, the Family of God.” Quito (Agenzia Fides) – With the motto, “America with Christ listens, learns, and announces,” the 3rd American Missionary Congress (CAM 3) was celebrated in the city of Quito (Ecuador) August 15-17, 2008. According ...
• 1 September 2008
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Final Declaration from CAM 3: “Jesus sends us out to all the ends of the earth to be witnesses to all that we have heard, learned, and announced.” Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Missionaries from all over the world issued a final document at the close of the Third Missionary Congress (CAM 3) in which they declared their willingness to announce the Gospel, build a world ...
• 1 September 2008
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops prepare to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the presence of the “Virgen de la Caridad”: “symbol of our homeland, what unites us to our families, our people, and above all, to the Mother of Christ.” Havana (Agenzia Fides) – “We ask that you all join in celebrating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the “Virgen de la Caridad” in the year 1612. We have sent out this invitation to all Cubans, because she ...
• 1 August 2008
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate: support for deaf Catholics Hayward (Agenzia Fides) – The first religious community to work directly in an apostolate for the deaf began in the United States on August 27, 2006. The founder is Father Thomas Coughlin, who has been working for thir ...
• 1 August 2008
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Latin American Conference on human trafficking for training pastoral workers in prevention and victim assistance Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – August 5-8, 2008, Panama City will be hosting a Latin American Conference on human trafficking, sponsored by the Human Mobility Section of the Latin American Bishops’ Conference (CELAM). ...
• 1 August 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Church’s contribution to the draft bill on mandatory Sunday rest: “A law that guarantees Sunday rest will be an effective contribution in building family life.” Valparaiso (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Chilean Bishops’ Conference (CECh), Fr. Eugenio Diaz, and Fr. Rodrigo Rupper, Vicar of Social-Pastoral and Workers Ministry in San ...
• 31 July 2008
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Church’s firm commitment to immigrants: “The Church should maintain a critical perspective towards any ideology that is not rooted in the intrinsic value of the human person.” Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Guatemala is strongly committed to the migration situation, says a document released by the Bishops’ Conference describing the dramatic situation in the country ...
• 31 July 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - Solidarity Month begins: “Listening is loving and this is how we build a more fraternal society.” Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – With slogans such as “Listening works wonders.”; “Listen to others as you would have them listen to you”; “Listen with your heart,” Solidarity Month began in Chile on Jul ...
• 30 July 2008
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Formation meeting for the mission ad gentes and Argentinean missionary meeting organized by the Pontifical Missionary Societies Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – On July 26-27, two encounters took place side-by-side at the Pontifical Missionary Societies (PMS) of Argentina headquarters: a formation meeting for the mission ad gentes and a meeting f ...