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3 June 2006
AMERICA - World Environment Day: Christians on three continents call for help for most affected peoples
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - June 5 is World Environment Day and Christians on 3 continents are calling for the earth to be protected.
Climate change is a serious threat to the life and means of subsistence of the most vulner ...
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31 May 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - Valdivia lives Diocesan Year of Mission 2006 with enthusiasm, mission in work places offers a path of Christian initiation
Valdivia (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean diocese of Valdivia is living a special year, Diocesan Year of Mission 2006 Fides was informed by Ms Karin Retting secretary of the diocesan pastoral office. The mission has the slo ...
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31 May 2006
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Young people brave cold and discomfort for a Weekend Mission to bear witness to God’s Word and Love for all men and women
San José (Agenzia Fides) - Last weekend 70 young members of Youth Pastoral from various towns in the diocese of San José, visited 150 families in the area of Cañada Grande. The young people lived an authentic mission ...
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30 May 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - Preparation for 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM continues with a series of meetings for indigenous priests, religious and laity
Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM which will take place in May 2007 at Aparecida, Brazil, the Mexican Bishops’ Commission f ...
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30 May 2006
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Evangelising youth is one of the most important aspects of the Church’s missionary activity”: Bishops soon to issue pastoral letter on “Evangelisation of Youth”
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - “The evangelisation of youth is one of the most important aspects of the Church’s missionary activity, since it involves handing on to the new generations the legacy of faith” Bishop Odil ...
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30 May 2006
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic hospitals in New Jersey promote research on adult stem cells
New Jersey (Agenzia Fides) - Legislators in support of research with embryo stem cells and representatives of the local Catholic community have united to promote research with adult stem cells in the 15 Catholic hospital ...
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27 May 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - “With this initiative become evangelisers, announcers of the Gospel of charity in your environments”: Cardinal Rivera inaugurates 2006 Charity Campaign
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mexico’s 2006 Charity Campaign was inaugurated by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City on 23 May. The main goal of the campaign is to foster a spirit of charity by i ...
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27 May 2006
AMERICA/PERU - “With Jesus Missionary ...we want to be the light of the world”: thousands of children take part in Holy Childhood Day in Peru 27 and 28 May
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children all over Peru will be taking part this weekend 27 and 28 May in Holy Childhood Day. “With Jesus Missionary ...we want to be the light of the world” is this year’s theme ...
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24 May 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards CAM 3: helping Particular Churches in America assume a ‘state of mission’ and opt for new evangelisation and mission ad gentes
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations continue for the 3rd American Mission Congress CAM 3 scheduled for 11-16 August 2008 in Quito (Ecuador). The main aim of the Congress, as we see at http://www.cam3ecuador.org/index_O ...
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24 May 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - “Basic Ecclesial Communities, school for disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ”: Meeting for delegates of the Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean on the mission of Basic Ecclesial Communities
Quito (Fides Service) - A three day Meeting for delegates of the Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean which opens today in Quito Ecuador will focus on the mission of Basic Ecclesial Communities CEB. ...
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24 May 2006
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Leaving the 15th national Eucharistic Congress with a commitment in the heart to “bear witness that the Church lives of the Eucharist”
Florianopolis (Fides Service) - “Now that the 15th National Eucharistic Congress in Florianopolis from 18 to 21 May is over and people return to their homes with warm memories, will the event have consequences on the ...
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22 May 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We are disciples and missionaries of Jesus”: slogan of Holy Childhood day organised by PMS for month of May
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Pontifical Mission Societies in Colombia promote a Holy Childhood Day to foster greater missionary awareness among children and efforts to help less fortunate children by means o ...
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22 May 2006
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Making Sunday Holy, set a day aside for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, make communities more Eucharistic, act in all areas with the power of the Eucharist: of 15 National Eucharistic Congress resolutions
Florianopolis (Agenzia Fides) - “We come from of the Congress filled with missionary spirit to say to everyone Come and See!” we read in a final Letter addressed to Catholics in Brazil to confirm faith in the Euchari ...
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22 May 2006
AMERICA - Discuss and Study Catholic identity and mission in the world of Television: Latin American Conference on Catholic Television opens today
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Directors and producers of Catholic television programmes from more than 20 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting in Medellin, Colombia, for the Latin American Confer ...
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20 May 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - “Catechists: we announce the Living Christ”: Catechists Day because only the announcement of the Living Christ can meet the deepest longings of the human heart and mind
Santiago (Fides Service) - On Saturday 27 May Catholics in Chile will celebrate annual Catechists Day organised by the Chilean Bishops’ Commission for Catechesis. The Day is an opportunity to thank the Lord for callin ...
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