America

• 13 December 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Religious leaders say education must include transcendent values for authentic integral development of the human person Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the main religious confessions in Argentina met with the parliamentary Education Commission to defend articles which they consider indispensable and insist that ‘transc ...
• 12 December 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - Debate on Redefining Marriage not Over: For Catholics, marriage is an issue intimately related to human nature which has been created male and female. Catholic teaching on this remains consistent and constant: marriage is the exclusive union of one man and one woman. Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Canada, together with the members of the majority of faith communities and with many Canadians who have no particular religious affiliation, have voiced disappointment th ...
• 12 December 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops thank German Catholics for dedicating Advent Campaign to Mexico and the difficulties of emigrants Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico sent a message to the people of Germany thanking them for dedicating this year’s Adveniat national Advent Campaign to Mexico and in particular to the issue of emigrat ...
• 11 December 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops call two national days of prayer for peace and national unity 13 and 17 December Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - In a message addressed to the People of God in Bolivia Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bolivia, made a powerful call f ...
• 7 December 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Nothing can justify an intervention which causes the death and elimination of a human being”: Institute of Bio-Ethics statement on proposed Bill on free distribution of ‘emergency contraceptive pill’ Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - As Argentina’s Parliament discusses a proposed Bill to make compulsory the “free distribution of the ‘emergency contraceptive pill’” the Institute of Bio-Ethics of the Faculty of ...
• 4 December 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Oaxaca conflict: Catholic Bishops of the Southern Pacific Region call on conflicting parties to listen with humility, dialogue intelligently, discern according to the Gospel and reject violent methods” Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Oaxaca and Chiapas, gathered with priests, religious and laity of the southern pacific region of Mexico to discus the life of the Church and the work of the inculturation ...
• 27 November 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - “Life is a gift of God, to be defended and protected always and everywhere especially from injustice ”: Bishops call on society to protect life Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Following a sentence from the Constitutional Court with regard to the legalisation and commercialisation of the ‘day after pill’ or ‘emergency oral contraception’ the Catholic Bishops of P ...
• 23 November 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Parliament categorically rejects Bill to depenalise abortion. More than 60 MPs vow to respect human life from conception to natural death Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - With a vast majority the Chilean Parliament has declared inadmissible a proposed Bill to depenalise abortion in the country. The Bill drew 'no' votes from 61 MPs, (almost 75 per cent of the Hou ...
• 22 November 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Building stronger ties between north and south America: Lima diocese and Canadian Pembroke diocese unite in programme of assistance for children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 47 Catholics from the diocese of Pembroke in Canada accompanied by the Bishop Richard Smith, travelled to Lima (Peru) to sign a cooperation agreement on various programmes of assist ...
• 16 November 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “More than material walls we are concerned about walls of intransigence, intolerance and lack of effective negotiations between the governments of the countries’ involved”: Bishops issue statement and elect new Bishops’ Conference presidency Cuautitlán Izcalli (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Mexico have expressed deep concern for the phenomenon of migration. In a statement issued 15 November the Bishops said “We realise governments have a right ...
• 13 November 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops say frank and honest dialogue and a spirit of reconciliation is needed to overcome present fragmentation. They also say new education law must cater for transcendent dimension of the human person and respect parent’s right to decide how children are educated Pilar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Argentina have called for “frank dialogue involving all society in order to end excessive present fragmentation”. In a statement “Common Good and Dialogue", issued b ...
• 13 November 2006
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops’ statement on emigration, municipal elections and the nation’s new Constitution Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Paraguay at the end of their 177th plenary assembly in Asunción, issued a statement in which they analyse some of the country’s principal problems in order "to expre ...
• 10 November 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Disciples and Missionaries Evangelisation Campaign 2006 opens on Sunday 26 November at the Shrine of Aparecida Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual Evangelisation Campaign 2006 will start on 26 November Feast of Christ the King, and close on the third Sunday of Advent 17 December with a nation-wide special collection. In line wi ...
• 10 November 2006
  AMERICA/CANADA - “Changing the definition of marriage involves a repudiation of millennia of history and experience”: Declaration on Marriage signed by 40 religious leaders of different faiths Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - About 40 religious leaders of different faiths signed a Declaration on Marriage to be presented to Parliament and society in general in the present national debate on the subject. “We, each fro ...
• 10 November 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops oppose new law to recognise same sex unions: “when the value of the family is undermined by social and economic pressure, the Church reacts and reaffirms that the family formed of the union of a man and a woman is necessary for the private good of the person and for the common good of every society, nation and state” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Mexico have said that a proposed bill on Societies of Co-existence "claims to legalise relations of societies of co-existence and in doing so intends to ...