America

• 6 October 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Card. Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez, special envoy of Pope Benedict XVI closes plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - After six years of intense activity the Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Venezuela comes to a close on Saturday 7 October with a special Mass presided by Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Es ...
• 5 October 2006
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - 50th anniversary of the Bishops’ Conference , 1st National Catholic Education Conferenc: “Catholic Education in a Globalised World ” Leon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay is celebrating its 50th anniversary with various initiatives including the 1st National Catholic Education Conference, 6 - 8 October at León Condou S ...
• 4 October 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Parish Renewal” is the theme of the 2nd Theological-Pastoral Week in preparation for the 5th General Conference of CELAM Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - As part of preparations for the 5th general conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM in May 2007 at Aparecida Brazil, and as a preparation for guidelines coming ...
• 4 October 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA -Bi-centenary celebrations in Salta continue with Archdiocesan Marian Congress Salta (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Salta, in Argentina has organised a Marian Congress 6-7 October to be held at Rosario de Lerma as part of celebrations for the bi-centenary of the local Church (see Fides 19/5/2 ...
• 2 October 2006
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Potosi diocese starts 3rd Eucharistic Congress to strengthen personal and community encounter with Jesus Christ and foster greater commitment to building a world of more brotherhood and solidarity Potosi (Agenzia Fides) - “Stay with us Lord” is the theme of the 3rd Diocesan Eucharistic Congress 1-8 October which opens after 9 months of intense preparation in the Bolivian diocese of Potosi. The main purpose of ...
• 2 October 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “We cannot remain silent, we must firmly and clearly reject abortion": pastoral letter from Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz for Family Day and Mother’s Day Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the month of October, during which Argentina celebrates Family Day and Mother’s Day, the Catholic Archbishop José María Arancedo of Santa Fe de la Vera Cr ...
• 29 September 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Mother, we need to live as brothers and sisters”: this year’s Youth pilgrimage to Our Lady of Luján will be marked by “pro-life gesture” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Mother we need to live as brothers and sisters” is the slogan of the 32nd Youth Pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan (60 km from the capital Buenos Aires) (30 September - 1 ...
• 28 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consolata missionary wins UNESCO education to peace award for “course in forgiveness and reconciliation” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian missionary of the Consolata (IMC) Father Leonel Narvaez Gomez received special mention at a ceremony in Paris for the presentation of the UNESCO Education to peace Award 2006. The awa ...
• 28 September 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Continental Pastoral Marian Meeting “discovering the inexhaustible riches of the missionary pastoral of Mary, first disciple and missionary of her Son and teacher of His disciples and missionaries” Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - “At this time of grace as we are preparing for the Conference at Aparecida, we felt the pastoral necessity to celebrate this Congress to discover the inexhaustible riches of the missionar ...
• 27 September 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops’ Conference backs nation wide rubella vaccination campaign Lima (Agenzia Fides) - A nation wide campaign in Peru to vaccinate the entire population against German measles, rubella, will start in October. In a meeting with the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
• 27 September 2006
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Catholics Bishops call for participation and transparency in electoral process, they also denounce new Health Code for attacking life and the family Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In view of general elections on 15 October the Bishops of Ecuador have issued a message in which they call the Electoral Commission to ensure “transparency in the process, indispensable to guara ...
• 26 September 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Drug addiction challenges our pastoral charity”: Bishops’ Message on scourge of drug abuse and urgent need to find solutions Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - “The problem of drug addiction calls for attention from society and from the Church and demands pastoral charity” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Chile Bisho ...
• 26 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Local Church calls on government to eliminate poverty and tackle worst ever humanitarian crisis Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Colombia has urged the government to give serious attention to the problem of widespread poverty and to tackle the worst humanitarian crisis the country has ever known. ...
• 23 September 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Charity source of Mission”: 2nd National Missionary Meeting for men and women religious Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Serving the Gospel can never be considered a solitary undertaking but rather a commitment for the entire community" Bishop Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo of the apostolic Vicariate of Tierradentro p ...
• 22 September 2006
  AMERICA - “This Seminar has been an experience of the catholicity and universality of the Church, an experience of communion around the Eucharist the centre of our meeting”: impressions Latin American bishops in Rome for CEP Study-Seminar Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “I believe this Seminar has been a wonderful opportunity for all concerned” Fides was told by Bishop José di Jesús Quintero Díaz, Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia, one of 98 bishops in R ...