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11 October 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “We rely on solidarity and prayers that the God of Life may give strength and hope to families who have lost loved ones, homes and harvests”: Catholic Bishops of Guatemala call for help for flood victims
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “With our hearts filled with grief we communicate the anguish, sadness, sufferings of this country for many years: civil war, inhuman violence, chronic poverty, hunger, unemployment, la ...
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11 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - “Promoting peace, the community of peoples and the common good”: a theme of the 8th Social Week focused on social principles of “Gaudium et spes”
Lima (Fides Service) - In the framework of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of “Gaudium et spes” by Vatican II, the Catholic Bishops of Peru (CEP) will focus the 8th national Social Week 18 ...
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10 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Towards Arequipa Diocesan Eucharistic Congress: 150 Eucharist Week Animators prepare with reflection on apostolic Letter “Dies Domini”
Arequipa (Fides Service) - Preparations continue with enthusiasm for a Diocesan Eucharistic Congress organised by the archdiocese of Arequipa on the theme “Eucharist, food for new life”, 13 - 20 November. The organis ...
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10 October 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The size of tragedy cannot be calculated: thousands are homeless after hurricane Stan swept the country. 1.400 inhabitants of Panabaj village buried alive. Cardinal Quezada Toruño appeals for “Solidarity without frontiers”
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Guatemala, the central American country which hosted CAM 2, the second American Mission Congress in 2003 and which for years has struggled to eliminate violence, now faces the consequence ...
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7 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Over 6,000 lay people involved in Great Mission 2005 in diocese of Chiclayo carry the Good News to families door to door
Chiclayo (Fides Service) - Over 6,000 lay Catholics are carrying the Good News of Salvation to families door to door in the first stage of a Great Mission in the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo which comprises 4 provinces L ...
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7 October 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The role of the laity in the Church, society and politics: 3,000 people from all over the country gather in the capital for Laity Congress 2005
Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - “Towards Argentina of the Bi-Centenary” is the title of a Laity Congress organised by the Lay Department and the Commission for the Laity and Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ C ...
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7 October 2005
AMERICA/MEXICO - “The Church in Mexico is encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI not only to work to alleviate suffering but also to eliminate the causes”: Bishops tell people on return from ad limina visit to Rome
Mexico City (Fides Service) - On October 6 the Bishops of Mexico issued a brief statement to inform the people of their recent ad limina visit to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The Bishops of this very populous Catholic coun ...
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6 October 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The human person is worth more than any human achievements and cannot be manipulated or replaced with any other good”: Bishops of Cordova region denounce present day mentality which fails to recognise the value of human life
Cordova (Fides Service) - “Life is worth living. Human life is sacred” is the title of a Pastoral letter issued by Bishops of the Corodova region of Argentina, on 29 September 2005, addressed to all men and women wi ...
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6 October 2005
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Eucharistic Meeting with 2,500 children on 22 October to close national itinerary of Days of Adoration promoted by local Holy Childhood Society all over the country for the Year of the Eucharist
Caracas (Fides Service) - In this Year of the Eucharist and to commemorate the day when Venezuela was solemnly consecrated to the Blessed Sacrament on 2 July 1899, in January this year the Pontifical Mission Societies in ...
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5 October 2005
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The elderly are “Guardians of the collective memory, conservers of inter-generational relationships and transmitters of authentic values”: Archbishop Migliore Permanent Holy See Observer addresses Second UN World meeting on Ageing
New York (Fides Service) - On October 4 in New York addressing the Second UN World Assembly on Ageing Archbishop Celestino Migliore Apostolic Nuncio Permanent Observer of the Holy See reiterated the Holy See’s descrip ...
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5 October 2005
AMERICA/URUGUAY - “One bread, one body, one family”: at the close of the Year of the Eucharist Montevideo celebrates “Family Week”
Montevideo (Fides Service) - In the context of the Year of the Eucharist, the archdiocese of Montevideo has chosen for its annual Family Week in the first week of October the motto “One Bread, one Body one Family”, ...
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5 October 2005
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “Democracy, politics and honesty”: moral guidelines from Bishops’ Conference to make the electoral process “ respond to the deep longing for peace, justice and solidarity”
San José (Fides Service) - ‘Democracy, politics and honesty’ is the title of a pastoral statement issued on 3 October by the Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica in view of the start of the electoral campaign leading ...
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4 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Church in Peru strives to promote devotion and adoration of the sacrament of the Eucharist : Eucharistic Congress in Huánuco, Eucharistic Youth Day in Callao, in Lima a series of conferences and a festival of liturgical hymns
Perú (Agenzia Fides) - In the Year of the Eucharist the Church in Peru has organised various initiatives to foster deeper devotion and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. From 6 to 9 October at the auditorium of Immacul ...
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3 October 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Rediscovering a sense of “being Church” though deeper understanding of the Eucharistic Mystery, diocese of Divinópolis prepares for 1st Diocesan Eucharistic Congress
Divinópolis (Fides Service) - In the context of the Year of the Eucharist the diocese of Divinópolis, Brazil is holding its first diocesan Eucharistic Congress 19 to 23 October on the theme “Eucharist: source of ecc ...
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3 October 2005
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Towards 5th General CELAM Conference: “This initial preparation is a first step in the process of revitalisation and conversion, fraternal communion and vigorous missionary reawakening” said Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa
Bogota (Fides Service) -On 28 September in view of its 5th General Conference scheduled for 2007 CELAM, the Council Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean, presented a Preparatory Document with the tit ...
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