America

• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Statement from Bishops’ Conference on the death of Conferenc under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela issued a statement with regard to the death of the Conference under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, last seen on Friday 21 April and foun ...
• 25 April 2006
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Building a frontier of communion and peace as a place of encounter rather than division: Bishops of Colombia and Ecuador Villagarzón (Fides Service) - “We confirm our commitment to finding solutions to complex situations in border areas between Colombia and Ecuador” say the Bishops of frontier zone dioceses of Colombia and Ecuador in ...
• 24 April 2006
  AMERICA - Pope Benedict XVI convokes 5th CELAM Conference in Brazil 13 - 31 May 2007 Vatican City (Fides Service) -"The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, taking into consideration the wish expressed by CELAM and for the good of the Church in the countries of Latin America has formally convoked for 13 to 31 ...
• 20 April 2006
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Catechesis, as a privileged means of handing on the faith, concerns everyone”: Bishop of Merlo-Moreno issues pastoral letter in preparation for 1st Diocesan Meeting on Catechesis Merlo-Moreno (Fides Service) - Bishop Fernando María Bargalló of Merlo Moreno diocese in Argentina issued a pastoral letter in view of the 1st Diocesan Meeting on Catechesis for which the diocese has prepared over the ...
• 6 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Prayer Campaign for Mexico and Latin America confident that “prayer is the best way to find solutions to serious threats facing society Mexico City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 2 April with a Mass in Mexico City cathedral Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carreras, archbishop primate of Mexico, launched a prayer campaign for Mexico and all Latin America organised ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Assessing preparations for CAM 3, COMLA 5 and study of new PMS statutes focus of Meeting for PMS National Directors of America Mexico City (Fides Service) - From 21 to 24 March the 2nd meeting for National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in America was held in Mexico City. The participants were 31 delegates from the PMS national ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Pontifical Mission Societies organise “Easter with Young People”: an alternative way of living Holy Week and growing in personal mission responsibility awareness Lima (Fides) - As part of on-going efforts to spread a spirit of mission among young people the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru through its missionary youth movement ‘Jóvenes sin Fronteras’, has organised the 2 ...
• 5 April 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Religious life was born in the Church as a prophetic reminder that our home is not the earth, we are on a pilgrimage towards a new earth and new heavens": Final message of national meeting of conference of major superiors Santiago (Fides Service) - A final message issued at the end of the 37th National Meeting of the Conference of Major Superiors of Chile CONFERRE said the present situation represents a challenge for the religious life. A ...
• 4 April 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Ayacucho archdiocese launches “Great Mission” in view of Jubilee year 2009 to mark 400 years of foundation Ayacucho (Fides Service) - To prepare to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Ayacucho ecclesastical circumscription (20 July 1609) with a Jubilee year in 2009 the archdiocese of Ayacucho has called a “ ...
• 4 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In Holy Week two thousand young people will take part in missions of evangelisation and human promotion Yucatan (Fides Service) - About 2,000 young people members of 130 groups of apostolate are preparing for a mission of evangelisation and human promotion in villages in the Mexican state of Yucatan, known as “Diocesan H ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - For the first time S. Egidio Community’s annual International Meeting of People and Religions will be held in the United States 26 and 27 April in Washington Rome (Fides Service) - In October 1986 Pope John Paul II convoked in Assisi a World Day of Prayer for Peace, an unprecedented historic event which saw representatives of the world’s great religions gathered around the ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - Prayer vigils and masses all over the country to celebrate the legacy of John Paul II ; new edition of “He stays with us” book on the Pope’s visit to Chile in 1987 Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - Catholics all over Chile will remember Pope John Paul II with prayer vigils and masses on the first anniversary of his passing to the Home of the Father. On Sunday 2 April Cardinal Fra ...
• 1 April 2006
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexican Bishops statement a year from the death of Pope John Paul II: “His greatness was the fruit of his profound unity with Christ”: prayers and masses at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City (Fides Service) - “We are filled with the treasure of grace of John Paul II who from his very first visit to our country triggered a process of pastoral dynamism which has fortified us enormously” the Bi ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/PERU - Solemn Mass in Lima and in dioceses all over Peru on 1st anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II Lima (Fides Service) - Catholics in the Peruvian capital have been invited to take part a special Mass of thanksgiving for the life of Pope John Paul II in Lima cathedral on Sunday 2 April at 11 am in memory of the ‘pi ...
• 31 March 2006
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Profound sadness for the murder of Italian missionary Mgr. Bruno Baldacci Vitória da Conquista (Fides Service) - The lifeless body of Bruno Baldacci, an Italian priest from the diocese of Las Spezia, was found on 30 March in the priest’s room at the parish of Nossa Senhora das Candeias of w ...