America

• 10 January 2006
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Here I am Lord for a holy Chile”: over two thousand students bear witness to the faith all over the country Santiago (Fides Service) - Some 2,084 students are taking part in a month long annual National Mission initiative, the third in the series. The mission lasts the whole month of January and is more intense from 2 to 12. T ...
• 9 January 2006
  AMERICA/CUBA - “Missionary Christmas” to close Missionary Year 2005: holy pictures of Infant Jesus bring tears to many an eye in Cuban families Havana (Fides Service) - “Missionary Christmas celebrated in all 11 Catholic dioceses in Cuba as a conclusion to the Missionary Year was a special blessing for many of our local families” says National Director of th ...
• 22 December 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Priests for New Evangelisation” is the theme of the 11th Course of Ongoing Formation for Clergy to be held 16 January - 3 February 2006 in Lima Lima (Fides Service) -The 11th course of ongoing formation for clergy to be held 16 January - 3 February 2006 at Villa Marista, Santa Eulalia in Lima. The aim of course of which the theme is “Priests for New Evangeli ...
• 22 December 2005
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Christmas is the irruption of something "new" which we can neither buy nor manipulate nor adapt to meet our own will or whim” says President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Uruguay San José y Flores (Fides Service) - Bishop Pablo Galimberti, Bishop of San José di Maggio and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Uruguay (CEU), recently told Radio Maria Uruguay that “Christmas is th ...
• 21 December 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - To highlight the real meaning of Christmas the Church in Arequipa organises reflection on various themes, community prayers and Nativity Scenes exhibition Arequipa (Fides Service) - The Peruvian diocese of Arequipa has organised a series of cultural and religious events to help people rediscover the authentic meaning of Christmas. Hundreds of people take part in the daily ...
• 21 December 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “An anti conception and anti birth mentality deriving from a mentality of abortion has produced a plot against life which strikes at the development and growth of our young people, marriage and the family”: conclusion of Seminar on Bio-ethics Cuernavaca (Fides Service) - “At this moment the people of this Continent feel the need to hear the voices of the bishops who confirm the value and inviolability of life. If at the end of the last century the Church co ...
• 20 December 2005
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Pontifical Mission Societies distribute 350,000 pictures of the Infant Jesus to foster a more religious celebration of Christmas Havana (Fides Service) - The Advent wreath with four candles one for each of the four weeks leading up to the great annual feast of the nativity is part of traditional preparation for Christmas in Cuba. Families gather t ...
• 16 December 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Bishops of Arizona, deeply saddened by the death and suffering of Mexican immigrants stress the need to find new ways for communities to welcome and integrate migrants Arizona (Fides Service) - “You Welcomed Me”: was the title of a Pastoral Letter on Migration released on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and developed and approved by the Arizona Catholic Conference and the Byzant ...
• 15 December 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration, Multicultural situation and Pastoral and Culture: 3rd national Congress January 2006 organised by Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Culture Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Mexico are promoting a National Congress on Migration, Multicultural Society and Pastoral and Culture in order to launch a process of pastoral sensitisation and comm ...
• 15 December 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 2006 Diocesan Year of Christian vocation and mission in Nueve de Julio Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - In order to foster spiritual and pastoral renewal and as part of five years of preparation for the 50th anniversary of its foundation Nueve de Julio diocese in Argentina has decided to make ...
• 14 December 2005
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “May the coming of God-made-Man encourage us to be signs and operators of communion among all. May we be better evangelisers and missionaries” says Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Guatemala Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Celebrations for Advent and Christmas must not be a reason for forgetting daily personal and social challenges, instead “we should strive to give this liturgical Season a more contempl ...
• 13 December 2005
  AMERICA/CHILE - “The Church must rekindle the people’s missionary spirit and encourage them to promote a culture of life” says President of CELAM, Cardinal Errázuriz Ossa Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - Speaking of themes be discussed at the 5th CELAM General Conference Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, archbishop of Santiago and President of Council of Latin American Bishops ...
• 13 December 2005
  AMERICA/PERU - “Boys and girls arise, listen, be nourished by the Eucharist. Start walking with Jesus!” theme of International Congress of Family Catechesis Animators in February Lima (Fides Service) - “Boys and girls arise, listen, be nourished by the Eucharist. Start walking with Jesus!” is the theme of International Congress of Family Catechesis Animators organised by the National Office f ...
• 12 December 2005
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Since the beginning of this year more than 19,000 Indigenous people have been forced to abandon their villages and land because of armed conflict: fear that whole native communities may disappear Bogota (Fides Service) - A recent report by the National Indigenous Organisation of Colombia (ONIC) said that since the beginning of this year the armed conflict which has continued for more than 20 years “has forced ...
• 10 December 2005
  AMERICA/MEXICO - World Ethics Forum 27 to 29 January in Mexico: reflect on major problems in society in the light of the dignity and transcendent destiny of every human person Madrid (Fides Service) - It was announced on 7 December in the Spanish capital Madrid that a World Ethics Forum will be held from 27 to 29 January in Mexico City and in ten other cities in Mexico involving 80 prominent w ...