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9 July 2004
AMERICA/CHILE - Italian priest Fr Oreste Benzi in Chile to protect the rights of the Mapuche indigenous people.
Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 21 August 2004 the community of Rev. Oreste Benzi (Association John XXIII) will open a camp in Chile.
The main objective is to investigate the situation of the Mapuche Indios living in s ...
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9 July 2004
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The local Church calls for a transparent and credible referendum: “We must overcome division and polarisation which have provoked radical reciprocal mistrust” says President of Bishops’ Conference
Caracas (Fides Service) - With an opening discourse by Archbishop Baltazar E. Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of Mérida, the 82nd Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference July 7-13 opened in Caracas. Reflecti ...
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8 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The armed groups realise they can never dissuade us in our commitment to oppose violence, indeed we are even more determined and united with the people who are with us and know we are with them and for them”. Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza of Valledupar interviewed by Fides.
Rome (Fides Service) - At least 35,000 dead in 40 years of fighting. Fides asked Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza C.M.F., Bishop of the diocese of Valledupar, for testimony on the situation of violence and bloodshed in Co ...
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8 July 2004
AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found stabbed to death at his home near his parish at Ciudad Juarez
Ciudad Juarez (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Father Ramon Navarrete Islas, aged 56, was found dead at his home near the parish where he worked in Ciudad Juarez a town near the Mexican border with the United States. ...
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7 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Church deeply committed to education: instil a mentality of peace, justice and truth in the new generations. Colombia’s first virtual University has 2,000 students
Rome (Fides Service) - "The Church in Colombia has always worked hard in the field of education providing a Christian education based on the values of the Gospel at all levels facilitated by the fact that Colombia has a ...
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7 July 2004
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Justice and charity. Facing Future Challenges: Jewish-Catholic relations in the 21st century”: International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee meeting in Buenos Aires:
Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee started its 18th meeting on July 5 in Buenos Aires, on the theme “Tzedek and Tzedaká (Justice and Charity). Facing Future Challenges: ...
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6 July 2004
AMERICA/PERU - “Reawaken and strengthen faith and missionary witness of young Peruvians to help them respond with greater generosity and courage to the challenges of new evangelisation”: about 2,000 young people expected to take part in 3rd National Youth Mission Congress in Arequipa.
Arequipa (Fides Service) -Arequipa, Peru’s “white city” will host from 4 - 8 August at San Jose College the 3rd National Youth Mission Congress with the slogan “Young person your life is mission!”. To reawaken ...
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6 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops, shepherd of God’s people have “the duty to look at the signs of the times in the reality of the country and to take care to illuminate, on the basis of faith, the situations in which the people of God live”. Bishops’ Conference plenary discusses Problems and challenges of Colombian society
Bogota (Fides Service) - “Evangelisation and Christian Initiation” is the theme of a plenary assembly of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference opened yesterday 5 July at the Conference’s offices in Bogota. Cardinal P ...
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5 July 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Every day eight children become orphans because their parents (31% aged 18-24) are killed in violence
Rome (Fides Service) - In 2003, at least 2,895 children in Rio de Janeiro, eight every day were orphaned becuase of violence, of these 83% were children or adolescents. This was said by the Brazilian daily “O Globo” ...
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2 July 2004
AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops’ statement with regard to economic measures decided by governments of Cuba and the United States
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides has just received a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops of Cuba dated 26 May 2004 (Year of the Family in Cuba). Here is our English translation of the statement:
Concerned by ...
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1 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Disciples of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church, missionaries of hope for new evangelisation of Latin America and the Caribbean at the dawn of the Third Millennium”: Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences will hold 5th General Assembly in Rome in 2007
Bogota (Fides Service) - La Presidency of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM announced that Pope John Paul II has granted its request to convoke the 5th General Assembly of the Council of Latin Am ...
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1 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Carmelite missionaries mark 50 years of presence in Tumaco
Tumaco (Fides Service) - The first group of discalsed Carmelite missionaries from Navarra in Spain made its official entry in Tumaco on June 28 1954. The then Apostolic Prefecture covered a vast area of 18,000 sq. km in ...
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1 July 2004
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Sexual exploitation main form of slavery in the 21st century”: subject of a videoconference at American Embassy to the Holy See
Rome (Fides Service)- Sexual exploitation is the main form of slavery in the 21st century and the United States is determined with the help of other countries to fight this turbid trade. This emerged from a video confere ...
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30 June 2004
AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez of Cuzco, in Rome to receive the Pallium: “Our peoples hunger for God! Our priests are scarce we cannot reach all our people. Religious sects take the opportunity to make new members ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Receiving the Pallium from the hands of Pope John Paul II is doubly significant, firstly because the Pallium is a sign of the mission with which we are entrusted , that is to be Shepherd ...
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26 June 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 500 years of evangelisation or 500 years of slavery? Colombian Bishops concern for project which threatens to undermine the evangelisation of indigenous peoples
Rome (Fides Service - “We face the concerning phenomenon of the penetration of certain ideologies which claim to defend the indigenous peoples, but in fact manipulate them" Archbishop Iván Antonio Marín López, Arch ...
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