America

• 2 April 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “To protect life is a duty for everyone ”: Catholic Bishops of Venezuela launch appeal in the face of a national crisis Caracas (Fides Service) - Profound concern for the serious situation which threatens to destroy peace in Venezuela was expressed by the Conference of Venezuelan Bishops at the end of its 31st special assembly on March 30 ...
• 1 April 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Materialism, violence and permissiveness are the most dangerous threats to the family. Cardinal Martino speaks at the conclusion og the 3rd World Congress for Families Mexico City (Fides Service) - “The family is the key to the future of humanity. Every people aspiring to strengthen its soul and to guarantee itself a more human future of justice and solidarity must undoubtedly streng ...
• 30 March 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Poverty which afflicts entire peoples and nations, focus of the first day of a pastoral visit to Mexico by Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Mexico City (Fides Service) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato R. Martino, is in Mexico for a week long pastoral visit 28 March 2 - April 2 to take part in important church a ...
• 27 March 2004
  DOSSIER AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Guerrilla and paramilitary are causing irreparable damage to Columbia using children in fighting: more than 11,000 says Human Rights Watch. Bogota (Fides Service) - Although international law used to prohibit the use of minors under 15 in war (Geneva Convention 1949 and the Convention on Children’s Rights 1989) and since 2000 the age is 18, all the irregul ...
• 27 March 2004
  DOSSIER AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Children involved in armed combat, are not only subject to maltreatment and abuse they are also targets for assassins”: National Pontifical Mission Societies Director in Colombia told Fides. Bogota (Fides Service) - “In the first two months of this year, according to General Ospina, army chief commander, 44 children were killed in combat: 19 belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), 5 ...
• 26 March 2004
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 101 child workers rescued from heavy labour at refuse dumps: Santo Domingo de los Colorados city council committed to eliminate child labour Quito (Fides Service) - It is estimated that between 500 and 1000 children in Ecuador, aged 5 to 7, are employed in collecting and handling refuse. In its Convention number 182 the International Labour Organisation lists ...
• 25 March 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - National Day of the Unborn Child: “Love, the Cradle of Life ”. Bogota (Fides Service) - On the feast of the Annunciation, the liturgical commemoration of the Incarnation of the Son of God, the Church in Colombia celebrated a National Day for the Unborn Child. The objective of the Da ...
• 25 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Protect life at every stage, combat any danger which threatens the life of the unborn child”: Peruvian Bishops’ Family Commission issues message for ‘Day for the Unborn Child’ Lima (Fides Service) - “Catholics must be aware of their duty to protect life at every stage and to combat any danger which threatens the life of the unborn child”. This affirmation was made by the Bishops of Peru in ...
• 23 March 2004
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Promoting a spirit of communion and formation for young people: objectives for Meeting of Diocesan Youth Pastoral Delegates in Colombia Santafe de Bogota (Fides Service) - A Meeting of Diocesan Youth Pastoral Delegates in Colombia organised by the Sector for Youth and Childhood of the Colombian Bishops Conference (CEC) opens today March 23 at the Confere ...
• 23 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - Many of Peru’s children live in difficult conditions: poverty, child labour, child soldiers, domestic abuse: Doris Portocarrero, directress of Peru’s National Initiative Group for Children’s Rights speaks to Fides Lima (Fides Service) -More than half of the population and 62% of the children in Peru live with a dollar a day, according to a report by the United Nations Development Programme UNDP. What is more, 20% of the population ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Render operative principle lines of evangelisation in Brazil: one of the most important objectives of the 6th Meeting of Organisms of the People of God Brasilia (Fides Service) - Promoted and organised by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil, CNBB, in co-ordination with the Organisms of the People of God, from 26 to 28 March at the SESC Venda Nuova at Belo Hori ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Lord, show me your way!” is the slogan of the Inculturation Work Shop for missionaries in the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas: knowing and valorising Amazon regional myths to integrate them in the work of evangelisation Indiana (Fides Service ) - From 11 to 14 March in Indiana (Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas) an Inculturation Work Shop for missionaries was held in the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas with the ...
• 17 March 2004
  AMERICA/USA - Iraqi Christians in the United States: a community spiritually united and strong Rome (Fides Service)- “It was a joy to see the community so spiritually united and strong” Iraqi Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, from Ninive diocese in Iraq told Fides after a recent visit to Catholics in the Un ...
• 16 March 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dialogue, tolerance, truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation are values needed for rebuilding the nation and respect for institutions: Catholic Bishops of Haiti issue message to the people. Port au Prince (Fides Service) - Concerned at the situation of spreading poverty and insecurity despite the presence of foreign troops, which provokes violence, revenge, hatred which like in a nightmare strike repeatedly ...
• 16 March 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Children are the central focus and the first addressees of our evangelising mission”, says Bishop José Luis Mollaghan, Bishop of San Miguel. San Miguel (Fides Service) - In line with the call launched by John Paul II to put at the centre of Lenten reflection this year the tragic conditions of many children in the world, Bishop José Luis Mollaghan, Bishop of ...