America

• 2 March 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Family of lay Franciscans on mission to help alcoholics and to evangelise among Venezuelan youth Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A family on mission: this is the experience of Marco and Ilaria Petri, a married couple both lay Franciscans from Prato, Italy, who set out two months ago for mission in Venezuela, sent by the S ...
• 1 March 2004
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - “Conversion of heart and caring for little ones with love” is the Lenten message from the Bishops Nicaragua. Sunday 14 March collection for abandoned children Managua (Fides Service) - “We are deeply concerned to see children faint with hunger and severely undernourished; children wandering in the streets, victims of drugs and abuse by evil adults”, this is part of a Lente ...
• 1 March 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Situation still unsettled in Haiti after departure of President Aristide. Local eyewitness reports Port au Prince (Fides Service)- “Growing rumours began to circulate around midnight between Saturday and Sunday” Carlo Maria Zorzi representative of AVSI (Associazione di Volontariato per lo Sviluppo Internazionale) ...
• 27 February 2004
  AMERICA/CHILE - “If the Church in Latin America had not been enriched by the pastoral ministry of Pope John Paul II it would not be working to overcome its weaknesses, (mentioned by Paul VI at the end of the Council), it would not be so united in missionary activity and in building a more reconciled society more in keeping in every way with the Will of God”: Puebla 25 years on: a reflection by Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz, President of CELAM, Santiago (Fides Service) - On the occasion of 25th anniversary of the 3rd General Conference of the Latin American Bishops in 1979 at Puebla (Mexico), a recurrence which coincides with the 25th year of the pontificate o ...
• 27 February 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Caritas Haiti fears a humanitarian crisis as rebels approach the capital - The Bishops of the Church in America voice concern and solidarity with the people of Haiti Port au Prince (Fides Service) - “The ungovernable situation of insecurity and violence is having a disastrous effect on the country’s already precious economy” said Padre Wilnès Tilus, director of Caritas Haiti ( ...
• 24 February 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Church in Brazil starts annual Lenten “Fraternity Campaign” to evangelise in a spirit of conversion, interior renewal and community commitment Brasilia (Fides Service) - As the Season of Lent opens, the Church in Brazil embarks on its 40th “Fraternity Campaign which will be presented in Brasilia tomorrow, 25 February, Ash Wednesday at the head quarters of the ...
• 20 February 2004
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “A poor Church encourages us not to pass by the afflicted but to be pilgrims following the footsteps of Jesus the Good Shepherd” says President of CELAM closing celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the Puebla Conference Mexico City (Fides Service) - The closing act of celebrations 12-15 February in Puebla, Mexico for the 25th anniversary of the 3rd general conference of the Council of Latin American Bishop’s Conferences CELAM in Puebl ...
• 20 February 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Church in Brazil starts annual Lenten “Fraternity Campaign” to evangelise in a spirit of conversion, interior renewal and community commitment Brasilia (Fides Service) - As the Season of Lent opens, the Church in Brazil embarks on its 40th “Fraternity Campaign which will be presented in Brasilia tomorrow, 25 February, Ash Wednesday at the head quarters of the ...
• 19 February 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti’s Catholic Bishops plead: “take necessary measures to prevent a blood bath of civilians” Port au Prince (Fides Service)- “We appeal to the consciences of our governors to take the necessary measures to put an end to this situation and avoid a blood bath of civilians”. The Bishops of Haiti launched this a ...
• 18 February 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “We want a country without divisions, where everyone lives under the same conditions”: the Catholic Bishops of Peru address difficult national situation Lima (Fides Service) - The Bishops of Peru have voiced deep concern for increasing social-political deterioration and loss of moral values which provoke internal clashes, closure on the part of those with the serious r ...
• 18 February 2004
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “CAM 2 marked an unprecedented milestone in preparation and celebration this means we have entered a new era which we call, with an expression of John Paul II, “a great Christian springtime in the Church’s evangelising activity”. San Jose (Fides Service / CAM2 press office) - The 4th Central American Meeting for Pastoral Delegates taking place at San José di Costa Rica concludes today 18 February with a solemn celebration of Mass at the Basilica ...
• 17 February 2004
  AMERICA/PERU - “Increase efforts to guarantee ongoing, systematic missionary formation designed to meet the needs of mission today”: one of several commitments taken by diocesan and regional directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru. Lima (Fides Service) - “Increase efforts to guarantee ongoing, systematic missionary formation designed to meet the needs of mission today”: this was one of the conclusions reached by a national meeting for diocesan ...
• 17 February 2004
  AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian emergency in Haiti: “260,000 people including 80,000 children have no food”. Dramatic report from Carlo Maria Zorzi AVSI representative in Haiti Port au Prince (Fides Service) - The dramatic situation in Haiti is described in a report sent to Fides by Carlo Maria Zorzi, representative in Haiti of Association of Volunteer International Service (AVSI). Here is our ...
• 14 February 2004
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 4th Central American Meeting for vicars of pastoral and diocesan delegates for missions will outline pastoral plans suited to implement the conclusions of the Second American Mission Congress (CAM 2) San Jose (Fides Service) - “Offer a theological-pastoral interpretation of CAM2 to highlight the more significant elements and the pastoral dynamics which should animate mission ad gentes in Central America in the comi ...
• 10 February 2004
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - “It is Not Possible to be Living Members of the Body of Christ and Accomplices in Methods of Abortion”: Catholic Bishop of Honduras issue severe warning Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) – The Catholic Bishops of Honduras have firmly condemned a campaign to promote and distribute the day after pill undertaken by the Honduras Association for Family Planning ASHONPLAFA and the ...