America

• 5 November 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “IN A PLURALIST SOCIETY MINORITY GROUPS MUST EXPRESS THEMSELVES WITH RESPECT FOR THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT OF THE MAJORITY”: SOLIDARITY WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AFTER INSULTS AND OFFENSIVE PAINTINGS ON THE CATHEDRAL WALLS ON NOVEMBER 1 Buenos Aires (Fides Service) – Several statements have reached Fides Service, expressing unanimous condemnation of offence against the Catholic community in Argentina on 1 November. During a civil rights march organise ...
• 31 October 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “PEACE BEGINS AT HOME, PEACEFUL CONSTITUTIONAL AND ELECTORAL SOLUTION URGENT” SAY BISHOPS OF VENEZUELA Rome (Fides Service) – “Venezuela is experiencing a profound political crisis, the country needs urgently a peaceful, constitutional and electoral solution” . This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of ...
• 31 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - 20,000 JOIN “MARIAN MISSIONARY MARCH” IN THANKSGIVING FOR 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE Arequipa (Fides Service) – The Church all over the world continues to Celebrate the 25 years of the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II. In Peru, the archdiocese of Arequipa with the diocesan Office of the Pontifical Miss ...
• 31 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – NATIONAL PRAYER NOVENA 14 TO 22 NOVEMBER, TO INVOKE THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE GREAT MISSIONARY EVENT Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “As in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, with Mary let us implore the gift of the Holy Spirit for the American Mission Congress”. This is the call issued by the central organising commit ...
• 28 October 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – PROGRAMME FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY INTERVENTION NOW COMPLETE: ALMOST READY CONGRESS HANDBOOK AND CENTRAL-AMERICAN MISSION PLAN Bogota (Fides Service) – The organisation and programme for the celebration of the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM2, which the organisers hope will be a truly “Mission event for the Church in America”, is now com ...
• 25 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “SUFFERING A VOCATION TO SERVE”: FOR AN INTEGRAL AND HUMANISED VISION OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING Santiago de Chile (Fides Service ) – As part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Catholic University Hospital in Santiago de Chile and the Year of Vocations called by the Catholic Church in Chile, the Hosp ...
• 25 October 2003
  AMERICA/CUBA - APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO CUBA TAKES LEAVE TO ASSUME APPOINTMENT AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICA. Havana (Fides Service) – On 25 October Archbishop Luis Robles Diaz took leave of the Island of Cuba, where he had been Apostolic Nuncio since Marchy 6, 1999, to take office in the Vatican as vice president of the Ponti ...
• 24 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - HUNDRED THOUSAND YOUNG PILGRIMS: SACRIFICES AND PRAYERS FOR POPE JOHN PAUL II’s HEALTH AND MINISTRY ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECTION TO THE SEE OF PETER Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – United with Catholics all over the world in celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate some 100.000 Chilean youth will make a pilgrimage on Saturday 25 ...
• 23 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHRIST MY FRIEND, YOU CAN RELY ON ME”: HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF MISSIONARY YOUTH IN GUATEMALA SENT TO PROCLAIM JESUS CHRIST AT HOME, AT SCHOOL, AT WORK Guatemala City (Fides Service) - Hundreds of members of Missionary Youth in Guatemala were encouraged to proclaim Jesus Christ to their peers during the special Mass for Mission Sunday on 19 October, at the Eucharistic S ...
• 23 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE CELEBRATES 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE: JUBILEE MASSES AT BRASILIA CATHEDRAL; BISHOPS’ WEB SITE SPECIAL JUBILEE SECTION Brasilia (Fides Service) – To celebrate the 25th Year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) planned two special Jubilee Masses: at the National Marian Shrine of Apare ...
• 22 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – HUNDREDS OF LOCAL FAMILIES PREPARE TO WELCOME CAM2 PARTICIPANTS IN THEIR HOMES Guatemala City (Fides Service) – Biblical hospitality which characterised the Latin American Misisonary Congresses held in various in the past years, will be seen again on the occasion of CAM 2 this coming November. Hu ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - PÉREZ DE CUELLAR TELLS FIDES: “THE HOLY FATHER’S GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS PEACE AT THE POLITICAL DIPLOMATIC LEVEL IS THAT AS A PERSON HE IS A PERMANENT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO PEACE” Lima (Fides Service) - Among the many personalities in Rome to take part in celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate there was also Ambassador Javier Pérez De Cuellar, charged by the Peru ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/UN - PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN. ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE HOLY SEE PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSES GENERAL ASSEMBLY New York (Fides Service) – “The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force in September 1990. That same month, a World Summit for Children was held to adopt the Declaration on the Survival, Protectio ...
• 21 October 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PREPARATION FOR CAM2 AND MISSION YEAR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON MISSION AMONG THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL AMERICA SAY PMS NATIONAL DIRECTORS Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “The fact that we have assumed responsibility both for the preparation of CAM 2 and for the celebration of Mission Year has united us all the more and given us the chance to engage in c ...
• 20 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - A MONTH OF CULTURAL EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – For the whole month of October the Church in Chile has organised a series of events to celebrate the 25 years of Pope John Paul II pontificate’s. The events are organised jointly b ...