America

• 18 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - MISSION SUNDAY: “WITH MARY, OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHRIST’S MISSION”, 42.000 STUDENTS ANIMATE PRO MISSION COLLECTIONS Lima (Fides Service ) – “With Mary open your heart to Christ’s Mission” was the slogan chosen for World Mission Sunday 2003 by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru in collaboration with the Peruvian Ca ...
• 17 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - MISSION SUNDAY – CATHOLICS MUST REALISE THAT LIFE IS MISSION, IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM LIFE IN MISSION AND TO GIVE LIFE TO MISSION Brasilia (Fides Service) – In a message for Mission Sunday 2003 entitled “The Church and the Missions in the 21st Century”, Father Daniel Lagni, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, say ...
• 14 October 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: “CHURCH IN BRAZIL YOUR VOCATION IS MISSION ”: LIVING MISSION SUNDAY WITH AWARENESS Sao Paulo (Fides Service) – In Brazil world Mission Sunday promoted by the national Pontifical Mission Societies office is celebrated in close collaboration with the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference. “We start our mis ...
• 13 October 2003
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTERS: 22 KILLED IN EL ALTO CITY, AT LEAST 60 INJURED IN THE ANTI-GAS WAR AGAINST THE GOVERNEMNT PLAN TO EXPORT NATURAL GAS Rome (Fides Service) – At least 22 people were killed and at least 60 injured in clashes between police and protesters in uprisings which have bloodied Bolivia for the past 48 hours, in particular in the capita, La Paz ...
• 13 October 2003
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 12,885 CASES OF DENGUE: INFECTION SPREADING, CONCERN FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE RAINS START? Rome (Fides Service) – Costa Rican Health Ministry recently communicated alarming developments in the epidemic of Dengue in Costa Rica. Of 12,885 cases of infection reported, 38 are suffering from acute haemorrhage fev ...
• 9 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - ROSARY AND MISSION: COURSE ON MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION WITH MARY AS MODEL Lima (Fides Service) – “The Holy Rosary and Mission” is the theme of a course in Missionary Spirituality and Formation which will be held 5-7 November in Lima at the Auditorium of the Conference of Major Superiors ...
• 8 October 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - SYMPOSIUM AT UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK TO MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PACEM IN TERRIS BY JOHN XXII AND THE 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF JOHN PAUL II. SERVITOR PACIS PRIZE AWARDED TO LATE DR. CARLO URBANI AND TO MOTHER TERESA’S MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY New York (Fides Service) – “It is ever more opportune to consider the valuable indications offered by Pacem in Terris in front of the necessity, once again so urgent, to clarify the figure of world public powers. Par ...
• 6 October 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - “THE HOLY FATHER IS THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF THE WELCOMING FATHER WHO RECEIVES THE PRODIGAL SON HE IS THE FORTRESS OF THE MARTYR, HE IS THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: CARD. CIPRIANI AT THE END OF THE “ROSARY FOR THE POPE PAPA” FOR WHICH THOUSANDS GATHERED IN THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL Lima (Fides Service) – Thousands of faithful prayed yesterday Sunday 5 October in Piazza Maggiore in Lima (Peru), on the occasion of the closing of the year of the Rosary called by John Paul II and the recurrence of th ...
• 3 October 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A LIFE DEDICATED STUDY AND RESEARCH TO HELP THE HELPLESS, FIDES MET DR KEVIN CAHILL Rome (Fides Service) – Professor Kevin Cahill is a major world expert in tropical diseases. He recently published a book on his years of experience in some of the poorest areas of the world in which he says that the mo ...
• 1 October 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - COMBONI MISSIONARIES AND THE MEDIA: “WE HAVE EARNED READERS WHO KNOW THEY FIND IN OUR PUBLICATIONS INFORMATION THAT THEY CANNOT FIND ELSEWHERE” Mexico City (Fides Service) – On 21 May 1871 in a letter to the Bishop of Verona Daniele Comboni, the great evangeliser of Africa, said that since January 1 that year he had written no less than 1,347 letters to friend ...
• 29 September 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL – VIGOROUS DEFENCE OF LIFE, PROMOTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND FAMILY VALUES: BRAZIL’S BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE FOR JOHN PAUL II Brasilia (Fides Service) – In a Message to the People of God dated 25 September 2003 to mark the occasion of the 25th year of Pontificate of Pope John Paul II”, the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Brazil CNBB e ...
• 25 September 2003
  AMERICA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN CONGRESS MISSION (CAM 2) WORKING PAPER: A UNITARY PATH OF ANIMATION FOR LOCAL CHURCHES Guatemala City (Fides Service) – The Central Commission for CAM 2 has prepared a working paper for distribution to dioceses, parishes, associations as a guide for preparing contributions from particular Churches all o ...
• 23 September 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - SCRIPTURE SOURCE AND MODEL OF PRAYER AND EVANGELISATION: MEETING OF LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN CATHOLIC BIBLE FEDERATION Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – As part of celebrations for Bible Month in Chile, the Cono Sur Latin American and Caribbean Bible Federation will hold its 6th Meeting of 29 September 3 October in Santiago de Chile, ...
• 23 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – EVEN HIGH IN PERUVIAN ANDES MISSION CALL SOUNDS: ABANCAY HOLDS FIRST MISSION CONGRESS AFTER YEAR OF PREPARATION Abancay (Fides Service ) – Missionary zeal is spreading all over America even high in the Peruvian Andes Mountains, stirring new mission awareness among the native peoples. From 2 to 5 October 2003 Abancay will hold it ...
• 22 September 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – CALENDAR OF EVENTS, CONGRESS HANDBOOK, CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSIONARY PROJECT FOCUS OF WORK MEETING Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – A preparatory meeting for CAM 2, organised by CELAM Department for Missions and Spirituality – Section Mission ad gentes, held at the offices of the Council of Latin American Bishops, CELAM i ...