“A sign of vitality in ministry to our Hispanic communities is the ever growing numbers of laity in need of learning and deepening their knowledge of one’s faith, a crystal-clear sign for us to continue offering sound and quality services throughout every ministry within the Church. This ever present need is the reason why and how many new educational services have been brought to life in every region of the country. The challenges are indeed varied and many for anybody to deal with them in isolated ways. That is why FIP [Federation of Pastoral Institutes] came into being. FIP‘s mission is to offer excellent faith formation services to our Hispanic communities en route to God.”

-Bishop Felipe J. Estevez

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President's Corner
New Episcopal Liaison FIP: Bishop Arturo Cepeda, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit

Reynaldo Montemayor Jr. PhL.January 8, 2012

Your Excellency,

On behalf of the national Federación de Institutos Pastorales (FIP), I welcome and thank you for accepting to be our new Episcopal Liaison to the USCCB. We are grateful to Archbishop Vigneron for his support by letting you serve the Church and our organization in this role. | read more

Press Release

Press ReleaseBISHOPS ANNOUNCE GUIDELINES FOR INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN MINISTRY

New Evangelization, unity in diversity common thread of guidelines

Connecting Catholic identity with cultural diversity key to re-proposing the faith.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Cultural Diversity presented its guidelines on intercultural competence for ecclesial ministers at a special evening session to more than 40 bishops, staff and guests on Sunday, November 13, 2001, ahead of the bishops' General Meeting in Baltimore The project took shape over the past three years in response to the bishops' pastoral priority on recognition of the cultural diversity in the church. | read more


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