a. This Missionary American Congress of year 2003 will have its own uniqueness in the context of Smallness, Poverty and Martyrdom that characterizes the pilgrim Church of the Central America peoples. This is why this congress wants to be a privileged occasion to propose a missionary evangelization not only for and with the little ones and poor, but also from them, and at the simultaneously finds ground that has been made fertile with the blood of their martyrs of yesterday and today.

b. The CAM2 - COMLA7 wants to offer the possibility that the ethnic diversity, and, in general, all the indigenous, afro-americans and the most excluded of the continent, have the opportunity to show us their faces: the expression of their pain and hope, and a proper space to attain a more fertile dialogue that animates decidedly the the inculturation of the Gospel from a missionary perspective.

c. Central America is the heart of the American continent and the bridge bridge that unites North America with South America. For this reason, the realisation of the Congress in Guatemala, is an opportunity so that the local Churches of the continent favour communion and effective solidarity, not only of the Central American and Caribbean countries and people, but of the entire continent from Canada to Patagonia. Likewise, the Congress should be an opportunity to suggest joint pastoral and life pathsways in order to pay attention to the complex phenomena of human migration, which as much challenges the eclessial communities as it does the majority of the peoples of our continent.

1) To share each local Churches' experience of personal encounter with Christ, in order to foster a profound inculturation of the Gospel.

2) To propose, from particular Churches, new paths in the proclamation of the Gospel of life for the building of the Reign of truth and of love.

3) To enliven the participation of the parish community as the most important cell of the particular Church in the mission ad gentes.

4) To energize the spirituality of the people of God from, in, and for mission.

5) To assume in our particular Churches the challenges of globalization, of cultures, of human migrations, of ecumenism, of new religious movements, and of inter-religious dialogue.

1. The encounter with living Christ: conversion, communion, solidarity.

2. The new paths for the proclamation of the Gospel of life.

3. The particular Church: responsible for mission.

4. Mission, life of the parish community.

5. Families, youth and children, protagonists of mission.

6. The spirituality of the people of God from, in, and for mission.

7. Mission in front of the challenges of globalization, of cultures, and of human migrations.

8. Mission in front of the challenges of fundamentalist groups, and of new religious movements.