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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - State of emergency extended due to Coronavirus: between uncertainty and worry, missionaries do not stop Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "In the province many villages have been completely closed. The cathedral is closed in Chiangmai as well as all schools. There was also an outbreak in the interdiocesan seminary, 11 seminarians ...
• 27 July 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Women pray that the sun never goes down, because jihadists attack during the night" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The women of the community pray that the sun, the light, remain as long as possible because now they are afraid of darkness", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: "the sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, illegal and arbitrary, has caused irreparable damage to the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, according to authoritative men and women of law, was illegal and arbitrary. We embrace the protest of citizens in warning that this fact indi ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - During the Olympic Games marked by the pandemic, the urgency is "to take care of oneself and others" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "The most widespread attitude among the population of Japan was the request to cancel or postpone the Olympics, due to the pandemic, for fear of an increase in infections. The situation we are exp ...
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  27 July 2021
  AFRICA/TUNISIA: The President suspends the government and takes all powers. Archbishop Antoniazzi: "the population supports him" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed to suspend the legislature and assume full powers "was welcomed with relief by the majority of the population, exhausted by a situation that seemed ...
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  26 July 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops of Veracruz: "Lawmakers have an ethical obligation to be well informed and to listen to the cry of those who elected them" Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Bishops of the eight dioceses of Veracruz contemplate with dismay the path that some legislators have just taken in favor of the culture of death", they write in their message, si ...
• 26 July 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Bishops. "It is never too late to stop the violence, the only way forward is peace and reconciliation" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "It saddens our hearts hearing about war while we all would like to hear about peace and reconciliation", said Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) in a statement published at t ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Catholic community offers itself in the care of Covid patients and notes the sacrifice of the first Catholic priest Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Boniface Murmu, 66-year-old parish priest of the parish of Lohanipara in the diocese of Dinajpur is the first Catholic priest who died on July 10 from Covid-19, which hit Bangladesh hard. His ...
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  26 July 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Your mask protects me, mine protects you": the warning of missionaries alarmed by the spread of Covid-19 Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The use of the mask as a tool to protect against Coronavirus is essential, even if it is very uncomfortable to wear for a long time during the day. It serves to protect myself and others", ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Thirty-four new priests from the diocese of Vinh, who will also be 'fidei donum' missionaries in other territories Vinh (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a day of great joy, a day of great blessing in the diocese of Vinh, which rejoices for 34 new ordained priests who will also be missionaries, where the Lord will call them to proclaim and be ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: a new government is needed by August 4. But the "Mikati solution" does not convince Christian political leaders Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Everything possible must be done to give birth to a new Lebanese government by August 4, the day on which the first anniversary of the terrible explosion that devastated the Port of Beirut almost ...
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  26 July 2021
  VATICAN - Universal prayer for Lebanon, consecrated to the Virgin Mary: 11 thousand connected online Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Lord, we consecrate to your heart and to the Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Lebanon, the Lebanese people and our leaders, our families, the suffering, all those in need. Donate to the Lebanese ...
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  24 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Breaking the circle of human trafficking: "care can make a difference" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The global network Talitha Kum, — which gathers more than 3,000 Catholic sisters and collaborators, launches the #CareAgainstTrafficking campaign in view of the World Day against Trafficking in P ...
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  24 July 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Young people, "creative evangelizers" during the time of the pandemic Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - May young people be "creative evangelizers" during the time of the pandemic: this is the invitation expressed by Msgr. John Wong, Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, speaking at the "Sabah 5" You ...
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  24 July 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The religious of the Society of African Missions launch a new project to help children go back to school Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in contact with the rural areas of the diocese of Niamey, in particular with the two areas most affected by terrorism: Makalondi, on the border with Burkina Faso and Dolbel, a region on t ...